Master organization

   Scientific Contents 

   Evaluation

  

Deadline for European students: August 15th 2011

In 2010/11 this programme carries the Erasmus Mundus Brand Name according
to the decision taken by the European Commission by way of its representative EACEA
[for more information]

Quality assurance and evaluation

Quality assurance is a key issue from an academic point of view as well as for the transparency on the labour market. The Master will be a double one. Each university awarding the degree is responsible for assuring the quality of their courses, and the university organizing the intensive weeks is responsible for those ECTS. In addition, the Council of the EMMaster will also be charged with quality assurance, and it will include an external assessment.

These universities have similar requirements, and a long history of pedagogical and scientific collaboration. The ECTS number has been harmonized in the universities to correspond to the same number of hours of work for students. The workload of a full-time student is 60 ECTS during one academic year. For the whole year the number of working hours for a student is 1700-1800. One ECTS stands for 25-30 hours of classes and personal work. The same level of work is expected during the intensive weeks.

Examination procedures and processes are a key issue, because traditions differ among the universities. It has been agreed to:

- mark at least one written work and an oral contribution for each module

- organize a defense of the Masters thesis by the local supervisor and another teacher in the field, but each Master thesis is supervised by two teachers from two different universities (from the home university and from the University where the S3 has been done).

The Diploma supplement is provided by each university and attached as an annex to the degree award. The document gives marks for each module and for the thesis. The same will be provided for the Masters thesis with a short report (300 words). Class rankings will indicate the top 20% of students and the next 25% each year.

Evaluations will be organized in each university and at the Consortium level. Students will provide their evaluations of each module and each semester and the general organization of the Masters. Teachers will be asked to give their own evaluations also. Then a collective evaluation between students and teachers is organized with the local EM master responsible. The responsible write a report documented individual and collective evaluation and send it to the Co-odinator of the Master in Paris. At the Consortium level, the co-ordinator makes a synthesis of the reports and discuss them inside the Council. The external assessment will receive the reports and synthesis and will evaluate quality assurance, content, organization and results in terms of competences acquired and European value added.

Along with other students, third-country students will be invited to assess the Masters Course and the organization of the programme not only at the end of their stay but after each module and semester during the year.

 

 

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