Internal quality assurance system for agriculture and biosystem engineering related HEI of Algeria

Abstract

The project reflects the priority of Algerian Government to implement the quality assurance system in higher education. This system was not in place till now. The HEI's are having as a target to set up their institutional quality assurance systems and to put in place all necessary measures. The main objective of this project is to enhance the management, governance and innovation capacities, as well as the internationalization of HEIs. Project is national joint project. Three Algerian HEI's in the field of agriculture and biosystems engineering, as beneficiary partners, in collaboration with partners from Lithuania and Estonia will work on: - offering new institutional capacity in internal quality assurance system (IQAS) within recipient HEI. This system will be developed by local Algerian experts previously trained in European partner institutions, thus the ownership of results will be ensured; - transfer of European experience for local staff during training sessions in European universities and following update of skills in real case situations in implementing and testing the IQAS at home institutions; - Algerian partner institutions will get the guidance and piloting in preparing self-evaluation reports and will go through external pilot evaluation by an European evaluation institution with the following sharing of experiences and lessons among partners and other stakeholders; - exploitation of project results will include transferring of project recommendations to national policy makers in higher education contributing to the national policy and methodology of quality assurance in HEI in Algeria. Long term project impact on participating HEI's , other stakeholders (including other HEI's), also on national quality assurance policies in higher education in Algeria is envisaged.