QUAACAS

We are writing to let you know about developments from the Quaacas-group (Quality Assurance, Accreditation and Assessment) of ELFA (European Law Faculties Association).

 

As you know we had a successful conference in Utrecht (http://elixir.bham.ac.uk//menu/quaacas_frameset.htm), where we discussed the development of a Qualifications Framework and Accreditation in European legal studies. At the meeting professor Julia Gonzalez (Bilbao) presented the Tuning Project which has run since 2001 (http://www.unideusto.org/tuning/). The Quaacas-committee agreed to cooperate with this project in order to develop such a framework for law.  This is necessary as part of the Sorbonne Bologna process to enable comparability of studies and exchange of students in a transparent fashion and to meet the needs of an international labour market and provide the basis for a European accreditation system

 

The process that we need to follow will involve cooperation from Law faculties in all EEA and Accession States in order to elaborate a set of generic and specific (legal) competences. The process will involve the completion of on-line questionnaires by academics from selected institutions, graduates and those in legal professions and others involved. Ultimately an expert-group will assess the results and devise (in consultation) a European-wide qualification framework.

 

Quaacas intends to try and establish a Socrates Thematic Network on this theme including the issue of possible models of “optional” accreditation to be presented to the EC Commission in November 2005.

 

We invite you to email a member of the quaacas team if you are interested in helping in this work which will be discussed at the forthcoming ELFA Annual conference in Graz (http://www.elfa-afde.org/).

Dear all,

 

Yours Sincerely,

Julian Lonbay

Chair, Quaacas Committee

NEWSLetter (January 2005)

Questions or comments?

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17  January  2005

 

 

Members of the QUAACAS Committee    

  

* Julian Lonbay, University of Birmingham, chair of the Training Committee of the CCBE, chairperson,  j.l.lonbay@bham.ac.uk

 

*  Tom Latrup-Pedersen, dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Aarhus, TLP@jura.au.dk                

 

* Anne Pélissier-Klébèes, professor, University of Strasbourg, Anne.Pelissier-Klebes@urs.u-strasbg.fr

 

 

* Michiel van de Kasteelen, Head of the international office, Utrecht University, M.vandekasteelen@law.uu.nl

 

* Jacek Petzel, Vice-dean, Faculty of Law, University of Warsaw, jacek.petzel@comp-lex.pl