Jan Philipp Engelmann

General Assembly and Workshop in Albania, May 23-24, 2008

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The Central and Eastern European Network of Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education held its biennial General Assembly meeting in Durres, Albania on 24 May 2008, with a Workshop on “Cooperation of accreditation agencies towards mutual recognition of accreditation decisions” held on 23 May.

Link to the Programme, Minutes of the meeting and Participants list.

The event brought together representatives from the member agencies, non-members from the Balkan Region and participants from European organizations operating in the field of HE. Information on the event is available on the website at http://www.aaal.edu.al/pagesEN/pages/Conferences_train.htm

St. Petersburg workshop 2007

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The CEE Network held its annual workshop and Steering Committee meeting in St. Petersburg 25-26 May. The aim of the workshop was to determine to what extent the region’s QA agencies have adopted the European Standards and Guidelines, or in how far they believe that some of the standards cannot be adopted in full but need to be changed to reflect the region’s specific concerns and practices. An in-depth study – on student involvement in QA and appeals procedures of agencies – will be produced in the coming months.

The Minutes of the Steering Committee meeting can be read here.

 

CEE Network member co-opted to INQAAHE Board

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At the 3 April 2007 meeting of the INQAAHE Board, held attached to the General Assembly, in Toronto, Canada, Prof. As. Dhurata Bozo, director of the Public Accreditation Agency of Higher Education in Albania, a CEE Network member. At the INQAAHE Board she is representing the CEE region.

For more information on the upcoming CEE Network cooperation project under the Global Initiative for Quality Assurance Capacity (GIQAC) of the World Bank please go to www.inqaahe.org

Implementing Quality Assurance standards in the European Higher Education Area

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The late Dr. Stefanie Hofmann represented the CEE Network at the conference in Spain titled “Implementing Quality Assurance standards in the European Higher Education Area. The way forward” on 3-4 July 2006, organised by ANECA. You can view the presentation, dealing with the CEE Network survey, at

http://www.aneca.es/actividades/docs/eventos/uimp06_hofmann.pdf

CEE Network General Assembly and Workshop

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The CEE Network held its annual workshop together with its biennial General Assembly on 29-30 May 2006 in Schloss Retzhof near Graz, Austria. Peter Williams, president of ENQA, gave a presentation about that organisation in anticipation of the CEE Network joining ENQA as an affiliate organisation. In addition to CEE Network members, Emmi Helle, ENQA acting secretary general, and Katja Kamsek of ESIB also attended.

The aim of the workshop was to discuss the developments of member agencies toward attaining the European Standards since the CEE Network Survey was taken. The main outcome of the discussions was that all participating agencies meet most of the European Standards, with the greatest deficits being in the area of foreign experts, student participation, independence, and the external evaluation of agencies.

The General Assembly elected Pavol Navrat, Slovakia, as its new chairman and steering committee members Galina Motova, Russia, Ivan Panayatov, Bulgaria, Aurelija Valeikiene, Lithuania (also Treasurer), and Marek Wasowicz, Poland.

The Austrian agency AQA was given full member status, and a formal co-operation with the European Consortium of Accreditation ECA was approved. The General Assembly also voted to draw the limit of the CEE Network at the Ural Mountains.

The minutes and programme can be read by clicking on the links.