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From academic year 2023-2024 onwards, ECBE will offer institutional accreditation on top of program accreditation

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A major strand of our new Strategic Plan is to support our current and growing membership. In order to do that we’ve been working hard to better define the value proposition for members receive when they are part of ECBE. To assist with that we’ve produced this short Membership Guide that showcases those benefits. Please familiarise yourself with its contents and if you want to take advantage of any of the benefits listed please email office@ecbe.eu. Alternatively, contact a member of the Executive Committee to discuss your needs and we’ll be more than happy to assist.

You can download the document here.

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After the consultation of all stakeholders, as announced in the news item of November 18th, 2022, ECBE management published the Strategic Plan 2022-2025.

You can download the document here.

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Register for FREE to the 2023 Annual Conference, 25th & 26th May (via Zoom)

We wrote to all member institutions recently to announce the 2023 Annual Conference. Hopefully colleagues have shared that information with you already. However, it’s not too late to register and we have an absolutely fantastic programme on offer. Keynote speakers include international quality assurance expert Lucien Bollaert (Ghent University) and Asnate Kažoka (AIC, the Latvian Quality Assurance Agency). The programme also includes sessions for PhD researchers, university managers, academic colleagues and anyone with an interest in quality assurance. Attendance is COMPLETELY FREE for all academics, staff and students from member institutions. So please share this newsletter with your whole University community. All you have to do to register is email doa@ecbe.eu with your name and institution.

Download the full conference programme, speaker biographies and joining instructions

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Lucien Bollaert, International QA expert, Ghent University

Keynote 2: Beyond the ESG - Perspectives on Changing Standards

Lucien Bollaert is independent international QA expert and visiting professor on QA systems. Currently he is member of the Quality Education Board of Ghent
University assessing programmes with a new IQA system he helped to develop as well as the next one, and involved in its European University Alliance, ENLIGHT.
He is also member of the Flemish Higher Education Commission, member of the Portuguese A3ES Science Council, and leading IQA expert in the World Bank project on reforming QA in Uzbekistan.

Recently he was member of the institutional review teams for the Irish QQI, being a former member of its Policy and Strategy Committee, for HEA, and for Louvain University mid-term review. He is the author of an inspiring best-seller, “A Manual for IQA in HE - Looking for a new quality in HE in a new world” (EURASHE: Brussels, 2019, 2nd edition) and of peer- re-viewed articles. In 2020 he was co-author of the “Guide for effective Stakeholders’ Involvement in Quality Assurance”. He is a keynote speaker on QA, Quality Culture, Strategy and Governance of HEIs, LOs and QFs at yearly international conferences such as EQAF, of which he is a co-founder, and the Eurasian QA Forum. After being member of the ESG (2005) E4 group, he became vice-chair of EQAR’s Register Committee (2008-2016). 

He was board member of the NVAO, ECA, AEQES and EQ-Arts. He has been on technical assistance Missions in Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Tunisia and Ukraine. He was also member of EQF 1st expert committee.

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Asnate Kažoka, Head of Development and International Cooperation Unit, Academic Information Centre (AIC), Latvia

Keynote 1: Institutional and Programmatic Standards

Asnate Kažoka currently serves as the Head of Development and International Cooperation Unit for the Latvian Quality Agency for Higher Education which is the national body responsible for quality assurance in higher education in Latvia. She has been involved in development and revision of all assessment guidelines and methodologies used by the agency. Her previous experience includes a position at the Quality Management and Audit Department of the University of Latvia where she was responsible for developing and maintaining internal quality management system of the university. She has been involved in higher education policy discussions on the national and European level and acted as national Bologna expert. She serves as external expert for a number of quality assurance agencies in Europe and has performed programme, cluster and institutional reviews. She also cooperates with the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) and performs reviews of quality assurance agencies.

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Congratulations to United International Business Schools (UIBS) whose PhD and DBA programs have been re-accredited for 4 years. The review team praised the institution’s comprehensive quality assurance policies and processes, study adviser system, international faculty and the personal connection between doctoral candidates and teaching staff. The team also identified a series of recommendations for further improvement.

Download the full review report
Download the Commissioners' report
Download the decision letter

View the accreditation history of United International Business Schools.

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Next year will be busy for ECBE members as we start implementing the Strategic Plan

We also will launch our new webinar series and undertake a number of accreditation visits. In addition, next Fall we intend to bring together the Heads of all member institutions for a meeting in Brussels to provide you with a strategic update and discuss key developments across the agency. Please take the opportunity to place these events in your diary and we will write to you with further details shortly:

• Extraordinary AGM - 1st April 2023
• Annual Conference - 25th & 26th May 2023
• AGM - 29th June 2023
• Heads of Institution Meeting (Brussels) - 8th September 2023
• Reviewer Training - 11th September 2023
• Webinar Series for 2023/24 launches - 9th October

All events will take place online unless specified otherwise.

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We are preparing a new strategy, and we need your help.

We are launching this newsitem in the midst of an exciting new period of development at the agency. The coming months will see us prepare and launch our new strategy and advance a broad programme of work surrounding our brand, value proposition for members and the development of new standards. We are also in the process of refining our programme accreditation process to make it more accessible for member institutions. In the coming months we look forward to sharing more detailed insight into this work.
Central to these developments is the construction and delivery of ECBE’s new strategic plan to cover the period up to and including 2025. With that in mind we have launched a consultation period and are inviting stakeholders to engage with the process. A range of potential themes have been identified and the Board of Directors is eager to hear from member institutions and others about what they believe the organisation’s priorities should be for the next 4 years. The deadline for taking part in the consultation is 16th December 2022.

Take part in the consultation now!

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Congratulations to the University of Maribor’s Faculty of Logistics!

University of Maribor’s Faculty of Logistics become the latest institution to have programmes re-accredited with ECBE. The review team praised the University for it’s excellent learning resources as well as identifying a series of recommendations for further improvement.

Read the full accreditation report and the decision letter; view the accreditation history of University of Maribor’s Faculty of Logistics 

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We are delighted to announce that Dr. Tornike Khoshtaria has been appointed as a Senior Reviewer.

Dr Khoshtaria is currently Associate Professor of Marketing and Dean of Healthcare Economics and Management Faculty at University Geomedi. An experienced reviewer for ECBE, Tornike has also worked for the Kosovo Accreditation Agency (KAA) as well as for agencies in Latvia, Kazakhstan and his native Georgia. We hope you will join us in congratulating Dr Khoshtaria as he assumes his leadership role within the organisation.

Consult Tornike's profile.

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