1. Transparency Initiatives European Higher Education
Peer Learning Activity
16 February, 2011
Brussels
Frans van Vught

2. Transparency Tools
‘transparency of diversity’ in higher education systems
‘strategic profiling’ for higher education institutions

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. U-Map designed in interaction with stakeholders empirically tested
operationally available with web-based tools
currently being implemented in several European higher education systems

7. U-Map

8. U-Map status Delivery date The Netherlands Running March 2011 Flanders
Estonia
Started
Nov 2011
Portugal
Confirmed
Nordic countries
Under negotiation
Romania

9. 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

10. 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

11. Thank you for your attention!