INQAAHE Forum 2024
Transforming Society: Social Reponsibility trough Quality Assurance of Tertiary Education
June 10, 2024
Workshop 1
Skill up with the ISGs: a hands-on workshop to make innovation an everyday habit
This workshop is designed for responsibles of internal and external quality assurance systems of tertiary education organizations - TEIs and their QA bodies. Through an interactive and engaging design-thinking workshop, the participants will have a chance to experience hands-on techniques for development, implementation and cyclical evaluation of an internal quality assurance system fit to serve diverse purposes: preparation of external QA bodies for a review against the INQAAHE's ISGs, establishment of internal systems that are feasible, relevant, efficient and impactful enough to drive organizational changes/transformations. A value added of the workshop will be insights into data-driven governance to support internal QA systems in diverse tertiary education contexts.
Facilitated by:
Dr. Susanna Karakhanyan
Dr. Susanna Karakhanyan is employed by the Abu Dhabi Government as Higher Education Policy & Regulation Director at the Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge in the United Arab Emirates. She consults governments on policymaking, governance as well as external and internal QA systems in a diversity of contexts globally. Dr. Karakhanyan’s expertise evolves around tertiary education in general and policymaking, governance and quality assurance in particular. She authors and delivers capacity building events and external reviews of governance structures, legal frameworks and QA systems worldwide. She has authored, initiated and has been implementing a variety of projects under the auspices of the Council of Europe, UNESCO, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, Open Society Institute, IREX, to name some. All the projects address higher education reforms in general and diversity of aspects in legal frameworks, governance and quality assurance, in particular (e.g. Tajikistan, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan). One of the most recent achievements is leading development of INQAAHE International Standards and Guidelines 2022, which make a first attempt to introduce quality assurance standards for micro-credentials, both formal and non-formal provisions. Dr. Karakhanyan holds M.S.Ed in Educational Administration/Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania, the USA and PhD in Social Sciences from Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Her research interests focus around higher education governance and administration, reforms, policymaking, policy diffusion and transfer, and external and internal quality assurance. Her research background has helped her tremendously in the establishment of new and evaluation/review of existing tertiary education systems, including, but not limited to external and internal (both quality assurance agencies and higher education institutions) quality assurance systems in a diversity of contexts at the global level.
Dr. Anna Prades
Dr. Anna Prades sits in the Board of Directors of the International Network for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (INQAAHE) as Treasurer, since October 2021. She is Head of Internationalisation and Knowledge Generation Department of AQU Catalunya, where she has been working since 2001. She has a degree in Psychology (1996) and a PhD in Pedagogy (2005) from the University of Barcelona. During the last years, her main endeavour in AQU Catalunya has been the building up of a system of evidences for quality assurance (official descriptors, academic indicators, assessment results, graduates and employer surveys) and the integration of these indicators in a platform for public information in order to generate trust in the Catalan Higher Education System (EUC studies).
Dr. Ariana De Vincenzi
Dr. Ariana De Vincenzi holds a PhD in Education from the University of San Andrés, Argentina, as well as a bachelor’s degree in Educational Sciences from the Argentine Catholic University. Currently, she serves as the Academic Vice-rector at the Universidad Abierta Interamericana of Argentina. She holds positions as a consultant for international universities and advises public organizations. From 2016 to 2023, she served as the Academic Secretary for the Network of Associations of Private Latin American and Caribbean Universities (REALCUP). In 2023, she was appointed as a Director of the Board of the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE).
As a prolific scholar, Dr. De Vincenzi contributes to the advancement of knowledge through her editorial role in several international scientific journals and her extensive publications, which include articles, book chapters, and authoritative texts on enhancing the quality of teaching and learning in higher education. She has been an institutional peer reviewer for the National Commission for University Evaluation and Accreditation (CONEAU) in Argentina and has served as an international evaluator for INQAAHE, where she assesses the compliance of Higher Education Quality Assurance Agencies with the Guidelines of Good Practices (GGP).
If you have any question about the event, please do not hesitate to contact INQAAHE and/or the Forum host, ARACIS.
