Twinning
project carried out another mission within the Activity 3.6 Conduct training
for external reviewers, establish a pool of trained reviewers from 9 to 13
September 2019.
The mission
was implemented by Ms. Rasa Penkauskiene, Head of Institutional Review Division
at the Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education (SKVC) of Lithuania
and Ms. Jolanta Silka, Director of the Quality Agency for Higher Education of
Latvia (AIKA).
The purpose
of the mission was to deliver trainings for external experts and to develop a
pool of trained reviewers for the Accreditation Department. The trained
academic staff will also be involved in mock programme accreditations to be
staged by the Twinning project in pilot universities.
The three
day-trainings brought together members of academic staff representing various
fields of study from both pilot and non-pilot higher education institutions of
the project and also independent higher education experts selected by the
Twinning office and the Accreditation Department of the Ministry of Education.
The
Twinning project experts who acted as trainers informed the training
participants about the aims and objectives of the study programme accreditation and introduced
them to the Methodology of Programme Accreditation developed jointly by the
Twinning experts and Accreditation Department staff.
The participants were also trained on tasks and ethics of the external
evaluator, how to work with self-evaluation reports, interviewing techniques, on
how to write an evaluation report, how to provide good recommendations to
universities for further improvement and many other important aspects of being
a reviewer.
The
practical part of the trainings focused on simulations of a work on
self-evaluation reports, interviews and also writing good recommendations for
the universities.
The second
stage of trainings are planned to be held later this month.