Benefits and challenges of cross-border quality assurance in higher education. A case study in engineering education in Europe

Chaparro, Teresa Sánchez; Rémaud, B.; Gómez-Frías, Víctor; Duykaerts, Caty; Jolly, Anne-Marie

doi:10.1080/13538322.2021.2004984

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“…It is obvious that the quality control of higher education has slowed down during the COVID 19 pandemic. But recently there have been positive trends in addressing this issue both in individual countries and at the international level and cross-border cooperation (Sanchez-Chaparro et al, 2021). According to the management of the university (Hussain, Al-Mannai, & Agouni, 2020), the availability of DE technologies for many years and their widespread use in the Qatar University as a whole facilitated the rapid transition to high-quality distance learning.…”

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Distance Education. Lessons From the Covid19 Pandemic

Rakhmatullaev

2023

SIE

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The COVID19 pandemic has made changes not only in the health care, in our personal lives, but also in the education system especially. The purpose of the research is based on the analysis of the experience of universities of different countries, as well as a survey of teachers of Uzbekistan universities, that held classes during the quarantine, to identify the advantages and disadvantages of Distance Education(DE), as well as give recommendations for making decisions on development DE during the pandemic. To identify the advantages and disadvantages of distance learning during the COVID19 pandemic, an online survey was conducted among 126 university teachers. Respondents were asked to indicate the most important aspects of the advantages and problems of DE that they encountered during this period. Respondents indicated priorities - factors that had the greatest positive and negative impact on the learning process during the COVID19 pandemic. Analysis of this "short-term" period shows that DE has its pros and cons: Advantages: Saving time and money; Reducing the risk of getting sick; Development of DE technologies; Activating teachers to prepare e-courses; Equality of students to get knowledge. Disadvantages: Lack of direct contact with students; Complexity of individual work and in groups; "Presence Effect" of students; Activity of unscrupulous teachers; Complexity of knowledge assessment; Technological inequality among students; Decrease in the activity of scientific research.

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Distance Education. Lessons From the Covid19 Pandemic

Rakhmatullaev

2023

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“…Engaging in a discourse of "responsibility" is far from self-evident for organizations in general and universities in particular. Sharing know-how and strategy may be risky in a competitive European higher education market (Aghion et al, 2010;Sánchez-Chaparro et al, 2021). University alliance partners will always consider the return on investment and be careful when sharing core organizational aspects such as knowledge and strategy.…”

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The societal role of universities and their alliances: the case of the EuroTeQ Engineering University

Fuchs,

Cuevas-Garcia,

Bombaerts

2023

Tert Educ Manag

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We analyse the creation of European university alliances as an effort to build learning networks between universities in light of newly perceived needs in Europe. The rationales for such alliance formation include cultural integration, grand societal challenges and reforms in the European innovation ecosystem. We consider how alliance formation may be instrumental in achieving closer cooperation and understand alliances as learning networks where universities can share know-how, define strategies and pursue moral reflection. How such learning may take place is illustrated with a case study of the “EuroTeQ Collider”, a joint educational programme by one of the European university alliances. The case illustrates how uneven experience with novel educational formats and stakeholder engagement creates opportunities for exchange and how formulating a common language for joint activities can make universities align their strategies and deliberation.

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“…At the same time, it is obvious that international cooperation in the field of QA in HE has not stopped but also changed and acquired new forms and approaches. The globalisation process of QA in HE abated during the first stage of the Covid19 pandemic, but we can now observe new developments in various international settings and cross-border HE cooperation (Sánchez-Chaparro et al, 2021). In this respect, Uzbekistan has not been an exception.…”

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Modernisation of Higher Education in Uzbekistan: Transforming Quality Assurance System and Approaches

Krouglov

2022

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The paper explores the current transformations in the Quality Assurance (QA) system in the Higher Education (HE) of the Republic of Uzbekistan and examines the impact of the World Bank Modernising Higher Education project which aims, among other issues, to develop and implement a new system of external QA and strengthen the system of internal QA. The research analyses annual and quarterly reports prepared by the Project Team of the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialised Education of Uzbekistan, World Bank, Expert Advisory Panel as well as national and international consultants. In addition to this, a series of interviews were conducted with key stakeholders in Uzbekistan. The data received from the analysis of project reports and other documents were triangulated with the data obtained during semi-structured interviews. The research addresses the issues of the process of reforms in QA system at national and university levels and the gradual transformation of QA culture. It covers challenges in the introduction of new QA arrangements and assesses the role of various actors in the process of transformations.

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Benefits and challenges of cross-border quality assurance in higher education. A case study in engineering education in Europe

Cited by 4 publications

References 36 publications

Advantages and Disadvantages of Distance Education. Lessons From the Covid19 Pandemic

Advantages and Disadvantages of Distance Education. Lessons From the Covid19 Pandemic

The societal role of universities and their alliances: the case of the EuroTeQ Engineering University

Modernisation of Higher Education in Uzbekistan: Transforming Quality Assurance System and Approaches

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