Following its change of logo and branding, MusiQuE presents its completely rebranded website. The new MusiQuE website presents reorganised resources in a renovated structure. These resources include a video about MusiQuE, documentation such as guidelines for institutions and Peer Reviewers, and review reports from completed procedures registered in the Database of External Quality Assurance Results (DEQAR).
The website presents all services currently offered by MusiQuE, from quality enhancement reviews and accreditation to consultative visits, evaluation of research activities or coordination of benchmarking projects.
Additionally, new materials will be published progressively, including those resulting from MusiQuE’s professional development events such as thematic webinars and training workshops for Peer Reviewers. Recordings from past webinars are available permanently for consultation, should individuals be looking for specific content on quality assurance in higher music education.
Thus, on Wednesday 9 March 2022, MusiQuE presented its third and last item of its first series of webinars: “Balancing internal and external quality assurance – experiences from higher music education institutions”.
MusiQuE’s third webinar introduced concepts related to internal and external quality assurance from theoretical and practical perspectives and challenges encountered when adopting a balanced approach in quality assurance at higher music education institutions. 21 participants from 12 different countries joined the webinar.
The speakers’ panel was formed by:
- Dr. Oliver Vettori (Dean of Accreditation and Quality Management at Vienna University of Economics and Business),
- Janneke Ravenhorst (Head of the Quality Culture Office at Royal Conservatoire (KC) The Hague), and
- Brian Weir (Director of Student Experience at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff).
The webinar was moderated by Orla McDonagh (MusiQuE Board member and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at TU Dublin).
The recording of the webinar and presentation materials are available on the MusiQuE website, as well as a brief report of the speakers’ contributions and of the ensuing discussion.
This was the last of MusiQuE’s first series of webinars. More webinars will be planned in the future focusing on points of further discussion deriving from the first series of webinars.
