The UB hosts the 9th European Quality Assurance Forum (EQAF)

This year, a student first chairs the steering committee of the meeting, which analyses the key role that students play in learning.
This year, a student first chairs the steering committee of the meeting, which analyses the key role that students play in learning.
Institutional
(12/11/2014)

The construction of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) has fostered an important process of change at universities. Students are more heterogeneous and autonomous; higher education institutions receive more specific demands from society, and universities have had to include ICTs in all the processes they carry out (training, management and research). In order to analyse the evolution of these changes, four European higher education associations set up the European Quality Assurance Forum (EQAF) in 2006. From 13 to 15 November, the University of Barcelona (UB) hosts its ninth edition. This is the first forum chaired by a student, the British Dan Derricot, who is now studying a masterʼs degree in public policy and management from the University of York and works for the University of Lincoln, developing and delivering strategy on student engagement.

This year, a student first chairs the steering committee of the meeting, which analyses the key role that students play in learning.
This year, a student first chairs the steering committee of the meeting, which analyses the key role that students play in learning.
Institutional
12/11/2014

The construction of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) has fostered an important process of change at universities. Students are more heterogeneous and autonomous; higher education institutions receive more specific demands from society, and universities have had to include ICTs in all the processes they carry out (training, management and research). In order to analyse the evolution of these changes, four European higher education associations set up the European Quality Assurance Forum (EQAF) in 2006. From 13 to 15 November, the University of Barcelona (UB) hosts its ninth edition. This is the first forum chaired by a student, the British Dan Derricot, who is now studying a masterʼs degree in public policy and management from the University of York and works for the University of Lincoln, developing and delivering strategy on student engagement.

The official opening takes place on Thursday 13 November at 5 p.m., at the Paranymph of the Historic Building of the UB (585, Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, Barcelona). Under the title “Changing education: quality assurance and the shift from teaching to learning”, the 9th edition is centred on students as the main actors of the teaching-learning process. The forum analyses student diverse populations, the implementation of new methodologies of teaching and learning, and the processes to assess academic results. Through a mix of plenary and parallel sessions, the 2014 EQAF programme includes the presentation of more than forty experiences of quality assurance development at European higher education institutions.

The EQAF is organised by the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA), the European Students Union (ESU), the European University Association (EUA) and the European Association of Institutions in Higher Education (EURASHE). The UB hosts the forum by means of the Office of the Vice-Rector for Academic Policy and Quality and the Agency for Policy and Quality. Among participants, there are university rectors and vice-rectors, quality assurance officers at higher education institutions, students and researchers working on higher education and the quality assurance field.

The next edition of the forum takes place from 19 to 21 November 2015 in London. The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) and the Institute of Education of the University of London coordinate its organization.