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Tempus BOPROCRO project Site visit to the
University of Groningen May 10th 2005
Quality Assurance Accreditation
Alie van Arragon Rob van Ouwerkerk
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University of Groningen

• 22,000 students
• 5,000 employees
• 10 faculties
• 60 Bachelors programmes
• 100 Masters programmes
• PhD programme/Graduate Schools

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Quality Evaluation

• All universities
• Teaching every 6 years national
• Research every 6 years international
• Since 1988
• Based on self evaluation and visitation
• Students participate

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Participants Before
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Consequences Before

• Positive report
• Passable / Middling Report
• Negative report
• Worst Case Scenario yellow or red card
• Possible but never effectuated red card

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Changes University Quality Evaluation

• Secondary education
• Bachelor and Master
• Teaching accreditation
• Research funding Top Master
• International standards

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Participants Now

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Route

• Two years before Accreditation
• Executive Board start process
• Programme Evaluation Report
• University Education Advisory Committee
• Executive Board
• QANU

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Route next

• Visitation Committee visits University /
  Programme
• Report oral written, by QANU
• Metaevaluation by NVAO
• Executive Board requests accreditation from NVAO
• After Ministry of Education judges necessity

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Goals of External Quality Evaluation

• Testing Course by Quality Standards
• Peer review
• National Benchmark
• International Benchmark

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Main Points Quality Evaluation

• Programme
• Goals
• Programme, tests exams
• Lecturers
• Facilities
• Output quality quantity
• Research based
• Quality assurance

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Consequences Now

• Positive report what position?
• Passable / middling report changes?
• Negative report when can changes start?
• Worst Case Scenario yellow or red card
• Yellow or red card means second visitation
• No improvement no accreditation

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Accreditation

• Status and position of programme/faculty/departme
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• Status and position of the university
• State funding
• Value of degree / diploma
• Student (State) grants

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Problems

• Programme as starting point
• RUG 60 bachelor programmes and
• 100 master programmes
• Time consuming
• Expensive ? 10.000 per programme
• Changing / Shifting Procedures

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RUG 2004-2005 programmes

• Languages 25
• Art Culture 4
• Linguistics 6
• History 8
• Pedagogical, Educational Social Sciences 6
• Medicine, Dentistry Human Movement Sciences 6
• Pharmacy Biomedical Engineering 6

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Focus in RUG

• Internal Quality Assurance System

Cycle 1 evaluation 2 correct/improve 3 check
on effects and so on ...
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In what stage?

• Depends on
• faculty
• programme
• and whom you ask