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> Higher Education Newsletter
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> 03/18/2002
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> Number 17
> ACCREDITATION POLICIES
> In recent decades, university policies
> have been conditioned by the need to introduce the
> concept of Accountability . This new philosophy,
> which has now appeared throughout the public sector,
> has modified the idea of university autonomy and
> introduced the need for evaluating policies in the
> higher education area.
> National evaluation plans and the
> quality system have been introduced with the aim of
> improving the service that universities offer to
> society. However, diversification in the university
> system and the progressive internationalisation of
> the higher education space require both official
> approval of qualifications and accreditation of
> studies. These needs are highlighted in the Bologna
> Declaration
>
>
(http://www.universia.es/contenidos/universidades/documentos/Universidades_docum_bolonia.htm).
>
> The aim of the accreditation system is
> to detect whether any university is below the
> required quality standard. Accreditation means
> conceding to higher education institutions the right
> to award degrees of comparable quality according to
> criteria that take into account the knowledge
> acquired and professional competence.
>
> The United States has a long tradition
> of accreditation going back more than a hundred
> years. The objective is to achieve an improvement in
> university quality by way of providing quality
> guarantees and complementing the institutions'
> internal evaluations with external checks. Higher
> education institutions study their own performances
> with the aim of improving quality and are then
> visited by external experts who produce a final
> report. In this second phase, the part played by
> regional or thematic accreditation agencies is very
> important.
> We recommend a visit to the
> accreditation section of the Office of
> Post-Secondary Education website which shows all the
> regulations concerned along with an account of the
> country's accreditation agencies, both regional and
> thematic.
>
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/accreditation/accredus.html
>
>
> The European Commission has made a
> commitment to take steps towards recognising
> professional qualifications in countries belonging
> to the European
>
Union.http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/education/rec_qual_en.html).
> The most significant step is the document Towards
> Accreditation Schemes for Higher Education in
> Europe? which was published in May 2001 as the
> result of a CRE (European Rectors' Conference)
> project and applied in the Socrates programme as a
> complementary measure
>
(http://www.unige.ch/cre/activities/accreditation/accreditation_home.htm).
>
> The European Commission's Leonardo
> programme was created to facilitate job finding, to
> improve the quality of and access to training and to
> contribute towards innovation in vocational
> training. The programme's second phase, initiated in
> 2000, saw the promotion of the project to create a
> European agency for accreditation of engineering
>
studies.http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/education/leonardo/leonardo2_en.html).
>
> Within Europe, there has been a gradual
> promotion of initiatives such as the European
> Euroguidance network
> (http://www.euroguidance.org.uk/), the European
> accreditation organism, the European Agency for
> Quality Assurance in Higher Education
> (http://www.enqa.net/index.html) along with national
> agencies which continue to be those mainly
> responsible for advancing accreditation mechanisms
> in higher education
>
institutions.http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/education/leonardo/leonardo2/naweb_en.html).
>
>
> One interesting case is that of the
> University of Delft in The Netherlands which, on the
> basis of a system of quality evaluation, has been
> working on international accreditation mechanisms
> for its
>
programmes.http://www.tudelft.nl/matrix/home.cfm?usertype=english).
> The University of Delft is presently accredited in
> the United States by the agency ABET
> (http://www.abet.org/)
>
> Other international accreditation
> experiences are those of voluntary networks
> established between universities. There is an
> increasing tendency towards this type of
> accreditation between universities as well as new
> degrees and diplomas. Such is the case of the
> European Consortium of Innovative Universities
> (http://www.eciu.org/) which was created by eleven
> European universities with the aims of sharing their
> more innovative experiences and constructing an
> Entrepreneurial University.
>
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> By M. Àngels Cortina Cunill, Global
> University Network for Innovation (GUNI)
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> HIGHER EDUCATION AGENDA
>
> a.. 16-19 March 2002. American
> Association for Higher Education. 2002 National
> Conference on Higher Education, Chicago, Illinois
> (http://www.aahe.org/nche/2002/)
>
> b.. 17-20 March 2002. 7th
> Interamerican Conference on Engineering and
> Technology Education "Engineering Education and
> Technology in the new Paradigma of Global Society".
> Santos, Brazil. Mail to: [log in to unmask]
> c.. 25-26 March 2002. Seminar on
> Internationalisation and Institutional Governance in
> co-operation with Hogeschool van Amsterdam,
> Amsterdam, Netherlands. (www.oecd.org/els/education
> /higher/)
>
> d.. 26-29, March 2002. Novosibirsk,
> Russia, Education Siberia-2002, 10th Anniversary
> event. Further details can be found on:
> http://www.sibfair.ru
>
> e.. 8-10 April 2002. 10th Annual AUA
> National Conference, Southampton,
> (http://www.aua2002.soton.ac.uk/index.htm)
>
> f.. 12-13 April 2002. Lyon,
> Rhöne-Alpes, France. Theme: Internationalisation of
> Higher Education: Policy and Practice.
> http://www.unesco.org/iau/lyon-conference.html
>
> g.. 17-19, April 2002. NSCHEMS
> Management Seminars, National Center for Higher
> Education Management Systems, Williamsburg,
> Virginia,
>
(http://www.nchems.org/Seminars/April_2002_seminars.htm).
>
>
> h.. 19-20 April 2002. Roskilde,
> Denmark, Roskilde University. " Autonomy and Quality
> - the Challenge for Institutions".
> http://www.unige.ch/eua/
> i.. 26-29 May 2002. International
> Council for Open and Distance Education. ICDE North
> America Regional Conference, Calgary, Canada,
>
> j.. 9-11 May ICNEE'02. 4th
> International Conference on New Educational
> Environments. Lugano, Switzerland.
> (http://www.eduswiss.ch/4th-conf//).
>
> k.. 14-19 June, 2002: Strategic
> Management Seminar in co-operation with the European
> University Association (EUA), and the University of
> Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
> (www.oecd.org/els/education /higher/)
>
> l.. 16-19 June, 2002. 2002 EDEN Annual
> Conference. European Distance Education Network.
> Open and Distance Learning in Europe and Beyond
> Rethinking international Cooperation. Granada, Spain
> (http://www.eden.bme.hu/contents/news.html#1)
>
> m.. 21-22 June, 2002. Conference on
> New Generation Universities in co-operation with the
> University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
> (www.oecd.org/els/education /higher/)
>
> n.. June 20-23, 2002. American
> Association for Higher Education. Assessment
> Conference, Boston, Massachusetts.
> http://www.aahe.org/assessment/2002/
>
> o.. 26, 27, 28 de junio del 2002. II
> Congreso Europeo sobre Tecnologías de la Información
> en la Educación y la Ciudadanía: Una visión crítica.
> Barcelona, Spain
> (http://web.udg.es/tiec/cast/principalnegran.htm)
>
> p.. 7-10 July, 2002. HERDSA
> Conference. Quality Conversations. Higher Education
> Research and Development Society of
> AustralasiaSunset Coast, Perth, Australia.
>
http://www.ecu.edu.au/conferences/herdsa/welcome.html
>
>
> q.. 22-23 August 2002. Seminar on
> Managing University Libraries OECD, Paris, France.
> (www.oecd.org/els/education /higher/)
>
> r.. September 8-11, 2002. The 24th
> EAIR Forum - Crossing National, Structural and
> Technological Borders: Development and Management in
> Higher Education- Prague,
> (http://www.org.uva.nl/eair/prague/theme.asp)
>
> s.. 16-18 September 2002: IMHE General
> Conference - Incentives and Accountability:
> Instruments of Change in Higher Education.
> (http://www1.oecd.org/media/upcoming.htm )
> t.. 19 - 21 September 2002, University
> of Laval, Quebec City, Canada.
> Theme: Globalisation.
> http://www.unesco.org/iau
>
> u.. 29 September- 2 October 2002. ATEM
> 2002 Annual Conference. Excellence = Managing
> Colleagues, Customers and Core Values. Association
> for Tertiary Education Management. Brisbane,
> Australia, (http://www.atem-aappa2002.qut.edu.au/)
>
> v.. 11-12 October 2002. Zurich,
> Switzerland, ETH Zurich
> EUA/Swiss Confederation Conference on
> ECTS
> "Credit Transfer and Accumulation -
> the Challenge for Institutions "
> (http://www.unige.ch/eua/)
>
> w.. 2-7 November 2002. Strategic
> Management Seminar in co-operation with the
> Association of Universities of Asia and the Pacific
> (AUAP), Manila, The Philippines.
> (www.oecd.org/els/education /higher/)
>
> x.. 30 October-1st November 2002.
> 'Transforming Quality', the 7th Quality in Higher
> Education International Seminar, organised jointly
> by the Centre for Research into Quality and the
> Centre for Management Quality Research to be held in
> Melbourne Australia.
> http://www.qualityresearchinternational.com
> y.. September 2002. General Conference
> of Associations of Commonwealth Universities.
> Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast,
>
http://www.acu.ac.uk/cgi-bin/frameset.pl?ml=aboutacu&sl=conferences&select=conferences
>
> z.. 10-12 December 2002. The SRHE 2002
> Annual Conference. Society for Research into Higher
> Education. Students and Learning: what is changing?
> University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
> (http://www.srhe.ac.uk/indexevents.htm)
> aa.. 1-5 June 2003. 2003 World
> Conference, The 21st ICDE World Conference will take
> place in Hong Kong, SAR, China, hosted by the Open
> University of Hong Kong.
> (http://www.ouhk.edu.hk/hk2003/)
>
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> by the Conference of Spanish University Rectors and
> the Global University Network for Innovation, in
> cooperation with UNESCO Chair of Higher Education
> Management.
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