High school quality management: examples of how to Syntegration

Symposium at the Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck

Vienna/Innsbruck (OTS) – on The topic of quality management in higher education will take place on 15. March at the Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck, a conference held jointly education conference, and the office of the Ombudsman for students in the Ministry of science organized by the Tyrolean. At the latest with the anchoring of quality management as one of the „Bologna principles“, is this issue on the everyday Agenda of European higher education institutions, so also in Austria. The knowledge interests of the participants lie in the conclusions for the respective areas of application through examples of good practice as well as in syntegrativen processes in ensuring quality standards in the various sectors of higher education.

LFU-rector Tilmann Märk, the current Chairman of the Tyrolean University conference complied with the request for Cooperation on the part of the Ombudsman for students in Vienna, „since this meeting, the Tyrolean universities are a significant showcase for many of the ideas in their own institutions can be given“. Elmar Pichl, for universities, universities of applied Sciences and private universities the responsible section chief in the Ministry of science, emphasizes the anchoring of quality assurance in the relevant higher education laws. „The universities are required to by law to put in place appropriate quality assurance measures, which has found both in the case of performance agreements for universities as well as in development and funding plans for universities the corresponding policy into account and finds“, Pichl. For Josef Leidenfrost, the higher education institutions in the Tyrol, the Medical University of Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Management Center Innsbruck, University of applied Sciences Kufstein Tirol, the UMIT private University in Hall in Tirol, as well as the KPH Edith Stein and the Pedagogical University of Tirol, about current examples of good practice in the area of quality assurance, which will also be the subject of the meeting. „These range from students care about course evaluations until the recruitment of the next generation HR“. Achim Hopbach, head of the AQAustria, the Agency has to create at least every three years a report on the development of the quality assurance of higher education institutions, on the basis of his observations, „that the quality management systems have a stand at Austrian universities, a very high level of development, and remarkably versatile.“

The intended Syntegration from the session contributions, so the specific knowledge of networking, so the main intention of the event, to the implementation and imitation of exemplary models and across the different sectors of higher education to concrete follow-up measures. The most important target groups for family members and employees of the rectorate offices and business guides, and quality management offices, legal departments, studies and audit departments, students secretariats, as well as offices for international relations, and for any special tasks (diversity, equality, disability).

The detailed conference programme [here]
(https://www.ots.at/redirect/hochschulombudsnetz1).

Registration is still possible up to 13. March 2019 under
https://www.ots.at/redirect/eventbrite4

Quality management in Austrian higher education: (teaching)
Examples of the Syntegration

A joint event of the Tyrolean higher education conference and of the
Federal Ministry for education, science and research, as well as the
Ombudsman for students

Date: 15.3.2019, 09:30 – 16:00 At
Location: Palais Claudiana
Herzog-Friedrich-Straße 3, 6020 Innsbruck

office of the Ombudsman for students in the BMBWF
Dr. Josef Leidenfrost, MA
Head of the Ombudsman’s office for students
+43 1 53120 – 5533
josef.leidenfrost@bmbwf.gv.at
www.University Ombudsman.at