Programme Evaluation for Transparency and Recognition of Skills and Qualitfications Erasmus Project

Project Title

Programme Evaluation for Transparency and Recognition of Skills and Qualitfications

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

With the continuous development of the knowledge-based society and the shared knowledge economy the role of higher education (HE) is in perpetual evolution with few constants: taking a central role in knowledge creation and innovation, building citizens for democratic societies, and providing trusted certifications. The Lebanese HE system is no exception in this regard. However, the sector has been spreading in the past two decades with a big number of institutions and programmes following different education systems. Despite great efforts supported by EU actions in the past years, the country has not succeeded in establishing yet a Lebanese agency that would be responsible for the quality and relevance of the numerous institutions, programmes and certifications. TLQAA+ is a follow up on TLQAA Tempus project. It aims at developing the culture of programmes’ evaluation and matching against national qualifications framework (NQF) for the sake of increased transparency and recognition of skills and certifications. TLQAA+ has multiple objectives. Its direct capacity building objectives fall under: i. Study the relations between recognition and quality assurance (QA), ii. Suggest a Lebanese QF, iii. Suggest recommendations regarding the QA for new delivery modes of courses and programmes and, iv. Develop necessary blocks for programmes’ evaluation and the usage of a NQF. These goals foster the culture of quality, dialogue and transparency at the programmes’ level and better serve in a Lebanese QA agency as well as internal programmes’ review. They will be experimented in the context of a pilot evaluation.In addition, the project will achieve many indirect objectives, among which: i. Nurture the climate of trust, ii. Produce a short course about internal QA units, iii. Set descriptive indicators to serve external or internal evaluation and strategic planning and, iv. Establish dialogue with the labour market based on transparency and recognition of certifications.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 881583,33 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITY OF BALAMAND & Country: LB

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES
• UNIVERSIDAD DE ALICANTE
• UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA
• STIFTUNG FACHHOCHSCHULE OSNABRUCK
• EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION AISBL
• HAUT CONSEIL DE L’EVALUATION DE LA RECHERCHE ET DE L’ENSEIGNEMENT SUPERIEUR
• ASSOCIATION OF LEBANESE INDUSTRIALISTS