Internal quality management in competence-based higher education – An interdisciplinary pilot study conducted in a postgraduate programme in renewable energy

Motivated by the ‘shift from teaching to learning’ in the European Higher Education Area, international researchers, quality assurance agencies and practitioners undertook a joint project in order to develop a new procedure for internal quality management focussing on students’ competences (programme learning outcomes). The procedure consists of three steps: defining competences, screening competences and enhancing competences. An...