How to Manage Quality in TVET Uwe Wieckenberg Institut für Bildungstransfer, Germany Fourth ECA Education Conference October 24-26, 2007, Tirana

Agenda 1.What is Quality? 2.What are the Functions of a Qualitymanagementsystem? 3.What Qualitymanagementsystems are relevant? 4.What do these Qualitymanagementsystems have in common? 5.What kind of Experience do we have on the Institutional Level 6.Problems in the Context of Quality and Education 7.Bottom-line Approach of Quality Assurance 8.Conclusion

1. What is Quality? There is no uniform definition of „Quality“! The definition depends on the particular context! A general definition from DIN EN ISO: Quality = fulfilment of requirements

What Levels of Quality do we have to Distinguish in the Field of TVET? –Level of Interactions: quality in teaching/training and learning –Level of Institution: quality of the institution –Level of the System: quality of the TVET system

What Scopes of Quality can be distinguished? Input: - resources - (legal) guidelines Process: - core processes of TVET Output/Outcome: - results

2. What are the Functions of a Quality Management System (QMS)? A QMS describes, how an Institution defines Quality tries to achieve Quality (Processes) tries to maintain Quality (Quality Assurance)

1. Plan Define goals and requirements 2. Do Plan and observe performance 3. Check Record, review and check 4. Act Measure, analyse and remove weak points PDCA- Zyklus (plan – do – check – act) Methodological Procedure

Procedure of the „Common Quality Assurance Framework“ (CQAF) for VET in Europe

DIN EN ISO 9001 The Excellence-Model of the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Qualität by Evaluation and Development (Q2E) Learner-Oriented Quality Development for Further Education (LQW) 3. What Quality Management Systems are relevant?

DIN EN ISO 9000

EFQM

Qualität durch Evaluation und Entwicklung (Q2E)

EduQua Six EduQua Quality Criteria:

Learner-Oriented Quality Development for Further Education

4. What do these QMS have in common? The general methodology (P-D-C-A) Specific goals are defined (continuous im- provement, excellence, good education, …) They have a definition of „quality“ They have different areas of quality They emphasise the relevance of (business) process management

5. What kind of Experience do we have on the Institutional Level? Quality Assurance and Management is still „new“ in the TVET sector Importance of „Process Management“ in Advanced Training Programmes of InWEnt

Architecture of Processes targets, strategy administration tasks of education processes of leadership support processes Core processes resultsresults

6. Problems in the Context of Quality and Education Cause and effect Who is the client? The specific contribution of the client

7. Bottom-line Approach of Quality Assurance How do we define „Quality“? What is our concern? What are our core processes and how do we design them? How can we check the results? How can we continuously improve our results? Mission statement Process Management Evaluation Kontinuierliche Verbesserung

8. Conclusion a)QMS are converging b)Reflexion is most important c)Reflexion is more important than the specific QMS d)We should keep the methodology as simple as possible

e)We should take care on the goals at system level, e.g.: Sustainability: - economical dimension - ecological dimension - social dimension - dimension of continuous learning