QUALITY GUIDELINES Transfer
For vocational education and further education schemes, there is a need for a high quality navigation system to facilitate the running of education services as regards content, method, and organisation as well as monitoring and management of the education service provider. The European quality dimension of the labour and education market also needs cross-border standards of good practice to support quality development among education service providers in line with the Common Quality Assurance Framework. Cross-border mobility of employees and transnational education projects require comparable quality standards in the field of education and further education.
Bearing this in mind, the pilot project "Transnational Quality Project" (TQP-EU) improved the QUALITY GUIDELINES and compiled implementation assistance in a compendium. The QUALITY GUIDELINES define requirements for a quality-based design of transnational education for business-oriented vocational training organisations. The QUALITY GUIDELINES are aimed at improving the learning-oriented framework for international educational cooperation and creating a solid basis for mutual trust.
The QuaG project serves the adaption, expansion, and dissemination of the requirements defined in the QUALITY GUIDELINES as well as of the previously elaborated implementation aids. This instrument shall be adapted to the international standard ISO 29990 "Learning services for non-formal education and training - Basic requirements for learning providers" and improved using gathered experiences from different European countries and associations. The instruments for implementing the QUALITY GUIDELINES, fixed in the compendium, will be adapted and enlarged analogously. In addition, an online tool for the introduction and application of the QUALITY GUIDELINES will be newly developed. The dissemination, valorisation, and further development of the QUALITY GUIDELINES will take place in twelve workshops with potential users of the QUALITY GUIDELINES in Europe.
The QuaG project involves eight partners with a range of quality management expertise. Additionally, different types of institutions are represented in the project - from a private company, a public school to an international association. Four partners have already taken part in the previous Leonardo da Vinci project TQP. This set of partners does not only allow taking into account different needs and perspectives but also assures the continuity of the previous project and the transfer of gathered experiences.
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Previous Leonardo da Vinci "Transnational Quality Project" (TQP)
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