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Language Network for Quality Assurance (LanQua)

The Subject Centre is coordinating a three-year project under the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Erasmus Network programme. The LanQua project is developing a Language Network for Quality Assurance and involves 60 partners across Europe.

Timescale

October, 2007 - September, 2010

Key contact(s):

Paula Davis
Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
pd2@soton.ac.uk

Funded by:

Lifelong learning programme logoCommission of the European Communities Lifelong Learning Erasmus Network programme
http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/llp/erasmus/index_en.html

Website:

Language Network for Quality Assurance (LanQua)
www.lanqua.eu

Project partners:

60 partners from 29 countries across Europe

Project aims:

To build on emerging European networks concerned with languages, bringing a wide range of providers and stakeholders together to produce a European quality benchmark for the area of languages, enabling institutions to assure and enhance the quality of provision in higher education

Outcomes:

LanQua is producing a Toolkit: a European Quality Benchmark, a series of relevant case studies and a set of recommendations for assurance and enhancement of quality in languages and related studies

Links:

European Commission Erasmus Programme
http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/llp/erasmus/index_en.html

Quality Assurance Agency
www.qaa.ac.uk

Further resources available on our website:

Thematic Network Projects in the Area of Languages

This is the document repository for the Socrates Erasmus Thematic Network Project reports. LLAS was a partner organisation in the Thematic Network Projects coordinated by the Freie Universität Berlin .