Workshop II: Institutional Assessment Programme (Lebanon)

Description of the Activity:
Special attention will be paid to the programme created by the German Assessment and Accreditation Agency (ASIIN) which serves to analyse the quality of curricula and to improve them. This programme will be studied in theory and on practical examples and case studies. UA will be explaining the methodology applied by in the Standards and Guidelines for European Higher Education Institutions and some case studies with comments on the lessons learned.

A workshop module will be performed for each of the 6 criteria of the Institutional programme including: 1) Study programme
2) Teaching organization
3) Human resources
4) Material resources
5) Program process
6) Results

Training will be also be delivered on the assessment process itself and how to successfully perform the assessment, special attention will be placed on the following topics:
i) selection and task of the assessment committee
ii) ii) how to write and present a self-assessment form and improvement actions plan.

Outputs: The actions aims to provide partner institutions with a unique and coherent methodology for the assessment of the university study programs and will give the tools for a successful assessment process. The methodology will be translated from English to French and Arabic.

The consortium member/s or experts who will carry out the activity:
ASIIN will be responsible for carrying this workshop
Organizer: Beirut Arab University

Target group/s:
1DQU per AUs (10); 1 AU manager per institution (10), 1 MEM per ministery (5) and 1manager from AArU Total participants: 26p Ministry of Education and Higher education Managers will be invited to participate: expected number of participants: over 100p