1^st ERDI Expert Seminar
Quality Issues in Adult Education
Elsinore, 10-11 September 1999

Quality Issues in Adult Education:
Quality assurance - quality control - quality assessment - quality development

 Programme

Friday 10 September 1999

11.00                    Opening of seminar
Ekkehard Nuissl von Rein, President of the Consortium of European Research and Development Institutes for Adult Education - ERDI, and
Peter Bacher, Vice President of ERDI

 11.30                   Quality in residential folk high schools
                            Marie Østergaard Knudsen, Danish Lecturer at the Nordic Folk Academy, Göteborg, Sweden

12.15                    Lunch 

14.00                    Quality assurance: Instruments for evaluation and self-evaluation in adult education.
Ad Doom, Vlaams Ondersteuningscentrum voor de Basiseducatie - VOCB, Antwerpen, Belgium

                            OECD: New indicators. Introducing SIALS  (Second International Adult Literacy Survey)
Anders Holm, Institute of Local Government Studies, Denmark    

16.00                    Break

16.30                    DIE project on Quality
                            Felicitas von Küchler, Deutsches Institut für Erwachsenenbildung - DIE, Frankfurt, Germany 

                            Recent developments in quality issues in Finnish adult education:
Public interests and private initiatives.
Timo Toiviainen, European Association for the Education of Adults, Finland

19.00                    Dinner

Saturday,  11 September 1999

 09.30                  Assessing the quality of educational work with adults
                           in colleges of further education in England.
                           Peter Lavender, National Institute for Adult Continuing Education - NIACE, England 

Quality assurance in Nordrhein-Westfalia with the instruments of EFQM - European Foundation for Quality Management
Karl-Heinz Pohl, BIT Berufsforshnungs- und Beratungsinstitut für interdisziplinäre Technikgestaltung e.V., Bochum, Germany

12.00                    Lunch

13.00                    Plenary Discussion

1. Trends in the quality discussion in Europe

2. Accreditation of institutes

3. Consequences of quality assurance: How is it affecting the educational system? Curricula?
    Materials? The learning process? The study behaviour of the participants? The teachers
    performances? Ec.

 17.00                   Closure of seminar

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