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:
Commission 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 .
