Quality assurance in higher education is key to ensure that universities can trust degrees from other institutions and provide certainty of quality to employers.
Many European higher education institutions indicate that quality assurance processes for transnational programmes are still too long, costly, and poorly fit for transnational joint programmes.
Objective
The European quality assurance and recognition system in higher education would
- support higher education institutions in Europe to cooperate transnationally
- ease people’s learning mobility
- simplify the development of joint programmes
- help institutions create educational programmes which respond quickly to fast-changing societal and market needs
- contribute to automatic recognition of learning experiences abroad and qualifications
Proposal for a Council Recommendation on a European quality assurance and recognition system
The proposal invites EU countries and higher education institutions to
- simplify and improve their quality assurance processes and practices
- scrutinise existing tools and practices with a view to making them fit-for-purpose