Education Quality Board: Composition
Source: https://www.ugent.be/en/ghentuniv/mission/educational-strategy/quality-assurance/education-quality-board-composition Parent: https://www.ugent.be/en/ghentuniv/mission/educational-strategy/quality-assurance
Ghent University’s Education Quality Board (EQB) consists of members with complementary expertise, as did the external assessment panels of old. The Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (in Dutch: NVAO) sets the following conditions for external assessment panels:
“Each panel features a combination of specific forms of expertise, which are required to conduct an authoritative assessment: specialist expertise, international expertise, practical expertise, educational expertise, quality assessment or audit expertise and student-related expertise.”
To achieve this, the EQB counts among its members a delegation of 4 external experts, of which at least 2 are still professionally active. As far as the in-house experts are concerned, there is a balanced constellation of experts who can contribute ideas and take quality assurance decisions independently of their statute. The members do not act as representatives of their section or faculty, but become part of the university’s monitoring and guiding body. A diversity of statutes offers added value in terms of complementary expertise.
Composition of the EQB:
Chair: Vice-Chancellor or Deputy Vice-Chancellor \ Voting members in addition to the chair:
- Director of Education Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij
- 2 professorial staff members
- Bertel De Groote (Faculty of Economics and Business Administration)
- Annelies Decloedt (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine)
- Deputies: Sofie Van Bauwel (Faculty of Political and Social Sciences) and Bart Dhoedt (Faculty of Engineering and Architecture)
- 2 students
- Tibo Roelants (Faculty of Bioscience Engineering) \
- Jitse Van Nueten
- Deputies: Kylian Schalembier and Zoé Cruyt
- 2 assistant academic staff members \
- Sofie Vercoutere (Faculty of Arts and Philosophy) \
- Deputy: Tijs Rotsaert (Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences)
- 2 technical and administrative staff members \
- Wim Hoste (Faculty of Bioscience Engineering)
- Deputy: Tine Lievrouw (Faculty of Sciences)
- 4 external experts from the field \
- Lucien Bollaert
- Cis Van Den Bogaert
- Mieke Dhoore
- Marc D’havé
The Education Division - Education and Study Programme Support Team provides secretariat services for the Education Quality Board.
The composition of the EQB is reviewed every 4 years. Regularly appointed members may serve for a maximum of 2 4-year terms.