Transparency Initiatives European Higher Education Peer Learning Activity 16 February, 2011 Brussels Frans van Vught
Transparency Tools ‘transparency of diversity’ in higher education systems ‘strategic profiling’ for higher education institutions
Transparency Tools instruments for information provision on actual efforts or performances of higher education institutions for various stakeholders to base their decisions and judgements on relevant for Quality Assurance instruments relevant for Strategic Profiling of higher education institutions
Transparency Tools Classifications: instruments to group higher education institutions and to characterise similarities and differences based on the actual activities and conditions of higher education institutions Rankings: instruments to compare higher education institutions and to judge their relative performances based on the actual achievements and conditions of higher education institutions
European Transparency Initiatives U-Map: a multi-dimensional and user-driven European classification of higher education institutions U-Multirank: a multi-dimensional and user-driven European approach to ranking higher education institutions
U-Map designed in interaction with stakeholders empirically tested operationally available with web-based tools currently being implemented in several European higher education systems
U-Map
U-Map status Delivery date The Netherlands Running March 2011 Flanders Estonia Started Nov 2011 Portugal Confirmed Nordic countries Under negotiation Romania
U-Multirank designed in interaction with stakeholders currently being tested in global sample of higher education institutions further to be operationalised (dimensions, indicators, presentation to be offered as a multi-dimensional, multi-level and user-driven tool
U-Map and U-Multirank creating more transparency in two different transparency tools allowing ‘institutional profiling’ U-Map: institutional activity profiles U-Multirank: institutional performance profiles creating more transparency in European Higher Education
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