IPA project “QUALITYWATCH”
Employees of the Quality Assurance Center have participated at a lecture on transparency of quality assurance in higher education. This slecture was held at the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports on 3 May 2016.
It was a part of the implementation of the IPA project “QUALITYWATCH”: The active role of civil society organizations in monitoring and promoting quality in higher education in Croatia “. There were presented examples of good practice on the external quality assurance procedures, the ranking of higher education institutions and transparency (THE, Shanghai, QS, U-Multirank, U-Map), complementary activities in quality assurance procedures, incentives for improving the quality and possibilities and limitations in quality assurance.
The speakers were top international experts in the field: Prof. Don Westerheijden from Dutch Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS, University of Twente), Andreas Raggautz (University of Graz) and Živa Kos (Centre for Educational Policy Studies, University of Ljubljana).
The lecture was, in addition to employees of the Center for Quality, attended by employees of the offices for quality assurance of the Faculty of Educational Sciences, Catholic Faculty of Theology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Slavonski Brod and the Department of Mathematics of the University of Osijek.
