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A pioneer EURASHE international Quality Assurance seminar at EUC

Posted: July 24, 2019

A pioneer international seminar on the implementation of internal and external Quality Assurance (QA) at universities took place at European University Cyprus (EUC) on 27-28 September 2012. The two-day seminar was organized by EURASHE (European Association of Higher Education Institutions) in cooperation with European University Cyprus and Open University of Cyprus, under the auspices of the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Rectors and other senior university officials from 35 countries participated in the seminar, which had two main themes: internal QA processes and instruments for improvement, and implementation of the European Standards and Guidelines for QA at universities. Among the speakers at the seminar were the President of EURASHE and Rector of EUC Prof. Andreas G. Orphanides, the Minister of Education and Culture of Cyprus Dr. George Demosthenous, the European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth Mrs Androulla Vassiliou and QA experts from the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). «The large showing up of academic leaders and QA experts from more than thirty counties», Prof. Orphanides said in his speech, «for what was intended to be a hands-on training seminar, is now a gathering of the ‘community of practice’ in QA, which shows that we have hit the right cord with this initiative, and we hope that every single attendant of the seminar will have the opportunity to be benefitted from and also contribute to it».

 

This EURASHE seminar at EUC as an official event of the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the European Union, is an additional testimony of the leading role that EUC has in the European Higher Education Area. As it is known, the Rector of EUC is currently the President of EURASHE that represents more than 1200 universities and other higher education institutions, and in this capacity he has a leading role in the EHEA and a key role in major developments and decisions concerning higher education in the European Union and in the Bologna Process/EHEA. He also served as President of EQAR (European Register of Quality Assurance), which is the supreme body in Europe that evaluates and accredits the QA and accreditation agencies/bodies operating in Europe. In addition, EUC is one of the forty universities throughout Europe that have been awarded the prestigious ECTS Label by the European Commission.

 

 

2 October 2012