What is TLQAA+?
The Erasmus+ TLQAA+ project, "Programme Evaluation for Transparancy and Recognition of Skills and Competences" is a three year project that aims at setting the ground for the evaluation of academic programmes in the Lebanese Higher Education and at further developing a national qualifications framework. The main idea is to combine quality and relavance of academic programmes to better serve the students, the higher education and the society in general. It also deals with issues like recognition and quality assurance of non traditional learning methods. The project consortium includes 23 partners from Europe and Lebanon but is open to associate institutions and individual experts in some of its activities. It started on October 15, 2016.
Three study visits are organised to Lebanese experts to train them on external evaluation of programmes of study. They are described in the following:
A seminar has been organised in the Ministry of Education and Higher Education regarding Qualifications Framework. This was supported by Lebanon Erasmus+ Office and the Lebanese HEREs. As a satellite event, a session on integrated tertairy education was exclusively organised by the Erasmus+ HEREs. The event took place on 25-26 June 2018. In the following a presentation given at this occasion which links integrated tertiary education and LQF.
The G3 workshop on Quality Assurance (in French) will be held at 24-26 October 2018 at the Unviersity of Montreal. For more information about the programme and the submission of papers please visit the workshop site.
After a year of work in the project, a national roundtable is organised in the Ministry (12th floor) on 14 November 2017 to present to the different stakeholders the major results achieved so far in the project and to collect their feedbacks on several choices related to:
One of the two study visits took place in the Université de Lorraine with participation from Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Centre International d'Etudes Pédagogiques on October 17-18, 2017. Sixteen participants from Lebanon including the Director General of Higher Education and faculty members and staff from eight Lebanese universities attended the study visit which focused on competence based programmes and internal quality assurance. Deep reflexion regarding the Lebanese programmes and systems in perspective have taken place.
QUARES (Association pour la Qualité en Recherche et Enseignement Supérieur) is organising the 15th summer school in Montpellier, France on 6-8 September 2017. For more information please refer to the preliminary programme
The launching ceremony of the project TLQAA+ has taken place on 12 January 2017 in Beirut Symposium (University of Balamand - ALBA). The ceremony was under the auspices of H.E. Minister Marwan Hamadeh and in the presence of H.E. ambassador Christina Lassen head of the Delegation of the European Union in Lebanon. Please check the following documents:
