Quality of Education
Providing high quality education to its students is a true priority for the UNamur, this can be seen in many internal projects, but also in the external assessments conducted by the AEQES.
Internally, the teaching assessements by students lead to a continuous improvement of learning activities and teaching methods. Programms are also assessed on another level to guarantee their adequation and their fitting to the employment market.
The UNamur, like any other higher education institutions, is regularly assessed by the AEQES.
What is the AEQES?
AEQES is the acronym of "Agence pour l’Evaluation de la Qualité de l’Enseignement Supérieur", (agency for the assessement of Higher Education Quality). On the one hand, this agency takes care of the formative assessment of programs offered in Wallonia-Brussels Federation (of all sectors), on the other hand, of the institutional organisation of these programs.
The assessements are cyclic and organized according to a calendar defined by the Agency. They all follow the same steps : first, giving a self-assessment written file, followed by the on-site visit of experts, experts then give a report and finally, the assessed institution realizes the actions mentionned in the action plan.
Program assessements
Since 2012, the AEQES has been in charge of conducting formative assessments on the program quality as well as on the quality process linked to the organization of these programs within the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. The UNamur's different cursus are thus regurlarly evaluated by the agency on a 6 years basis. The assessment lies on 5 principles : governance and quality policies, program relevance, program internal constensy, efficiency and ethics and finallly, continuous improvement.
Institutional Assessment
In 2017, the agency started to launch a test phase to define modalities on how to assess institutions on their governance. The aim of this approach is to assess the level of maturity of higher education institutions through the quality processes in place, and ultimately to enable institutions to manage external program evaluations themselves in the near future.
