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Quality Assurance in Higher Education - Albania - Yerevan, 4-5 June 2007

Quality Assurance in Higher Education - Albania - Yerevan, 4-5 June 2007. Dhurata BOZO Director Accreditation Agency for Higher Education. Presentation Outlines. Higher Education Institutions and Programmes QA and Accreditation Institutions Accreditation Agency: statistics

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Quality Assurance in Higher Education - Albania - Yerevan, 4-5 June 2007

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  1. Quality Assurance in Higher Education-Albania-Yerevan, 4-5 June 2007 Dhurata BOZO Director Accreditation Agency for Higher Education

  2. Presentation Outlines • Higher Education Institutions and Programmes • QA and Accreditation Institutions • Accreditation Agency: statistics • Relations with HEI and Students • Perspective • Lessons Learned

  3. A - Higher Education System in Albania • Public HEIs 13 • 3 main HEIs in Tirana • 3 academies • 1 military HEI • 5 regional HEIs (+1) • 200 programmes • Private(?) HEIs 15 (+??) • 13 domestic • 2 cross-border&joint • >70 HE programmes

  4. A - Higher Education Programmes

  5. B - Accreditation System in Albania • Accreditation Agency for HE (AAHE) • Evaluation (periodic, analitical, comparative) • Procedure, criteria, requirements, peers • Evaluation results • Publication • Accreditation Council (AC) • Recomendations to Government • Decision on procedures, criteria, standards • Appeal • Council for Higher Education and Science (CHES) • Recomendations to Government • Decision on procedures, criteria, standards • Appeal • Ministry & Government • Formal decision (yes, no, conditional)

  6. B - Evaluation in HE - Procedure • Application • Approval of request and timeframe • Self-evaluation (se): se team and se folder • External evaluation (ee):ee peers, ee report • Training of se and ee teams • Foreign experts • Evaluation result • Decision • Publication of results (reports) and decisions

  7. B- Evaluation in HE Evaluation Types • Institutional: initial, periodic • Programme: initial, periodic, • Mix or intermediate • Analitical: general policy reasons, leads also to…  • Comparative: ranking or customer protection and/or information purposes

  8. B-Evaluation in HEInstitutional, Programme Evaluation or both? • Past: programme evaluation at department level • Present: shift to intermediate (or mix) evaluation • Initial: programme level • Periodic: institutional less focusing at programme level • Near Future: mainly institutional but focus on Internal Quality Assurance in HEIs • Future: Quality Audit

  9. C – Accreditation Agency • Evaluation: process, procedure, peer team, follow up, appeal • Reporting: periodical, analitical, comparative • Publication • System-wide analysis; comparative ev. • Collaboration with HEIs for Internal Quality Assurance

  10. C – AAHEStatistics: evaluations since 2001 (1)

  11. C – AAHEStatistics: HEI evaluated programmes (2)

  12. C – AAHE Statistics: HEI evaluated departments (3)

  13. C – AAHE Statistics: evaluations 2001-2007 (4)

  14. C – AAHE Statistics: experts involvement (5)

  15. C – AAHE Statistics: budget data 2001-2007 (6)

  16. C – AAHE Statistics: 2ndaryfundings (7)

  17. D – AAHE Students Involvement • Factors ; not active actors • Interviewed ; not interviewers • Occasional; not the rule • ENQA – SG : New Higher Education Law • Students rights inside HEI • Internal Quality Assurance: factors and actors • External Quality Assurance: members of peer review teams, interviewers and feed back-ers • Consumers and peers of other HE services

  18. D – AAHE Relations with HEIs • Trust, transparence, collaboration and cooperation • Internal Quality Assurance System • HEI feed back: external evaluation process •  Quality Culture (HEI) •  Quality Audit (AAHE)

  19. AAHE Networking • INQAAHE : full member 2002 • CEE Network : full member 2003 • EAIE - individual membership – 2004 • ENQA - intending to apply- selfevaluation process (below) • ECA - cooperation agreement (CEE – Network) - 2006

  20. E- Perspective • National Level: • New Higher Education Act – QA ridesign • More foreign experts and expertise involvement • HEIs and Student feed back - institutionalisation • QA for QA System • A more close collaboration with HEIs for Internal QA in HEIs • International Level: • ENQA: SG – How AAHE knows its work? • Selfevaluation – ESG (ENQA), GGP (INQAAHE), GQPCE (UNESCO) • Selfcheck analysis (see below) • Self-evaluation report • External evaluation from ENQA (Register??)

  21. Selfcheck Analysis(1)

  22. Selfcheck Analysis(2)

  23. Selfcheck Analysis(3)

  24. Selfcheck Analysis(4)

  25. F – Lessons Learned • Publicity and follow-up is equally/more impacting as/than accreditation decision • More respect for HEI’ authonomy: more realiable, collaborative and objective is the evaluation outcome • Less burocracy: more efficiency and effectivity for EQA • More flexibility: more acceptance and reliability for EQA • More institutional: more acceptance and impacting on HEIs • Foreign expertise and peers: crucial for small countries • Shift gradually to an output approach-students at the focus • Student feed-back is not simply an added value: it is as valuable as peers findings and more impacting on HEIs

  26. International Guidelines: ESG for QA in EHEA

  27. International Guidelines: UNESCO Guidelines for Quality Priovision in Cross- border Education

  28. Accreditation Agency for Higher EducationAddress: Rr. “L. Dukagjini”, Nr.5, Tirana, AlbaniaTel. & Fax: + 355 4 257 954/266 302E-mail: aaal@albmail.comWeb site: www.aaal.edu.al Thank you

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