Development and Integration of University Self-Assessment

Systems

Consortium:

P1 Applicant - Koblenz-Landau University

Koblenz, Germany

P2 Partner - ASIIN Consult GmbH

Düsseldorf, Germany

P3 – Link Campus University of Malta

Roma, Italy

P4 - Wrocław University of Technology

Wrocław, Poland

P5 - Université du Maine (Le Mans University)

Le Mans, France

P6 - Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts

Yerevan, Armenia

P7 - Yerevan State University

Yerevan, Armenia

P8 - Yerevan State Medical University

Yerevan, Armenia

P9 - Vanadzor branch of State Engineering

University of Armenia

Vanadzor, Armenia

P10 - Gyumri State Pedagogical Institute

after M. Nalbandyan

Gyumri, Armenia

P11 - State Engineering University of

Armenia (Polytechnic)

Yerevan, Armenia

P12 - National Center For Professional

Education Quality Assurance

Yerevan, Armenia

P13 - Ministry of Education and Science

Yerevan, Armenia

Specific objectives of the project

• To develop a university self-assessment framework • To train the staff responsible for effective university self-assessment processes • To establish a necessary infrastructure for effective university self-assessment • To promote student involvement in university self-assessment processes • To make the self-assessment mechanism an integral part of university functioning • To make the result public for further application and elaboration

PICQA Promoting Internationalization and

Comparability of Quality Assurance in Higher Education

Specific objectives of the project

The project aims at developing new and at adjusting existing models for external quality assurance sys-tems in higher education in the partner countries which are acceptable and comparable regionally and internationally. The competences of HEIs in the partner countries in external and internal quality assurance will be developed in order to prepare them for applying its methods and instruments.

DEQUE Development of Quality Assurance

System in Turkmenistan on the Base of Bologna Standards

Specific objectives of the project

• To develop standards, formal procedures and associated instructions for the assurance of the education quality in Turkmenistan on the basis of European and national quality assurance standards.

• To establish National Agency of Quality Assurance.

• To promote international co-operation of the Agency to enhancing quality assurance decisions and quality assessment.

Work package: Fact-finding at Partner Institutions

Study of local practices at EU and Armenian participating universities.

The resultant study will be the basis for developing a draft model for both institutional and programme self-assessment systems.

2. Assessment of extant mechanisms. January – March, 2010.

The fact-finding will be conducted through the document analyses and a questionnaire designed by the Work Group (WG) involving both PC and EU institutions. The questionnaire will contain the following criteria: prog-ramme (design and approval, learning outcomes, teaching and learning, student and teacher assessment, teacher professional development, resources, monitoring and feedback), institutional (institutional capacity, financial aspects, knowledge management, information manage-ment, student support services, internal quality assurance system).

Work package: Fact-finding at Partner Institutions

3. Analyzing the results and planning benchmarking. April, 2010.

PCIs will conduct a survey and provide a report on the state of affairs. The WG will study the results and identify the areas in need of improvement at the conference held at Université du Maine. The qualitative part of the survey will provide for a more grounded approach, enabling establishment of the criteria, standards and procedures for self-assessment peculiar to the particular situation. The facts and evidences revealed through the study will feed into a new set of criteria, standards and procedures for institutional and programme self-assessment ensuring coverage of the areas in need of improvement.

Some financial aspects:

Equipment VAT problem: Tempus project can not pay VAT; by Tempus agreement, signed by all NIS countries, all purchases are free from VAT. But it is very difficult to realise this right.

Equipment can be purchased by 3 ways:

� by money transferring from the project account to account of a seller; better if the account of the seller is in EU, but the seller can deliver the equipment to corresponding NIS country; it is better way to buy big consignments of equipment;

� by cash in NIS or EU country; it is better way to buy separate inexpensive units;

In all the cases the main document, which should be presented, is an invoice with stamp “paid”. VAT can not be mentioned in the invoice; or VAT should be paid by corresponding university.

Some financial aspects:

Travels

Originals of tickets should be presented.

For aircraft tickets (ordinary or electronic) it is necessary to present boarding passes.

In the contract the maximal level of per diem expenses is represented; real sums will be determined depends of a budget situation.

Participation in project events will depend on 3 factors:

1. Real contribution of the person and the university. 2. Propositions of the home university. 3. Financial possibilities.