The 2016 higher education quality enhancement conference was held on 15 December. This was the second in our series on sharing smart approaches between institutions. National and international speakers presented their experiences, leadership and institutional perspectives on the theme ‘Using Data for Enhancement Purpose’ to over 200 delegates at Dublin Castle.
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Leadership reflections
Professor Tom Collins, President Emeritus, Maynooth University and Former President, RCSI Bahrain and Dundalk Institute of Technology
Institutional collaboration in Benchmarking and Peer Review: Assuring Quality of Provision
Dr Sara Booth, Strategic Advisor - Quality (External) at the University of Tasmania and Director of Research and Quality of Private Higher Education (COPHE) in Australia
National Student Engagement Programme NStep
Cat O'Driscoll, National Student Engagement Coordinator; Dr. Lynn Ramsey, Dylan McGowan and Billy Bennett, Letterkenny IT
(For further information see the NStep Information Leaflet)
UCD Pilot Research Assessment Project - Update
Associate Professor Graeme Warren, Liam Cleere and Dr Roy Ferguson, UCD
Accountability and Quality Improvement: If you think there's a simple solution, you don't understand the problemDr Alexander C. McCormick, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington and Director, National Survey of Student Engagement
Launch of the National Survey Report
Sean O'Reilly, Irish Survey of Student Engagement
The Irish Survey of Student Engagement (ISSE) as a Tool for Institutional Knowledge and Enhancement: A tri-institutional case study
Aisling McKenna, DCU; Professor Jim Walsh, NIRSA, Maynooth University; and Eoin Langan, Athlone IT
Industry and Higher Education - a case study in joint vision, collaboration and agility to deliver the insurance apprenticeship programme
Dr Michael Barrett, IT Sligo and Sandra Harvey-Graham, the Insurance Institute
Set the Stage for Successful Collaborative Provision
Dr Lisa Looney, DCU
The Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Irish Higher Education: What has been achieved 2013 - 2016
Professor Sarah Moore, Chair, National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (NFETL)
Teaching Excellence Framework and the evolving HE policy and regulatory landscape in the UK
Douglas Blackstock, CEO, The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA)
Collaboration for Enhancement
Dr Teresa Whitaker, Hibernia College and Anne Mangan, IPTAS
Perspectives from a University-wide Research Quality Review - the Highs and Lows!
Elizabeth Noonan, UCC and Deirdre O'Brien, UCC
Guru: Next generation academic analysis – update
David Molloy, DCU
Professional Body Survey - a project undertaken by PARN (Professional Association Research Network)
Professor Andy Friedman, PARN
Quality Assurance Guidelines
Monitoring and Dialogue
Programme Validation
English Language Education Seminar 2016
FE Enhancement Seminar 2016
HE Enhancement Seminar 2015