Develop a student recruitment plan
Partner universities have to conceive a joint student recruitment action plan for the joint master’s programme, determining: • Define your recruiting area • Organize multi-segmental recruitment campaigns Guidelines Define your recruiting area Depending on the objectives and design of the joint master’s programme, partner institutions can recruit students at national, European and global levels. In […]
Develop a business plan
The partnership has to develop a business plan for the joint master’s programme which is dependent from a set of parameters and national and institutional policies and strategies: • Ensure public funding; • Determine student fees; • Seek recognition and funding by external stakeholders; • Provide scholarships. • Ensure a fair allocation of income streams […]
Agree on a joint quality assurance and accreditation scheme
The quality assurance for a joint master’s programme is a common responsibility of the partnership. In this respect decisions have to be taken about: • Align with the institutional quality assurance frameworks; • Connect with Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area; • Connect with the quality assurance scheme of […]
Determine examination regulations
The programme team develops joint examination regulations by which following aspects have to be considered: • agree on the organizational framework for the examinations; • agree on a joint grading system • agree on awarding the joint diploma and on possible modular awards or microcredentials • define the descriptors of the joint diploma supplement. Guidelines […]
Determine a joint admission framework
The programme team must establish a joint admission framework, which includes thefollowing tasks: • Determine admission requirements; • Determine a joint application, admission and registration procedure for students; • Provide credential evaluation; • Enroll students. Guidelines Determine admission requirements The programme team can determine various entry requirements: • A bachelor or master’s degree in a […]
Install a language policy
Guidelines Most collaborative programmes use one language as the teaching language, usually English. In joint master’s programmes, students deal with different languages and associated cultural backgrounds. Improving intercultural and communication skills can therefore be an explicit objective of a joint master’s. In some joint programmes, each university therefore teaches in its own language, which is […]
Create an educational and technological ecosystem
The partnership has to take decisions on sharing a joint educational and technologicalecosystem for the joint master’s programme: • Choose a digital learning environment; • Share, evaluate and align tools; • Share access to digital libraries and other facilities • Share access to research and innovation Choose a digital learning environment Determine on which learning […]
Agree on qualifications
The partnership has to agree on a qualification for the joint master’s. Successivedecisions have to be made: • Justify the master’s degree to be recognized; • Agree on the denomination of the diploma; • Award a professional qualification; • Define possible types of modular qualifications; • Design a diploma supplement. Guidelines Justify the award to […]
Design the joint curriculum
For the design of the curriculum of a joint short learning programme, successive jointdecisions have to be made as the programme is co-owned and co-delivered by allpartners in a distributed environment: • Define the learning objectives of the curriculum; • Design a coherent curriculum in content and structure; • Define course delivery modes; • Design […]
Compose the programme team: structure and tasks
The partners have to agree on the composition of the joint programme team: • Leadership and role of each partner in the team; • Tasks assigned to the team and individual partners. Guidelines Leadership and roles • The success of a joint master’s is largely dependent on the work of the programme management and the […]
