Another highlight of the project was
an internal and external audit within the two of the main state further and
higher education institutions, namely MCAST and the ITS. This was conducted as
part of the development process leading to the launch of the external audit
system. The experience of conducting such an audit was innovative in itself
with ACQUIN, a German higher education quality assurance agency with extensive
national and cross-border experience, providing the lead in this external audit
process as the transnational partner in the project. The project also assisted
NCFHE in building its capacity to support an external audit, and equally
important to familiarise all local institutions with audit procedures including
self-assessment. In addition, 30 student evaluators with vocational and
tertiary education backgrounds, 40 peer experts, and 4 NCFHE members of staff
were trained in various aspects related to external quality audits.
The Project partners were:
The University of Malta
The Malta College for Arts, Science andTechnology (MCAST)
The Institute for Tourism Studies (ITS)
The Department for Lifelong Learning
ACQUIN, the transnational partner of the project
and an established cross-border Higher Education Quality Assurance Agency based
in Germany.
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