QUALITY ASSURANCE INTERNATIONALIZATION IN THE EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION AREA: LEGISLATIVE FOUNDATIONS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31499/2306-5532.1.2018.140214Keywords:
quality assurance, internationalization, legislative foundations, European dimension, European Higher Education Area (EHEA).Abstract
The article clarifies the genesis of forming a European dimension of quality assurance in higher education. It provides for the analysis of official documents of the EU and the Bologna Process, which lay the basis for quality assurance in higher education within the European Higher Education Area. Particular emphasis is put on the progressand first outcomes of the development of the quality assurance in higher education at the national and supranational levels. A special focus is placed ona series of joint actions taken by European countries to improve the quality of higher education through developing the quality assurance mechanisms to gain more transparency, accountability and legitimacy in European higher education systems. These actions include the launch ofthe Institutional Evaluation Program (IEP),the European pilot projects for evaluating quality in higher education,the creation of the European Network for Quality Assurance (ENQA) renamed into the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA), the creation of the Joint Quality Initiative (JQI) and the European Quality Assurance Register (EQAR). The adoption of the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG) is analyzed as an efficient way of creating the legal and regulatory environment in the European Higher Education Area.
References
Bollaert, L. Quality Assurance in Europe (2005–2015). From Internal and Institutional to External and International (2014). Journal of the European Higher Education Area, No. 3. P. 1–24. Available at: http://ecahe.eu/assets/uploads/2014/10/bollaert_v01.pdf [Accessed 2 Apr. 2018].
ENQA (2010) 10 Years (2000–2010). A Decade of European Co-operation in Quality Assurance in Higher Education, Helsinki: ENQA. Available at: http://www.enqa.eu/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/ ENQA-10th-Anniversary-publication.pdf [Accessed 2 Apr. 2018].
Westerheijden, D. F., & Leegwater, M. (Eds.). (2003). Working on the European Dimension of Quality: Report of the conference on quality assurance in higher education as part of the Bologna process, Amsterdam, 12–13 March 2002. Zoetermeer: Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschappen.
Comparative analysis of the ESG 2015 and ESG 2005 (2015).Available at: http://www.equip-project.eu/ wp-content/uploads/EQUIP_comparative-analysis-ESG-2015-ESG-2005.pdf [Accessed 2 Apr. 2018].
Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee andthe Committee of the Regions on a renewed EU agenda for higher education. Brussels, 30.5.2017. − COM (2017) 247 final. [Accessed 2 Apr. 2018].
Council Recommendation of 24 September 1998on European cooperation in quality assurance in higher education (98/561/EC) // Official Journal of the European Communities. – L 270. – Р. 56–59.
Orphanides, A. (2010). Quality Assurance in the EHEA (Bologna Process). Conference «Quality Assu-rance and Recognition in Higher Education: Challenges and Prospects», Mediterranean Beach Hotel, Limassol, Cyprus. Available at: http://slidegur.com/doc/3199127/the-european-quality-assurance-register --eqar/ [Accessed 2 Apr. 2018].
Report from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. Report on progress in quality assurance in higher education. (Text with EEA relevance) − Brussels, 28.1.2014. COM (2014) 29 final.
Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Councilof 15 February 2006on further European cooperation in quality assurance in higher education (2006/143/EC) // Official Journal of the European Communities.
Report from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. Report on progress in quality assurance in higher education. − Brussels, 21.9.2009. COM (2009) 487 final.
Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG). (2015). Brussels, Belgium. Available at: http://www.enqa.eu/index.php/home/esg/ [Accessed 2 Apr. 2018].
Yerevan Communiqué (2015). EHEA Ministerial Conference. Available at: https://www.ehea.info/pid 34363/ministerial-declarations-and-communiques.html [Accessed 2 Apr. 2018].
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2018 Inna Yeremenko
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
Responsibility for technical content and for protection of proprietary material rests solely with the author(s) and their organizations and is not the responsibility of the publisher, journal or its Editorial Staff.
The main author is responsible for ensuring that the article has been seen and approved by all the other authors.
It is the responsibility of the author to obtain all necessary copyright release permissions for the use of any copyrighted materials in the manuscript prior to the submission.
