2nd meeting with EU experts in the frame of TWINNING Project, 13-17 April, 2015

During 13-17 April 2015 another meeting with the experts of EU Twinning Project was held in Yerevan. ARMENQA team members met with experts MsBirgittaVuorinen and Mr Volker Gehmlich. The following representatives of ARMENQA project attended the meeting Armen Budaghyan (YSU), Mary Santurjyan (YSU), Kristina Tsaturyan (ASPU), Tatevik Gharibyan (MoES) and Lusine Madoyan (ARMENIC). During the meeting experts together with ARMENQA Team and the representatives from the MoES and National Center for Quality assurance discussed learning outcomes, linking the learning outcomes to ANQF, academic autonomy of the HE institution and academic freedom in particular in light of the relationship between Quality Assurance and designing and referencing programmes of universities. The experts discussed also the ANQF levels 8 and 9, as well as its referencing to the EQF for HE level 8, the rationale and the local approaches to this issue. At the end of the meeting Ms. Birgitta Vuorinen presented information on the Finnish National Qualifications Framework since as the participants already knew the German QF. After the meeting the experts produced report highlighting the main foci for future missions.