EURASHE contributes to CoE’s 24th Standing Conference of Ministers of Education – 26-27 April 2013

On 26-27 April 2013, EURASHE was represented at the 24th Standing Conference of Ministers of Education of the Council of Europe in Helsinki (Finland) by a delegation comprising its President Prof. Andreas G. Orphanides and its Secretary General Stefan Delplace.

The ministerial Conference was dedicated to the topics of governance and quality education. It highlighted the contemporary challenges in the implementation of governance and quality standards based on the vision of the Council of Europe.

Photograph Council of Europe 24th Standing Conference of Ministers of Education, 26th April, Helsinki, Finlandia Hall, Family Portrait, with EURASHE’s President Prof. Andreas G. Orphanides (third from the right top row) – Mikko Käkelä ©

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EURASHE re-elects President and Vice-President in Split

During EURASHE’s 2013 General Assembly held on 8 May 2013 in Split (Croatia), Prof. Andreas G. Orphanides, Rector of European University Cyprus (EUC) (Cyprus) was re-elected President of EURASHE for a 2-year term.

Michal Karpíšek, Executive Officer of the Czech Association of Schools of Professional Higher Education (CASPHE) (Czech Republic) was also re-elected Vice-President of EURASHE for a 2-year term.

More on the organisation of EURASHE here.

EURASHE’s 23rd Annual Conference – Report soon published

EURASHE’s 23rd Annual Conference on ‘HIGHER EDUCATION – MAKING THE KNOWLEDGE TRIANGLE WORK‘ was successfully held on 9-10 May 2013 in Split (Croatia).

Contributions, speeches, presentations, photographs of the Conference are available here

Photographs kindly provided by the Touristic Office of Split – www.visitsplit.com

EURASHE involved in Revision of the ECTS Users’ Guide

EURASHE has been involved in the Bologna Follow-Up Group (BFUG) Ad-Hoc Working Group on the Revision of the ECTS Users’ Guide along with representatives of Armenia, Austria, Belgium/Flemish Community, Germany, France, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Moldova, Sweden, Ukraine, UK, EUA, ESU, and ENQA.

EURASHE is represented in the Group by Sandra Kraze, BA School of Business & Finance (Latvia), member of the Council of EURASHE. Sandra Kraze is a Bologna Expert for Latvia and was member of the drafting group of ECTS Users’ Guide in  2009.

EURASHE is also contributing through Sylvie Bonichon, La Providence Institution (France) as an external RPL expert. Sylvie Bonichon is a Bologna Expert for France.

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8th European Quality Assurance Forum (Gothenburg, November 2013) – Call for Contributions!

We are happy to announce that the 8th European Quality Assurance Forum (EQAF) will take place on 21-23 November 2013 at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden).

Through a mix of plenary and parallel sessions, the 2013 edition of EQAF, entitled “Working together to take quality forward”, will combine practice-oriented or research-based discussions that will take place in the paper sessions and workshops with presentations of current developments in quality assurance. This year the Forum will specifically explore how both individuals and organisations can better understand the role that quality assurance can play in their daily lives, get engaged and work together to take quality forward.

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