International QA audit procedures
At the request of the International School for Social and Business Studies (ISSBS), Celje, Slovenia, the Agency for Science and Higher Education initiated an external quality asurance audit procedure of ISSBS in September 2014. After audit activities and deadlines have been agreed upon by both ISSBS and ASHE, ASHE Accreditation Council appointed a panel of experts that carried out a site-visit to the institution on 26-27 March 2015. First audit report was adopted in May and submitted to ISSBS in June 2015. During the follow-up phase, ISSBS implemented panel’s recommendations, and upon the completion of this phase in January 2016, the panel drafted the Final audit report on the level of development of ISSBS’s quality assurance system. The report was published on the Agency website in March 2016.
Conferences and seminars
2015
- “Evaluation of Science and Innovation Policies”, Univerity of Manchester/Manchester Business School/Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, Manchester, 1-5 June 2015
- ACA Annual Conference 2015: Internationalisation: from strategy to implementation, Bruxelles, 15-16 June 2015
http://www.aca-secretariat.be/index.php?id=808
- 15th Croatian Conference on Quality and 6th Scientific Assembly of the Croatian Society for Quality, Primošten, 7-9 May 2015 (presentation Osiguravanje kvalitete u sustavu visokog obrazovanja u Republici Hrvatskoj)
- Higher Education Institutions Conference HEIC 2015: Quality & Governance in Higher Education: Leadership in the global context , Dubrovnik, 7-8 May 2015 (presentation Quality Assurance as Catalyst for Change)
- 2015 INQAAHE Conference: Changing landscape of higher education: New demands on quality assurance, Chicago, 30 March – 3 April 2015
http://www.inqaahe.org/main/events-and-proceedings/inqaahe-2015-conference
- 5th ENQA Members Forum 2015, Cordoba, 16-17 April 2015
http://www.enqa.eu/index.php/events/5th-enqa-members-forum-16-17-april-2015-cordoba-spain/
- ECA Working Group Seminar – Institutional Evaluations, Warsaw, 27 April 2015 (presentation ASHE Institutional Audit)
- Round table: New economic policy of Kazahstan „Nurly Zhol – Path to Future“, Dag Hammarskjöld University College of International Relations and Diplomacy, Zagreb, 8 April 2015
- INTED (International Technology, Education and Development) Conference,Madrid, 2-4 March 2015
- CeQuInt Conference: Assessing the Quality of Internationalisation, Paris, 26-27 February 2015
http://ecahe.eu/home/services/events/assessing-the-quality-of-internationalisation/
- 5th Steering Group meeting, ECA Certificate for the Quality of Internationalisation project, Zagreb, 13 January 2015
2014
- DAAD-Academy Seminar: “Accreditation and Evaluation in international perspective”, Berlin, 20-21 November 2014 (presentation ASHE Evaluations in Croatian Higher Education and Science)
- 4th Steering Group meeting, ECA Certificate for the Quality of Internationalisation project, Barcelona, 21 October 2014
- 5th ENQA General Assembly, Zagreb, 16-17 October 2014
http://www.enqa.eu/index.php/events/5th-enqa-general-assembly-16-17-october-2014-zagreb-croatia/
- 7th Annual UK and Ireland Higher Education Institutional Research Conference HEIR 2014: From Research To Action, Oxford, 8-9 September 2014
http://www.heirnetwork.org.uk/events/conference/
- 17th ECA Workshop, 1st Annual Meeting of the association ECA, Working Group II meeting, Porto, 17-18 June 2014
http://ecahe.eu/first-annual-meeting-of-association-eca-held-in-porto/
- 14th Croatian Conference on Quality and 5th Scientific Assembly of the Croatian Society for Quality, Baška, 15-17 May 2014 (presentation Sustavi osiguravanja kvalitete na javnim sveučilištima u Hrvatskoj)
http://www.kvaliteta.net/14hdkkonf.htm
- EQAR Seminar on Cross-Border External QA, Bayreuth, 29-30 April 2014
- European Seminar: Performance Audit in the Public Sector, Berlin, 28-29 April 2014
- 4th ENQA Members Forum 2014, Sankt-Peterburg, 24-26 April 2014
http://www.enqa.eu/index.php/events/4th-enqa-members-forum-24-25-april-2014-st-petersburg-russia/
- 3rd Steering Group meeting, ECA Certificate for the Quality of Internationalisation project, Helsinki, 23 April 2014
2013
- ACA European Policy Seminar „Mobility windows and the internationalisation of the curriculum“, Brussels, 5 December 2013
http://www.aca-secretariat.be/index.php?id=687
- 6th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, Sevilla, 18-20 November 2013
- 8th European Quality Assurance Forum: Working Together to Take Quality Forward, Gothenburg, 21-23 November 2013
http://www.eua.be/activities-services/events/past/2013/EQAF_2013/Home.aspx
- Study visit of Dr Judith Eaton, president of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation – CHEA, USA, to ASHE, Zagreb, 21-22 October 2013 (presentation ASHE and the QA system in the Republic of Croatia).
- European RTD Evaluation Network Meeting, Vilnius, 17-18 October 2013
- 6th Annual HEIR Conference 2013: Progressive Partnerships: Engaging Stakeholders in Institutional Research, Birmingham, 11-12 July 2013 (poster and presentation The role of external stakeholders in Croatian higher education)
- 16th ECA Workshop & Working Group II meeting, Madrid, 19 June 2013
http://ecahe.eu/conclusions-workshop-madrid-2013/
- 1st HEISEE Workshop: Approaches to Strategic Financing of Higher Education – Multiple Perspectives, Zagreb, 4-6 June 2013
http://www.heisee.org/first-heisee-workshop-held-in-zagreb/
- VI International Conference Crisis Management Days, Velika Gorica, 28-29 May 2013
http://www.dku.hr/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Zbornik_radova_2013.pdf
- ‘Promoting quality culture in higher education institutions’ EUA project seminar, Zagreb, 24 May 2013 (presentation Development of Quality culture – ASHE role)
- 13th Croatian Conference on Quality and 4th Scientific Assembly of the Croatian Society for Quality, Brijuni, 9-11 May 2013, (presentation Primjena sustava upravljanja kvalitetom na visokim učilištima RH – Razvoj sustava osiguravanja kvalitete na visokim učilištima)
- 14th National Seminar, Masaryk University: The System of Internal Quality Assurance on HEIs; Telč, 2-3 May 2013 (presentation Re-accreditation of higher education institutions in Croatia)
- INQAAHE 2013 Conference: Managing Diversity: Sustainable quality assurance processes, Taipei, 8-12 April 2013
http://www.inqaahe.org/main/events-and-proceedings/inqaahe-2013-conference
- Study visit to Taiwan Assessment and Evaluation Association (TWAEA), 15-19 April 2013
Presentation (Agency for Science and Higher Education) held at:
– TWAEA, Taipei, 15 April 2013 http://www.twaea.org.tw/eng/about.php
– Feng Chia University, Taichung, 16 April 2013 http://en.fcu.edu.tw/wSite/mp?mp=3
– Chao-Yang University of Technology, Taichung, 16 April 2013 http://web.cyut.edu.tw/bin/home.php?Lang=en
– Hwa Hsia Institute of Technology, Taipei, 17 April 2013 http://english.hwh.edu.tw/
– Taipei Medical University, Taipei, 17 April 2013 http://www.tmu.edu.tw/v3/main.php
– Jinwen University of Science and Technology, Taipei, 18 April 2013 http://en.just.edu.tw/bin/home.php
- 2nd Steering Group meeting, ECA Certificate for the Quality of Internationalisation project, Ljubljana, 28 March 2013