Enhancing Quality Assurance Management in Higher Education in Tunisia

Programme title: Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education

Programme number: Call EAC/A02/2019 - Selection Year 2020

Application Reference number: 617742-EPP-1-2020-1-ES-EPPKA2-CBHE-SP

Application Title: Enhancing Quality Assurance Management in Higher Education in Tunisia

Involved Regions: Region 3 - South Mediterranean Countries

Priorities targeted by the project

• Capacity building on Quality assurance (QA) processes and mechanisms.

• Governance, strategic planning and management of higher education institutions.

• Internationalization of higher education institutions.

Main objective

Assist Tunisia in its ambition to strengthen QA systems and their adequacy with the immediate and direct needs of society, while meeting the expectations of the international community.

The project specifically addresses the development, application and results of QA in HE, whether at the institutional or curricular or teaching level, as well as the strengthening of QA systems and the achievement of capacity building for staff of Tunisian universities, as well as improvement of the culture of quality in the HE system in general.

Specific objectives

Co-construction, by the key actors, of a roadmap or reference framework describing the detailed requirements necessary to implement and/or improve the functions and procedures of QA at the institutional but also programmatic level and to align the internal and external QA.
Development of a white paper aimed at informing the main Tunisian stakeholders of the gradual transformation of the existing QA “system” in HE into an effective and efficient “system”, aligned with national needs and international good practices that meet to achievable expectations and leading to a strengthening of Tunisian HE.
Contribution to the development of a critical mass of QA practitioners in HE in Tunisia and the MENA region, capitalizing on the skills of European and Tunisian partners in QA and on Tunisian skills in e -learning and building the capacity of Tunisian QA practitioners in the design and management of QA in higher education institutions.
Contribution to the operationalization of internal committees for quality in universities and establishment on a pilot basis of internal QA systems, in the most advanced universities, certified by ANECA (like its AUDIT program of the ANECA implemented in Latin America); and this within the framework of a process carried out jointly with the Tunisian agency.
Development of a shared toolbox to meet the needs of internal QA and external QA in Tunisia and a code of good practices for the management of QA in Tunisian universities.