Welcome

EUA Institutional Evaluation ProgrammeWorkshop for universities 2008/09

Brussels, 13 October 2008

Welcome

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Principles

Overall goal: to strengthen institutional autonomy and support institutional change processes

Institutional approach

Improvement orientation – supporting the institution in developing its strategic and quality management

Geared towards the interests of the institution

No judgements for accountability purposes or ranking

Evaluation primarily in light of the institution’s own mission and goals, and not against external standards

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Distinctive featuresStrong emphasis on self-evaluation

European and international perspective

Peer review

Non-profit approach

EUA is independent of national agencies or government evaluation/accreditation programmes

Not linked to allocation of funds or short-term control function on behalf of public authorities

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Major steps in the evaluation process

Self-evaluationreport byinstitution

Two sitevisits byevaluationteam

ReportFollow-up(optional)

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Role of the institutional leadership

Clarify the role and responsibilities of the self-evaluation steering committee towards all other staff

Support and encourage the process by explaining its significance and addressing any concerns

Take responsibility for the self -evaluation report but does not have to agree with every single point

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Focus on the process of self-evaluation (collective task), rather than on the report

Involve a cross-section of the HEI (institutional leadership, academic and administrative staff, students) from beginning to end

Address any concerns and misunderstandings regarding the IEP within institution (underlying principles, evaluation process etc.)

Key success factors

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New policies this year

A student member in every review team

Evaluation reports will be published on IEP web-site

Further informationPractical matters – Violeta Atanassova’s presentation

Guidelines for institution 2008 Please note that guidelines have been up-dated last week.

Special focus has been changed into strategic priority in order to better correspond to the nature of the concept.

The IEP team at the EUA secretariat Violeta Atanassova: violeta.atanassova@eua.be Tia Loukkola: tia.loukkola@eua.be Andrée Sursock: andree.sursock@eua.be

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