Annex 16, ENQA Board meeting, 21 June 2018 Item 7.1 – External review of ENQA Agency Reviews ENQA External Review A. Nominations and expressions of interest -ENQA External Review Steering Group I. Context: As by the decision of the General Assembly in April 2018, to ensure the independence of the ENQA External Reviews (including the appointment of the peer review panel and the supervision of the review process), a steering committee will be established. The steering committee will be composed of: - Three representatives of ENQA’s members (based on expressions of interests received from members through an open call, excluding current ENQA Board members). - Three representatives of the main stakeholder bodies (ESU, EUA and EURASHE were each asked to nominate one person for this task). The steering committee will have the following main tasks: - Draft the terms of reference for the external review. The terms of reference will define the scope of the review, the basis of the review, the methodology to be used, the timeline, and the price; - Evaluate the proposal for tenders received and select the tenderer; - Contract the external review coordinator on behalf of ENQA; - Approve of the review method proposed by the review coordinator, based on the terms of reference; - Approve of the proposed panel of reviewers (after consulting ENQA Sceretariat on possible conflicts of interest regarding the proposed experts), and; - Approve of the final report. II. Nominations and expressions of interest received by the deadline of 4 June Nominated stakeholder representatives: EUA – Tia Loukkola (F) , Direcor for Institutional Development, EUA EURASHE – Juan Carlos Hernandez Buades (M), CEO of Sant Paul CEU Andalusia Foundation, Spain ESU – Aleksandar Šušnjar (M) , ESU Executive Committee Member, Croatia Expressions of interest (in alphabetical order): 1. Axel Aerden (M), Director for Flaanders, NVAO, the Netherlands 2. Alberto Amaral (M), President of the Administration Council, A3ES, Portugal NB. A3ES will be undergoing a review in 2018-2019 1/3 1/16 Annex 16, ENQA Board meeting, 21 June 2018 Item 7.1 – External review of ENQA Agency Reviews 3. Anne-Marie Jolly (F), Vice-president, CTI, France NB. CTI will be undergoing a review in 2018-2019 4. Dražan Kozak (M), Vice-Rector for education and students, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia, and recent former member of the ASHE Accreditation Council 5. Heli Mattisen (F), Director, EKKA, Estonia NB. Heli is currently a member of ENQA Appeals Committee 6. Antonio Serrano (M), Director, ACPUA, Spain 7. Erika Soboleva (F), Director, AKKORK, the Russian Federation III. Required action and next steps: The Board will need to select the three agency representatives from among the expressions of interest received based on: - The individual’s experience and expertise (CV’s annexed) - Consider diversity in terms of geography and gender, the profile of the agency, as well as the profile of the nominated stakeholder representatives. Should consensus not be reached, the single majority vote of the Board will determine the selected committee members. The GA will endorse the steering committee in a written procedure (by email). The proposal submitted to the GA will include the list of all nominees and the justifications for the proposed composition. Annex: CV’s related to expressions of interests 2/3 2/16 Annex 16, ENQA Board meeting, 21 June 2018 Item 7.1 – External review of ENQA Agency Reviews B. Composition of the ENQA self-assessment group According to the proposal submitted to and approved by the General Assembly in April 2018, the ENQA self-assessment group will compose of: - Two Board members - Two secretariat staff members (the Reviews’ Manager and the Director/Deputy Director) - A former Board members currently working a in a review committee. Eligible candidates for the latter are: Padraig Walsh, Fiona Crozier and Achim Hopbach (the external member of the fourth review committee, Nuria Comet, has never been a Board member). Required action: The Board is required to: 1) discuss and agree on two Board members who can take part in the self-assessment group. The secretariat recommends that the time commitment related to the task is carefully taken into consideration in this process. 2) Provide their feedback on the staff members to take part in the group. 3) Select a priority list of at least two candidates from the review committee, who will subsequently asked to take part in the group. 3/3 3/16 Annex 16, ENQA Board meeting, 21 June 2018 Item 7.1 – External review of ENQA Agency Reviews Curriculum Vitae Personal information Name: Axel AERDEN Address: Meuterweg 7, BE-3050 Oud-Heverlee Email address: [email protected] Phone number: +32 479 334 809 Nationality: Belgian Date of birth: 24 July 1973 Language skills Mother tongue: Dutch Other languages (from the highest to the lowest degree of proficiency) Language 1: English Language 2: French Language 3: German Language 4: Swedish Education Year Institution Degree/course 1998 - 1999 UCL International Relations & Diplomacy 1998 - 1999 KU Leuven PG Brewing Techniques 1996 - 1998 KU Leuven MA Political Sciences 1994 - 1996 KU Leuven Kand. Social Sciences Work experience Current Position: Coordinator QA Flanders Current Employer: NVAO Experience in Quality Assurance of Higher Education: Extensive at all levels Experience in external reviews of quality assurance agencies, if any: Once as coordinator and twice as panel member Other expertise: Internationalisation of higher education, learning outcomes, international & intercultural learning outcomes, QA of joint programmes, recognition issues, fraud in HE, etc. 4/16 Annex 16, ENQA Board meeting, 21 June 2018 Item 7.1 – External review of ENQA Agency Reviews Other relevant work experience: Coordinator of the Certificate for Quality in Internationalisation (offered by 12 QA agencies), elected member of the General Council of the European Association for International Education, policy advisor on joint programme development Other relevant information: I prepared a Worldbank project with Armenia in 2010-2011 focused on the development of internal QA at institutions and followed up with institutional audits. My role concerned the project development and contracting phase. After this phase I distanced myself from the further implementation and never took part in project activities. 5/16 Annex 16, ENQA Board meeting, 21 June 2018 Item 7.1 – External review of ENQA Agency Reviews Name: Alberto M.S.C AMARAL Alberto Amaral was awarded a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry (1968) at the University of Cambridge, UK. [1986-1998] – Rector of the Universidade do Porto. [1998 to 2008] - Director of the Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies. [2008 to present] – President of the Administration Council of the Portuguese Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education Former Member of the Steering Committee for the Institutional Quality Audit Program of the EUA (Association of European Universities). Chair of the Peer Review Team for the Institutional Quality Audits of the following universities: Las Palmas (Spain), Autónoma of Barcelona (Spain), Twente (Netherlands), Venice (Italy), Catania (Italy), Tampere (Finland), Bogadicio (Turkey), Thessaloniki (Greece), Talca (Chile), Potschefstroom (South Africa), Lima (Peru), Medical University of Tbilisi (Georgia), Open University of Barcelona (Spain), Universities of Selcuk, Hacettepe, Kadir Has and Izmir University of Economics(Turkey). Chair of the Peer Review Team of the follow-up of the Institutional Quality Audits of the Universities of Venice, Autónoma de Barcelona and Talca. Chair of the Peer Review Team of the Italian Research Network INCA (environment chemistry) and of its follow-up. Chair of the Review Team of the Hungarian Accreditation Agency (funded by the World Bank). Chair of the Review Teams of Pontifícia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra and Instituto Politécnico de Santo Domingo, for the Secretaria de Estado de Educación Superior, Ciência y Tecnologia, Republica Dominicana. Chair of review teams of programmes financed by the Flemish VLIR at University of Western Cape (South Africa) and Nairobi (Quenia). Participated in the accreditation of Columbia University, New York, and University of Nis, Serbia. Promoted the implementation of Institutional Quality Audits in Brazil - Federal University of Pernambuco, State University of Rio de Janeiro and Federal University of Pará. Report on the recognition of Ticino as a university canton, Swiss Federal Government. Reviewer for the program “Interuniversity Attraction Poles (IAP)”, Belgium Government and for the European Science Foundarion. Books Amaral, A., Jones, A.G. and Karseth, B. (eds.) (2002), Governing Higher Education: National Perspectives on Institutional Governance, Amsterdam, KLUWER. Amaral, A., Meek, V.L. and Larsen, I (eds.) (2003), “The Higher Education Managerial Revolution?”, Dordrecht, Kluwer. Teixeira, P., Jongbloed, B., Dill, D. and Amaral, A. (eds) (2004), Markets in Higher Education: Rhetoric or Reallity?, Dordrecht, Kluwer. Gornitzka, A., Kogan, M. and Amaral, A. (ed.), (2005) Reform and Change in Higher education: Analysing Policy Implementation, Dordrecht: Springer. Amaral, A., Bleiklie, I. and Musselin, C. (eds.) (2008), From Governance to Identity, Dordrecht, Springer. Amaral, A., Rovio-Johansson, A., Rosa, M.J. and Westerheijden, D. (eds.) (2008), Essays on Supportive Peer Review, New York, Nova Science Publishers. Amaral, A., Neave, G., Maassen, P. and Musselin, C. (eds.)