The Steering Committee of ESU’s Quality Assurance (QA) Student Experts’ Pool hereby opens a call for 60 members. In addition to new recruits, the call is also open to current members of the Quality Assurance Pool, who wish to continue their activities as pool members. Successful applicants will be included in ESU’s quality assurance experts’ pool from 10th July 2020 until the 10th of July 2021.
Becoming a member of the pool will give eligibility to be nominated by ESU for quality assurance reviews and training, and provide an opportunity to gain more knowledge about quality assurance in Europe.
The ESU Quality Assurance Student Experts’ Pool was established to promote student engagement in quality assurance and to contribute to the improvement of higher education provision in the European Higher Education Area. It aims to develop ESU as a crucial partner for quality assurance agencies in Europe and to play a leading role in quality assurance policy developments.
For these purposes, members of the pool are trained and involved in the policy work of ESU. Pool members can also be nominated to participate in quality assurance procedures e.g. reviews, thus promoting student participation in quality assurance processes across Europe. Through the pool, ESU also undertakes capacity-building and development activities in quality assurance in higher education on the national level, in cooperation with the National Students’ Union members of ESU.
During the past years, ESU has organized several trainings at the European level. So far, ESU has nominated an increasing number of students to take part in various international external evaluations organized by different quality assurance agencies all over Europe. Most notably, ESU is cooperating with the Institutional Evaluation Programme of the European University Association (EUA) and is nominating students for external reviews of quality assurance agencies for the purposes of determining membership in the European Association of Quality Assurance (ENQA) and/or inclusion in the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR).
Membership in the pool enables members to share information, knowledge, and good practices relating to QA in higher education. You will enhance your skills and knowledge, supporting you in your work in quality assurance at home. Calls administered by ESU for participation in quality assurance reviews and other events are sent to pool members only.
In the selection process, we aim to ensure an adequate balance of participants by country and region in Europe, study field, level of study, and type of higher education, as well as a balance of participants of each gender, according to ESU’s Gender Mainstreaming Strategy. Current members of the pool are invited to apply as well, if they wish to continue their membership in the pool.
If you are interested in becoming a member of the QA Pool please fill in the following application form; and submit the following documents by the 3r d of July 2020 at 23:59 CEST.
By doing so, all applicants accept that, in the case of being selected and becoming pool members, their pictures and short biographies will be used by ESU for promotion purposes. Moreover, it will be understood that all applicants have read and agreed to this call and explicitly to the commitments stated under the “Benefits and responsibilities” section.
For any queries you can reach us at qapoolsc@esu-online.org. Responsible persons for this call are Aleksandar, Liv and Anna on behalf of the Steering Committee of the ESU QA Pool, and Gohar and Nina on behalf of the ESU Executive Committee.
Note: Online training for the successful applicants will be provided after the summer. Particularly new members of the pool would be strongly advised to attend the training.
