QUALITY ASSURANCE STRUCTURES AND

PROCESSES

BUILDING THE CAPACITY OF ALL STAFF?

DIFFERENT APPROACHES

• Very centralised - rarely giving power to the local level?

• Very inflexible with ‘legalistic’ culture of micro-management?

• Very localised with little oversight by senior management?

• Mixed?

Romanian Model of QA in HE

• Agreement of a National Framework

• Very definite curriculum design template

• National Registry of HE Qualifications since 1965

• On-line training for all HE staff with involvement in quality assurance of new programmes

• On-line training for external experts

Methodology for on-line QA training

Decide the METHODOLOGICAL GUIDE for design and quality assurance of university qualifications

Design 5 training modules

Teach the modules in traditional ay first to create a group of 25 experts in QA of new qualifications

EVALUATE

Design e-learning versions of the 5 training modules

Levels of Training

• 1. LINCENCED quality evaluators – must be assessed and successfully complete 5 training modules

• 2. Academic staff my take modules as required by their job responsibilities – with or without assessment

• 3. General interest training – ‘light’ version