This report is the result of two regional seminars on current trends in European Quality Assurance organised by ENQA in 2007. The seminars were held in Sofia, Bulgaria and
The Holy See, Vatican City. The Sofia seminar was organised in...

The editorial gives an overview of the topics addressed in the March 2014 issue of ZFHE and states four priorities that can be differentiated in regard to the development of study programmes: organizational design, quality management, coherent...

The concept of quality has always been an important part of academic tradition and it has moved into the focus of international higher education over the last two decades. Some of the reasons for why awareness for quality assurance has expanded...

The article presents some key developments in quality assurance (QA) on a European level over the last ten years. Particular attention is paid to discussing the impact of European QA policies (e.g. the European Standards & Guidelines) at the...

This report presents the results of the joint 2005–06 project of the Nordic Quality Assurance Network in Higher Education (NOQA). The project focused on the Europeanstandards and guidelines for quality assurance agencies, examining them in a...

Inter- and multidisciplinarity is a key feature of postgraduate training at the Imperial College in London. In addition, the importance of regular and intensive skills training has been accentuated since the decision to establish a Graduate...

Quality assurance has become a standard instrument of higher education policy since the late 1980s. Quality assurance mechanisms are expected to yield better institutional performance for one of three possible reasons, (a) compliance with the...

This report is the result of an ENQA workshop, hosted by the German Accreditation Council (GAC) in Berlin in June 2008, which gave an opportunity to share experience of linking both programme-oriented and institutional-oriented approaches and to...

Die Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) prüft, ob und wie britische Universitäten, university colleges und further education colleges die akademischen Standards ihrer Bildungsangebote wahren und sichern, und wie sie die Qualität...

This report by the authors Carita Blomqvist, Tony Donohoe, Maria Kelo, Karin Järplid Linde, Rafael Llavori, Bryan Maguire, David Metz and Teresa Sanchez is based on the ENQA workshop “Quality Assurance and Qualifications Frameworks: exchanging...