Tags: Qualität in der Berufsbildung

p&w praxis und wissenschaft projekt will be partner on the BEQUAL project, which is dedicated the development and testing of benchmarking instruments for quality assurance in VET.

Quality assurance is a European priority for education and training in order to make Europe's education and training systems a world quality reference by 2010. The Common Quality Assurance Framework for VET in Europe (CQAF) is the main instrument for achieving this goal.

The application of the CQAF at national /regional systems and at training providers is very limited. In Greece, Spain and France there is no evidence that the CQAF is applied at all, while Germany and Romania there have been some attempts but still there is a lot to do, especially at the level of training providers.

The objectives of the BEQUAL project are to fill this gap by developing:

• an electronic benchmarking tool, which will allow training providers in VET to online benchmark their quality approach against CQAF core criteria and database collections of good practice.

• a web based "quality sharing network" in VET, which will be based on quality profiles gained through benchmarking and will enable training providers to ad hoc search for CQAF compliant good practice matching with their internal quality process.

• "good practice centre", which will give access to online Communities of Practice (VET policy makers, VET institutes, researchers and practitioners) and quality sources.

• a thematic portal that will be the main reference point for practitioners, researchers and policy makers that are looking for information for quality assurance in VET training institutes.

The project is expected to have a significant impact on the promotion of CQAF at VET institutes across Europe and on building on-line Communities of Practice. The target groups of the project are VET providers, policy makers and stakeholders in VET.

The partnership is composed by 7 partners from 5 European countries. The leader is IDEC and partners are: OBES, IFCIL, FiaTest, FLORIDA, P&W and the Association of Learning Regions in Germany.

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