MusiQuE – Music Quality Enhancement, the Foundation for Quality Enhancement and Accreditation in Higher Music Education has been very active in the last months. Please find an update on the latest activities and upcoming events below.
 

MusiQuE Peer-reviewers Training Session 2018

The MusiQuE Board and staff are looking forward to welcoming you at the MusiQuE Peer-reviewers Training Session 2018. The session will take place on Wednesday 7th (16:00h-21:00h) and Thursday 8th (09:00h-13:00h) November 2018 at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria, just before the start of the Annual Congress of the AEC.
The registrations for the Training Session are now open. Please find more information on the programme and registration process here.
 

MusiQuE review procedures

MusiQuE is currently coordinating and preparing several quality enhancement and accreditation procedures in Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Russia, Kazakhstan and The Netherlands. These procedures include:
  • An institutional quality enhancement review of the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid, Spain (site-visit in March 2018)
  • Reviews of several programmes at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp and the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, Belgium (site-visits in May 2018)
  • 4 visits of ‘critical friends’ and a quality enhancement review at the Malmö Academy of Music, Sweden (site-visit in September-October 2018)
  • A review of 7 programmes at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland (site-visit in October 2018)
  • A programme accreditation procedure at the College of Music, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand (site-visit in November 2018)
  • Programme accreditation procedures at ESMUC and Conservatorio Superior de Música del Liceu, Barcelona, Spain (site-visits in November 2018) in cooperation with AQU Catalunya
  • An institutional accreditation procedure at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow, Russia (site-visit in December 2018) in cooperation with the National Centre of Public Accreditation (NCPA)
  • Benchmarking exercises at the Orpheus Institute and the International Opera Academy, Ghent, Belgium (2019)
  • An institutional accreditation procedure at the Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory, Almaty, Kazakhstan (site-visit February 2019)
  • A programme accreditation procedure at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague, The Netherlands (site-visit in April 2019)
  • An institutional quality enhancement review at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Switzerland (site-visit in May 2019), in cooperation with EQ-Arts.
MusiQuE is currently also planning more than 10 reviews in 2019 and 2020 in various countries, including Belgium, Poland, Czech Republic, UK and Singapore.
 

Latest news

Please find an update on a selected number of MusiQuE’s latest and upcoming activities below:
  • MusiQuE’s review services will be presented to AEC members during the AEC Annual Meeting for International Relations Coordinators (Birmingham, UK, 13-16 September 2018) and the AEC Annual Congress 2018 (Graz, Austria, 8-11 November 2018). The presentations will be uploaded shortly afterwards on the MusiQuE website.
  • MusiQuE has recently completed several review and accreditation procedures, including a review of 12 programmes at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn, Estonia, and an accreditation procedure for 3 programmes at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, Portugal. The reports of these procedures are available for download here. 
  • The MusiQuE Board has held its Spring meeting in Brussels. A summary of the meeting can be found here.
 

Contact

Are you interested in one of the evaluation procedures provided by MusiQuE? Do you have a question about cooperating with us? Please do not hesitate to address your question to the MusiQuE office through the online Quality Assurance Desk, or contact us directly at info@musique-qe.eu.

For more information, please visit www.musique-qe.eu.