Kick-Off Event "External Gaze" - How Can the Professional Field and Alumni Strengthen Educational Quality?

Kies Kwaliteit_enkel logo - The "External Gaze" took place on 22/10 as an online seminar in which the indispensable role of external parties in quality education was examined. Through the years, thousands of students have passed through the halls of Ghent University. To make sure that the study programmes that lead to their diplomas continue to be up to international quality standards, Ghent University has been developing its own system of internal quality assurance in phases: the aptly-named Quality Assurance Conduct 2. Study programmes stand to gain a lot by regularly assessing whether their programme still adequately prepares students for the demands of the professional field by inviting prominent figures from that field, alumni and other external parties, e.g. international peers, to examine their work and curriculum. This exchange of knowledge and perspectives - the external gaze - is a crucial part of Quality Assurance Conduct 2. The kick-off event on the 22^nd of October tried to answer the question of how study programmes can put this external gaze into practice. Everybody's Business.