In this perspective, a European Network of competent bodies for quality assurance and development in VET has been established at the initiative of the European Commission following the favourable opinion of the Advisory Committee for Vocational Training on 16-17 June 2005. The Network has been set up on a voluntary basis, and its purpose was outlined in the Commission’s proposal to the ACVT

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This report was prepared with participation of the QA Coordinators, who provided information for their respective programs and the laboratory based on requirements in the Quality Management Plan. A list of the Program and Laboratory QA Coordinators is given in Appendix A, and the information they provided is included in Appendix B.

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The programme of Subject Reviews commissioned by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), and organised by QAA in 2000/01, is reviewed in this paper. The Subject Review process, which sought to assess the quality of higher education in England and Northern Ireland in individual subject disciplines, is explained, and evaluated critically from the viewpoint of a subject reviewer. The pros and cons of the approach as a mechanism for ensuring quality are discussed, based on the...

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The paper gives a brief account of the present scenario of post-graduate LIS programs, identifies the basic issues regarding quality library and information studies education (LISE) in Pakistan, and suggests the possible measures for QA in Pakistan. The multi-method approach was used to collect the data for this study based on survey, interviews, focus group, discussions with peers and observation and experience of the author.

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There has always been an individual and social need to improve the quality of life of people, including the quality of what they learn over many years of organized schooling, how they learn it, and why they learn it. Concerns about the quality of higher education are also not recent, being an intrinsic part of any discussion on the subject. Over the years, various developments have taken place relative to the assessment, monitoring, and improvement of the quality of different components of...

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Due to the increasingly vocal interventions of civil society actors and of multinational business actors, the scope of diplomacy has broadened from traditional state-to-state actors to state and the inclusion of non-state actors (Saner & Yiu, 2002) thereby resulting in a multitude of new challenges for Ministries of Foreign Affairs and traditional diplomats. Learning new skills and acquiring new knowledge is no longer a “nice to have”, it has become an absolute necessity for today’s...

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The overall goal of a well-designed and well-implemented sampling and analysis program is to meas-ure accurately what is really there. Environmental decisions are made on the assumption that analytical results are, within known limits of accuracy and precision, representative of site conditions. Many sources of error exist that could affect the analytical results, including sample collection methods; sample han-dling, preservation, and transport; personnel training; analytical methods; data...

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This document contains guidelines for the quality assurance of vocational edu-cation and training (VET) in Europe. The guidelines are based on research into quality assurance within case study institutions providing healthcare VET in six EU countries: Demark, Estonia, Germany, United Kingdom (England), Italy and the Netherland.

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The purpose of the QA/QC Program is to ensure the quality of the information and results generated by US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) fish health centers (FHC) for fish health inspection and diagnostic assays. The personnel of each laboratory are to be familiar with the QA/QC Program described in this document, and implement its policies and procedures at all times.

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This publication precedes a more substantial comparative study – currently in progress in Cedefop – on accreditation of VET providers in assuring the quality in VET.

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The purpose of these guidelines is to define the Quality Assurance (QA) organization, tasks and responsibilities; provide reference documents and guidelines to perform the QA activities; provide the standards, practices and conventions used in carrying out QA activities; and provide tools, techniques, and methodologies to support QA activities and reporting.

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This paper examines the current academic and policy literatures surrounding quality assurance in tertiary education. It provides a typology of existing national quality assurance mechanisms, in addition to presenting the advantages and disadvantages of different quality assurance systems. Finally, it provides an account of the current empirical evidence on the effects of quality assurance mechanisms.

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