1. Developing a Quality Assurance Framework
BEST project Kick off Meeting
Doncaster February 2012

2. What is Quality? means different things to different people
very few Member States use the same quality system and core criteria
difficult to identify the causal link between a quality approach and the quality achieved
difficult to measure the quality of non formal and informal learning

3. European Quality Assurance Reference Framework (EQUARF)
a quality assurance and improvement cycle (planning, implementation, evaluation, revision) for vocational training
Provides ways of monitoring performance
- common quality criteria
- indicative descriptors
- indicators.

4. CEDEFOP 2003
“The challenge must be to measure what is valuable, rather than to value what is easily measured.”

5. Benefits: Quality assurance
Quality Assurance Framework
Establishes credibility through assessing, testing and reviewing
Provides a framework for reviewing, evaluating and improving

6. Quality and Standardisation
Quality Management system
Set of Enterprise Competencies
Set of indicators to measure against

7. Quality Management system
Stage 1.Identify competence and assess against indicators
Stage 2. Test the competences/indicators
Stage 3. Conduct peer review against indicators
Stage 4. Revise competencies/indicators