Quality and Evaluation Board

Members

The Quality and Evaluation Board (QEB) is composed of:

• One representative of the AP ACPUA.
• Up to five representatives of national QA agencies (one per agency).
• Six QA experts from the partner institutions.
• Two representatives of the SA.

Role

The QEB monitors reports and policies and provides suggestions and feedback to the GB. It is in charge of the UNITA and its constellation projects’ QA policy, processes and practices through self-assessment and evaluation involving students and external stakeholders. It ensures the implementation, transparency, and fulfillment of the project’s mission statement and long-term vision; carries out monitoring actions (including on indicators and budget); and identifies and shares good practices to pursue continuous improvement.

Frequency

The QEB meets once every two months. At least once per semester, one meeting is held physically at the same location as the GB meeting, and one by videoconference.

Responsibilities

• Defining and regularly updating Guidelines for UNITA’s QA, benchmarking the current guidelines in the partner Universities.
• Contributing to the shared documents defining project quality standards and monitoring rules, it publishes an annual self-assessment report on Good Practices which will be disseminated.
• Monitoring through a Quality Review Checklist the project’s cost-benefit assessment and effectiveness, the achievement of objectives with their time and costs, and the stakeholders’ satisfaction, as expected within a QA framework. The findings and recommendations are synthetized in a biannual Quality Review Report.
• Provide a comprehensive analysis of UNITA’s modus operandi and summarize it in an overall Self-Assessment Report on Good Practices, published and disseminated at international higher-education conferences and among associated members of the Alliance and sister Romance languages Universities in the EU and overseas.