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Peer Power
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The ELIA Quality Enhancement Project
Developing a knowledge centre for self-responsible institutional development
ELIA organizes a yearly training for QA&E experts, offers an evaluation process to its member institutions and supplies national agencies with trained and experiences experts for their accreditations.
Next workshop: Birmingham, UK, 23-25 February
In the last years ELIA has developed a distinct approach towards Quality Assurance and Enhancement, including a methodology tailored for Higher Arts Education Institutions. In ELIA's view a sound quality culture is based in a strong institutional vision on quality with a focus on the students’ learning experience.
Over the past six years - through collaboration with the European Thematic Networks inter}artes and artesnetEurope- ELIA has trained experts and tested its methodology of institutional review as well as programme review in different member institutions and different disciplines. The impact of ELIA's methodology has been evaluated after a set period of time.
Through developing this expertise and establishing principles and processes we are now able to act as European reference points for higher arts education, offering services and professional guidance in the following fields:
Qualification Frameworks – developed trans-national lifelong learning reference tools for ensuring comparability and greater transparency and providing improved accessibility for the general public;
Quality Assurance and Enhancement – developed and tested principles, guidelines and procedures for institutional and discipline peer review, register of trained and experienced experts;
Learning Outcomes and competences – defined at BA, MA and PhD levels for dance, design, fine art, theatre and film education according to the Tuning template; created a Bologna Dossier including a dictionary/glossary of terms and background papers.
Project co-ordinators
Prof. John Butler, Head of School of Art, Birmingham City University
Lars Ebert, ELIA Senior advisor, lars.ebert [@] elia-artschools.org
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