November 3, 2022
Training on “Quality assurance in Higher Education” organized in the framework of the VALEU-X Erasmus+ project, took place at EPOKA University on 03 November 2022. The session was moderated by Dr. Nada Trunk Širca, representative of the International School for Social and Business Studies (ISSBS) in Slovenia.
Dr. Trunk emphasized that the need on quality assurance came as a result of the ‘massification’ of Higher Education Institutions. Thus, appropriate and reliable accreditation and evaluation processes were needed to assure the quality of degrees offered by these institutions.
The session continued with a brief description of the various instruments that have been developed through the Bologna Process such as ECTS, Diploma Supplement, European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in EHEA.
Specifically, the discussion focused on European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) as a key tool of the European Higher Education Area that increases the transparency of qualifications and constitutes one of the main objectives to be achieved by countries participating in the Bologna Process.
An introduction of the Micro Credential was provided to all participants given that it is a Council Recommendation on a European approach to micro-credentials as the new trend in the HE that reinforces up-to-date competences for graduates.
