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Hungarian Accreditation Committee
– past, present and future
Prof. György BAZSA, President
Hungarian Accreditation Committee (HAC)
From Quality Assurance to Quality Culture
HEA
Regional Conference
Sarajevo, 6 October, 2011
Hungarian Accreditation Committee
– past, present and future
Prof. György BAZSA, President
Hungarian Accreditation Committee (HAC)
From Quality Assurance to Quality Culture
HEA
Regional Conference
Sarajevo, 6 October, 2011
Why accreditation?
First half of 20th century in US: protection of good
reputation, diplomas and interest of excellent HE
institutions against low level education and degrees.
Second half of 20th century: increasing importance
of quality, therefore developing systematic quality
assurance systems and quality culture.
In higher education: to ensure and improve quality
of education and training in interest of all
stakeholders (students, labor market, government).
For (the knowledge based) society: declaring safeguarded and evaluated quality of programs and/or
HE institutions, transparency, informing the public.
Hungarian Higher Education (HHE)
HE enrollment: before 1990
at present
HE students total:
Legal background:
HE institutions:
< 10% of age group
~ 38 % of age group
~ 380.000 (half state funded)
Act on HE 1993 and 2005
new law in 2012 (draft)
~7 HEI / 1 million people
State
Church/
Private
Total
University
19
7
26
College
10
32
42
Total
29
39
68
HEI
System of training programs
Before 2005: parallel system of programs
- college (practice oriented), 3-4 y.
- university (research oriented), 5-6 y.
Since 2005 (sequence of 3 cycles; Bologna system):
- Bachelor – 180/210 credits, 3-3,5 y.
- Master – 90/120 credits, 2 y
- long masters: 300 credits (med, law)
- PhD – 180 credits, 3+ years
Compulsory general changeover started in 2006. This
burdened HHE and HAC enormously in recent years.
Dr. univ. has a long tradition in Hungary. The present
PhD form exists since 1993 at universities.
Actors and factors in (Hungarian) HE Quality
a) Government: HE Q policy, legal and financial conds.
b) HAC:
external Q Evaluation and Accreditation
c) HEIs:
key performers in quality of the „product”,
responsible for internal Q Assurance
d) Faculty: determines Q of teaching and research
e) Students: accept and reflect to Q of teaching
f) Labor market: confirms/questions Q of HE
graduates
g) Media: reports Q and prepares HE ranking
h) Europe: Bologna, EHEA, ESG, ENQA: public Q
+ international Q labels + US NCFMEA
a) Government (Minister):
•
•
•
•
QA and accreditation is part of state HE policy
Hungary signed Bologna declaration
QUALITY AWARD for HEI QA activity
After strong expansion (fourfold increase in student
number in a decade) the main focus now: quality!
Impact
Hungarian HE community accepts the need and
benefit of QA and accreditation.
HEIs run QA systems and processes ordered by law.
State financing is not connected to QA and Accred.
Quality issue in general is now a common concern
of the society.
a) Government (Minister):
•
•
•
•
QA and accreditation is part of state HE policy.
Hungary signed Bologna declaration
QUALITY AWARD for HEI QA activity
After strong expansion (fourfold increase in student
number in a decade) the main issue is now: quality!
Impact
Hungarian HE community accepts the need and
benefit of QA and accreditation.
HEIs run QA systems and processes ordered by law.
State financing is not connected to QA and Accred.
Quality issue in general is now a common concern of
the society.
b) HAC1
• Independent, mainly academic board, funded by
Parliament (stakeholders spots).
• 19 members (formally appointed by PM), majority
delegated by Rector’s Conference and HAS; secretly
elected president, committees, for 3+3 years.
• Its resolutions are „expert opinions”, legal decisions
become effective through minister(ial organs).
• There is an independent HAC appeal board.
• HAC is a European QA player, charter member of
ENQA (European Association for QA in HE), its
membership affirmed twice by external reviews.
• HAC accepted and applies ESG in all respects.
b) HAC1
• Independent, mainly academic board, funded by
Parliament (stakeholders spots).
• 12 members (formally appointed by PM), 6 delegated by the minister, 3 HRC, 2 HAS, 1 NCD; president selected by the minister, committees, for 6+6
years.
• „Expert opinions” requested by the minister,
decisions will be effective through ministerial organ.
• There is an independent HAC appeal board.
• HAC is a European QA player, charter member of
ENQA (European Association for QA in HE), its
membership affirmed twice with external reviews.
• HAC accepted and applies ESG in all respects.
HAC2
• HAC is the only accreditation body in Hungarian HE,
all HEIs have to apply to HAC for external QA and
accreditation.
• HAC has a permanent secretariat (8 + 7 staff)
• a database of ~1200 experts (acutally trained)
• HAC introduced HE EXCELLENCE AWARDS
• HAC has functions in external and in internal QA.
• HAC sets public conditions and quality norms in
evaluation and accreditation.
• HAC activity and decisions are public:
http://www.mab.hu
HAC2
• HAC is the only accreditation body in Hungarian HE,
all HEIs have to apply for external QA and
accreditation in different affairs.
• HAC has a permanent secretariat (8 + 7)
• a database of ~ 1200 experts (actually trained)
• HAC introduced HE EXCELLENCE AWARDS
• HAC has functions in external and in internal QA.
• HAC sets public conditions and quality norms in
evaluation and accreditation.
• HAC activity and decisions are public:
http://www.mab.hu
HAC3
• HAC is strengthening its international relations and
actions in QA activity permanently with different
actions and co-operations. HAC has an active
International Advisory Board.
• HAC has to move from evaluation of inputs to
outputs. (Note! Filtering out a program at start is
less painful than exclusion during the process.)
• HAC wishes that institutions show their values and
results at accreditation instead of fearing a critical
evaluation. More self-esteem is needed, if it’s well
founded!
• HAC has its own Self-Assessment mechanisms.
• HAC needs to increase its publicity.
HAC3
• HAC is strengthening its international relations and
actions in QA activity permanently with different
actions and co-operations. HAC has an active
International Advisory Board.
• HAC has to move from input to output evaluation.
(Note! Filtering out a program at input is less
painful than exclusion during the process.)
• HAC wishes that institutions show their values and
results at accreditation instead of fearing a critical
evaluation. More self-esteem is needed, if it’s well
founded!
• HAC has its own Self-Assessment mechanism.
• HAC has to increase its publicity.
System of HAC activities (external QA)
at input (ex ante)
– HEI is charged
During process & at output
(ex post) – free of charge
establishing
HEIs/faculties
Accred. of operating HEI,
including QA system (/5 y)
establishing
B and M programs
---
launching
B and M programs
parallel programs’ evaluation
setting up
doctoral (PhD) schools
doctoral schools’ evaluation
professors’ appointment ---
System of HAC activities (external QA)
at input (ex ante)
– HEI is charged
During process & at output
(ex post) – free of charge
establishing
HEIs/faculties
Accred. of operating HEI,
including QA system (/5 y)
establishing
B and M programs
---
launching
B and M programs
parallel programs’ evaluation
setting up
doctoral (PhD) schools
doctoral schools’ evaluation
professors’ appointment ---
HAC past activities in figures
Average
approved
Task for HAC
cases/year
/total
establishment of HEI/faculty
2–4
--accred. of operating HEI
8 – 15
--establishment of Bachelor pr.
4–6
141/163
launching Bachelor programs 80 – 100 ~800/1100
establishment of Master pr.
50 – 60
~350/450
launching Master programs
300 – 400 ~550/750
parallel accred. of B/M progr.
30 – 80
--accreditation of PhD schools
2–3
10 + 170*
opinion for professors’ appt
120 – 140 yes: 90–100
Processes (standards are published in advance):
Ex ante accreditations (input conditions): in 90 days
written proposal submitted
2 HAC expert reviews (anonymous) →
disciplinary committees’ proposal (15 members) →
resolution of HAC plenum
Ex post accreditation (during operation): in 1 year
self-evaluation report (including C-SWOT) →
site visit by a visiting team (HAC experts, incl.
student, stakeholder, QA specialist) →
draft of the accr. report of the visiting team →
comments from the HEI →
resolution of HAC plenum
A unique system: parallel accreditation of all doctoral
schools (PhD programs) in Hungary.
a full, live, open access electronic database, covering all 26 universities +1 college: www.doktori.hu.
(Information for students!)
ex ante and ex post evaluation of ~200 doctoral
schools, the 3rd cycle of Bologna system, including
- documents of functions, teaching and research
plans, coherency, programs of QA,
- websites,
- ~ 2200 core members evaluated individually by
qualification, performance and relevance to the
respective school.
This mirrors the quality of scientific output of HEI.
Impact of HAC on HEIs
HEIs consider the quality norms and consequences
of external evaluation in all issues : applications are
often prepared carefully; exceptions ~25%.
HAC conditions and norms are the same for all –
state and non-state (but state recognized) – HEIs.
HAC has high quality norms in order to
compensate the expansive ambitions of HEIs (state
financing follows student number, not quality).
HAC evaluations result in requests and advice for
QA systems and management of HEIs.
HAC as a strong quality safeguard reduces the
responsibility of HEIs: HAC whishes to change it!
c) HEI quality management1 – 2 documents
HE Act: „The HEI operates an internal QA system.
The HEI prepares a quality development program.
• It specifies the process of operation, like the execution of management, planning, control,
measurement, assessment, and consumer protection
related tasks
• regulates the rules pertaining to the evaluation of
lecturer performance by the students.
• The HEI annually revises the implementation of the
program and
• publishes its findings on the website.”
QA systems are developed, programs start formally.
c) HEI quality management1 – 2 documents
HE Act: „The HEI operates an internal QA system.
The HEI prepares a quality development program.
• It specifies the process of operation, like the execution of management, planning, control,
measurement,
assessment, and consumer protection related tasks,
• regulates the rules pertaining to the evaluation of
lecturer performance by the students.
• The HEI annually revises the implementation of the
program and
• publishes its findings on the website.”
QA systems are developed, programs start formally.
HEA’s question:
• Secretariat manages (organizes) the process of
accreditation (logistics, printed and e-reports, visits).
• HAC secretariat has 15 permanent members (8
professional and 7 administrative).
• Independent expert members of the visiting panels
are selected by HAC plenum from a large database.
• Reports are written by the visiting panel.
• HAC delivers draft of the reports to the HEI on
comments before accepting the final version.
• Compulsory accreditation is financed by the state in
the HAC’s budget
• Evaluation of HEI’s proposal is financed by the HEI
(fee is set by the government).
• HAC has web-published criteria as a base for
accreditation of all courses and programs.
• Average period for one institutional and parallel
program accreditation is about one year.
• HAC conducts accreditation of the third cycle;
e-databese: www.doktori.hu
QA vs. QP:
QA isn’t an art for art sake:
the main aim of QA is good Quality Product:
- high class graduates,
- excellent science and innovation,
- efficient local/social services.
Thank you for the invitation and
for your kind attention!