WORKING GROUP 1 “How to get a newly established

agency up and running”

ORGANISATIONAL MATTERS: Nominate, elect a Rapporteur: 5 minutes

Short presentation of a case study: Albania: 15-20 minutes

Propose topics for discussion; 5-10 minutes

Discussions: 60 minutes

HOW TO SET UP AND RUN A QA AGENCY- Albania -

9 NOVEMBER 2007SOFIA

DHURATA BOZOPUBLIC ACCREDITATION AGENCY FOR HIGHER

EDUCATION

Higher Education Institutions in Albania

Public HEIs 13 3 main HEIs in Tirana 3 academies 1 military HEI 6 regional HEIs > 200 programmes

Private HEIs 15 (+??) 13 domestic 2 cross-border&joint >70 HE programmes

QA Institutions Public Accreditation Agency for HE (PAAHE)

Evaluation (periodic, analitical, comparative) Procedure, criteria, requirements, peers Evaluation results Publication

Accreditation Council (AC) Recomendations to Government Decision on procedures, criteria, standards Appeal

Council for Higher Education and Science (CHES) Recomendations to Government Decision on procedures, criteria, standards Appeal

Ministry & Government

Evaluation and Accreditation Procedure

Self-evaluation (se): se team and se folder External evaluation (ee): ee peers, report Training of se and ee teams Evaluation result:report Comments from HEI Appeal Recomendations: AC Decision: Ministry (but consistent with) Publication (AAHE) of results (ee reports) and decisions

(web site) Follow up

Institutional/Programme Evaluations - indicator

60 4

811

54

20

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 May-07

Evaluations over Years

Programmes/HEIs evaluated-indicator

74

129

Evaluations Prog. In Process

TOTAL 203

Programmes Evaluated in Public HEIs-indicator

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

UT UPT UBT USH UE UV UK UGJ AA ASEF AP USH

Evaluated / In Process Programmes in HEI-s

Evaluated Prog In Process

TOTALI 203

Institutions Evaluated in Public HEIs - indicator

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

UT UPT UBT USH UE UV UK UGJ AA ASEF AP USH

Evaluated / In Process Departments in HEI-s

Evaluated Dep. In Process TOTALI 148

Budget use capacity-indicator

Budget Use Capacity

€ 0

€ 20

€ 40

€ 60

€ 80

€ 100

€ 120

€ 140

€ 160

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

000 Euro

Used Planned

Private HEIs licensed over years

1 1

3

2

8

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

Numri i UP të liçencuara sipas Viteve

Private HEIs “New York-Tirana “ “Zoja e Këshillit

të Mirë” “Luarasi” “Marubi” “Marin Barleti” “Kristal” “Justiniani I” “S&P Qiriazi” “Justicia” “Ufo Dental” “Aldent” “Medikadent” “Europian i Tiranës” “Polis” “Wisdom”

Statusi i UP në lidhje me procesin e Vlersim-akreditimit

Jo operatv, 1Të akredituara, 2

Në proces

akreditimi, 2Vetëm të

liçencuar, 10

Distribution of students in private HEI-s and status of accreditation

(around 6.000; 10% of total)

0.7%

5.2%

0.7%

9.5%

0.5%

6.0%

0.6%

9.5%

1.6%

30.4%

2.6% 1.2%

30.5%

1.1%

0.0%

5.0%

10.0%

15.0%

20.0%

25.0%

30.0%

35.0%S

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UN

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UP

UZ

KM

FM

M

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LM UL

U S

& P

UK

UE

T

UM

B

UF

O UJ

Shpërndarja e Studentëve në UP (në %)

External Experts in Evaluations

19+2

03

18+1 18+1

30+626

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Maj2007

External Experts: Domestic Foreign

Internationalisation of PAAHE

INQAAHE : full member 2002 CEE Network : full member 2003 EAIE - individual membership –

2004 ENQA - about to apply for ECA - cooperation agreement (CEE

– Network) - 2006

Last and next developments National Level:

New Higher Education Act: 1 July 2007– QA ridesign

More foreign experts and expertise involvement

Diversification of procedures: first/ periodical, programme/ institutional, joint and cross-border

HEIs and Student feed back - institutionalisation

QA for QA System A more close collaboration with HEIs for

Internal QA in HEIs

Last and next developments

International Level: ENQA: SG – How AAHE knows its

work? Selfevaluation – ESG (ENQA), GGP

(INQAAHE), GQPCE (UNESCO) Selfcheck analysis Self-evaluation report External evaluation from ENQA -

Register

New tasks and challenges for QAA

Shifting towards a learning outcomes based process

QA of the Curricula development reform under Bologna

Institutional and operational cooperation and coordination with recognition issues

Institutional and operational cooperation and coordination with National Qualifications Framework

System wide analysis on a more regular basis Prepare for an external (foreign) evaluation

- ESG for QA in EHEA UNESCO_Guidelines for Quality Priovision in Cross- border Education

TOPICS FOR DISCUSSIONS Why to establish a QA agency? Why a separate and

independent agency? Whom are we working for? Who benefits from our work? Do we know our work? How well do we know our work? How do we assess our work? Which are the progress and/or doing well

indicators? How we get feed back from stakeholders? Who are

they? When and how we do? What self-assesment is good for? Other?

THANK YOU

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