Joint Programmes: Too many cooks in the kitchen?
Challenges for Accreditation, Recognition and Transparency
The European Consortium for Accreditation in higher education (ECA) will organise the conference Joint Programmes: Too many cooks in the kitchen? The conference is aimed at agencies, higher education institutions, students, recognition authorities and governments, and will be held in Graz (Austria) on 10 and 11 June 2010.
You are cordially invited to look at the programme and register on line (see menu at the left).
Joint programmes are confronted with national quality assurance and accreditation procedures in the countries involved. One programme therefore has to undergo several different, national procedures. These procedures then lead to decisions that only have an impact in one national higher education system. The conference in Graz presents a methodology for a single accreditation procedure of joint programmes. An accreditation of a joint programme by one agency can then be accepted by other agencies.
Furthermore, the recognition of a joint programme in one country does not necessarily entail recognition in the other countries concerned. This then leads to recognition problems regarding the degree(s) awarded by the joint programme. The conference presents how joint programmes can improve the recognition of their degrees and how recognition authorities (ENIC-NARICs) currently evaluate their degrees.
Transparent information on accredited joint programmes and qualifications, accreditation and recognition systems, qualification frameworks and higher education systems is made available through the website Qrossroads.
The improved and extended website will be presented in Graz.
This conference disseminates the results of ECA's TEAM II project which is funded by the European Commission.
With the support of the Lifelong Learning Programme (Erasmus) of the European Union.
Quality assurance of joint programmes and recognition of the degrees awarded
Are you interested in quality assurance of joint programmes and recognition of degrees awarded by these programmes?
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JOIMAN project
Joiman is not a project of ECA, but is a European Commission funded LLP project focusing on Erasmus Mundus programmes.
Joiman aims at providing a platform in which an experienced group of partners could share knowledge and know how on the solutions found for the problems faced during the first stage of the Erasmus Mundus Programme.