Traduction de «Stabilire obiettivi di garanzia della qualità » (Italien → Anglais) :

“Quality assurance is the basis for building trust in our education systems and we need to make greater use of its potential as a catalyst to modernise our universities and vocational education colleges. Our aim is to drive up standards in a way that encourages diversity and employability rather than uniformity,” said Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth.

The report on higher education sets out how quality assurance is helping to establish quality goals and address challenges such as the expanding student population in Europe, which has grown by more than 25% to 20 million since 2000.

The report on the European quality assurance reference framework for vocational education (EQAVET) shows that it has also helped develop a quality culture, through support such as an online tool to build and monitor quality assurance systems, and by encouraging the sharing of experience and best practice through the EQAVET network.

(b) coordinated governance of European and national instruments in the areas of transparency, recognition, quality assurance and mobility— in line with the four strategic objectives, coherent and complementary use of the various European and national instruments in the areas of transparency, recognition, quality assurance and mobility should be a high priority for the Member States in the coming years.

common European tools specifically aimed at VET, by: developing and testing a European Credit Transfer System for VET (ECVET) as a tool for credit accumulation and transfer, taking into account the specificities of VET and the experience gained with the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) in higher education; strengthening cooperation on quality improvement by using the European Network of Quality Assurance for VET (ENQA-VET) to support the creation of a common understanding on quality assurance and to foster mutual trust. Cooperation with higher education should be continued; common European tools in which VET pla ...[+++]ys a major role, by: developing and testing a European Qualifications Framework (EQF) based on learning outcomes, providing greater parity and better links between the VET and HE sectors and taking account of international sectoral qualifications; further developing EUROPASS as the single European framework for transparency, and tools for the recognition of non-formal and informal learning, in order to support and complement the introduction of EQF and ECVET.

Under the Community Initiative for SMEs, the following priority areas will be assisted in Thuringia: - quality assurance - training and further training - environmental protection and efficient use of energy - development of new markets These four priorities break down into the following measures: Quality assurance covers in particular the introduction of comprehensive quality management and training courses to enable employees of individual firms to undertake better quality management.