Services
1. Policy guidance and system development
Policy guidance on quality assurance and regulation in higher education and vocational education, development of legislation for quality assurance and regulation; development of organisational structures incl. quality assurance agencies, and quality assurance procedures; development of institutional quality assurance systems; thematic analyses.
Strengthening institutional capacities of the Agency for Quality Assurance in Education in Azerbaijan (EU funding).
Achim is senior expert for accreditation and quality assurance in HE and VET, and for recognition of foreign qualifications.
Tasks
- Analysis of national legislation on higher education, vocational education, recognition of foreign qualifications and quality assurance in higher education
- Analysis of national quality assurance system
- Development of new accreditation standards and procedures
- Development of new recognition procedures
- Training for staff of agency
- Supervision of pilot accreditation procedures
Evaluation of the Quality Enhancement Framework 2 of the Quality Board for Icelandic Higher Education and proposal for next phase.
2. Training/Review support
Training of and support to leadership and staff of higher education institutions and quality assurance agencies in the preparation of external evaluations; including support in preparing self-evaluation material reports and training for site-visits.
3. International review/evaluation
Review of higher education institutions and quality assurance agencies as panel chair, secretary or member. Recently accomplished external evaluations (selection):
2022
- Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
- Malta College for Arts, Sciences and Technology, La Valetta, Malta
- Valencian Agency for Quality Assurance and Forecast (AVAP); Spain
- Vietnam National University – Centre for Education Accreditation (VNU-CEA); Vietnam
- Commission on Higher Education (CHED), The Philippines
2021
- European University Institute, Florence, Italy
2020
- Hong Kong Council of Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications (HKCAAVQ)
2019
- German University of Technology, Muscat, Oman
4. Development of Cross-border Higher Education policies
Policy guidance on incoming and outgoing cross-border higher education (CBHE) and development of legislation and quality assurance and regulation procedures for CBHE; development of institutional CBHE policies and organisational structures.
- Background document “UNESCO-OECD Guidelines for Quality Provision in Cross-border Higher Education. Analysis and recommendations to move forward” commissioned by UNESCO for the UNESCO World Higher Education Conference 18-20 May 2022 (Download PDF)
- Development of a Roadmap to Automatic Recognition for the European Universities alliance T4E (2022)
- Development of a quality assurance system for the European Universities Alliance EUTOPIA (2021)