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.

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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

Activities

During the Vienna Meeting (Oct. 2004) major topics and a list of project proposals were elaborated out of which staff development on teaching and learning and the external examiner system were selected by the ELLS Board to be further focussed on.
Please find here further information on the Vienna Meeting .

During the Copenhagen Meeting (Jan. 2005) we focussed on the following items:

Staff development in teaching and learning
SA Environmental Sciences: Pilot Project
External examiners
Framework for joint MSc Programmes
Course evaluation
Co-operation ELLS - ICA

Download the Proceedings of the Copenhagen meeting .

Meeting in Prague, 1 - 2 March 2006

Download the Proceedings of the QA-Workshop in Prague

Meeting in Warsaw, 25 - 26 October 2006

Download the Proceedings of the QA-Workshop in Warsaw
Presentation of the Quality Assurance team at the ELLS Conference in Warsaw

Documents

Academic Quality Handbook, University of Aberdeen
International Comparative Evaluation of Agricultural Sciences Related BSc Programmes , Danish Evaluation Institute