Towards the Lebanese Quality Assurance Agency
The Tempus TLQAA experience
Place: Ministère de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche, 25 rue de la Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, 75005 Patis
Date: Thursday 14 November 2013
This conference is an opportunity to discuss the realizations and outcomes of the project and in particular to identify issues that deserve attention or further developments when setting up a quality assurance agency.
Agenda:
8h45 - 9h15: Registration
9h15 - 9h20: Presentation of the agenda and the organization of the day
Bruno Curvale, CIEP
9h20 - 10h00: Welcome notes
Bruno Curvale, CIEP (welcome note on behalf of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research)
Mazen El Khatib, Lebanese Ministry of Education and Higher Education
Fr. Walid Moussa, President NDU and Association of Universities in Lebanon
Nada Chbat, Lebanese University
10h00 - 11h00: Roundtable 1 -Needs of the Lebanese higher education in terms of Quality Assurance
Chairperson: Henri Awit, USJ
Position of the Lebanese Directorate General
Mazen El Khatib, Lebanese Ministry of Education and Higher Education
Needs of the private Lebanese universities
Nashaat Mansour, LAU
Needs of the Lebanese University
Zeinab Saad, LU
11H00 - 12H10: Roundtable 2 -Project Implementation I: Preparing the external evaluation
Chairperson: Andy Gibbs, ENU
The TLQAA model
Soubhi Abou Chahine, BAU
The standards
Adnan El Amine, LAES
Selection and training of the reviewers
Nada Moghaizel Nasr, USJ
The tools
Saadallah Halimi, MUT
12H10 - 14H00: Lunch
14h00 - 15h00: Roundtable 3 -Project Implementation II: Internal and external evaluations
Chairperson: Pascale Salameh, LU
Self-evaluation reporting
Maha Deek, USF
Site visit
Maha Khachab, UOB
External evaluation report
Diane Nauffal, LAU
Feedback from observers
Sabine Goulin, UdL
15H00 - 15H30: Coffee break
15h30 - 16h30: Points to consider when building a QAA
Chairperson: Sandrine Canter, ULB
The ten benchmarks to design a new evaluation agency
Robert Fouquet, AERES
Bruno Curvale, CIEP
16h30 - 17h30: The road ahead
Chairperson: Chafic Mokbel, UOB
Lessons from the five external evaluation
Mary Angella Willis, NDU
Testimony
Zalpha Ayoubi, LU
George Abdelnour, NDU
Josianne Abi Khattar, USF
Rabih Banat, MUBS
Pierre Gedeon, NDU
Elie Honein, UOB
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