On 25 April, NAQA attended ENQA webinar: “The future of external QA: Perspectives from agencies”, which aimed to review the key findings of the QA-FIT project on the scope of ESG and flexibility of approaches to external quality assurance in higher education, so that stakeholders and representatives of quality assurance agencies could explore the prospects and implications of these issues for the future activities of their agencies.
The QA-FIT project aims to analyse the use and implementation of ESG 15 in different contexts, to address the perception of the ESG as a current EHEA framework that limits responsiveness to trends and innovations in higher education, and to explore the possibilities of developing alternative approaches to quality assurance.
The webinar featured presentations by Elena Cirlan, ENQA Senior Policy and Project Coordinator, on QA-FIT’s findings based on survey data and discussions with quality assurance agencies, Mirella Nordblad, FINEEC (Finland) Counsellor of Evaluation, and Robert Redhammer, SAAHE (Slovakia) Chair of the Executive Board, who shared their reflections on ESG 2015 from the perspective of an agency that has long implemented ESG and an agency that has recently completed the process, as well as Douglas Blackstock, ENQA President.