Support Team "Quality Assurance"
The Support Team on Quality Assurance was set up during the Conference at BOKU in October 2004 after the ELLS Conference on Internationalisation and Quality Assurance in Hohenheim in February 2004.
Guidelines for Curriculum Development and Quality Assurance of Joint Master Programmes
The "Guidelines for Curriculum Development and Quality Assurance" are the findings of a project funded by the ELLS Fund for 2006 that was carried out by the Quality Assurance support group of the Euroleague of Life Sciences.
These guidelines should help the members of a Subject Area (programme developers, programme co-ordinators) to design, set up and implement new joint Master programmes within the ELLS network. As the Euroleague defines itself as a
quality network, special emphasis will be laid on the provision of joint Masters on a very high level. For the evaluation and quality assurance of joint Master programmes the QA support group provides quality criteria that can be found in Part 2.
Downloads
- Guidelines for Curriculum Development (pdf, 349 KB) - 2nd edition 2010
- Supervisor report (WORD-Document)
- Thesis Evaluation Form (WORD-Document)
- Thesis Defence Evaluation Form (WORD-Document)
- Accreditation and External Evaluation
of Master Degree Programmes in the Euroleague for Life Sciences
Objectives of the support team Quality Assurance
- To carry out an exchange of information between the ELLS universities in the area of quality assurance, evaluation, benchmarking and quality development with special emphasis on teaching and learning.
- To benchmark and analyse common practices in the field of evaluation (especially course evaluation and programme evaluation)
- To improve evaluation procedures and follow up processes
- To improve and further develop the quality of courses and study programmes, especially of international Master programmes
The Quality Assurance Group comprises members from all partner universities and from ELSA in order to assure that student affairs are well considered. The group also established a good coordination with ICA, the Interuniversity Consortium of Agricultural and Related Sciences in Europe
Documents
- Academic Quality Handbook, University of Aberdeen
- International Comparative Evaluation of Agricultural Sciences Related BSc Programmes, Danish Evaluation Institute
Minutes
- Minutes Quality Assurance group, 20 - 22 October 2004,Vienna
- Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting KVL, Jan. 13-14, 2005
- Proceedings of the QA-Workshop in Prague, March 2006
- Proceedings of the QA-Workshop in Warsaw, October 2006