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Pays : Belgique  Langue(s) : anglais 

Tuning in the World: New Degree Profiles for New Societies


Date :  du 21-11-2012 au 21-11-2012

Lieu :  Bruxelles

Organisation :  European Commission (EC)
co-organised with the Tuning Academy, a joint initiative of the University of Deusto (Spain) and the University of Groningen (The Netherlands)

Programme : 
The Conference focused on key elements of Degree Profiling and analysed how new profiles are developed in Europe and other regions of the world to respond to specific social and economic demands using the Tuning approach. Tuning is a widely tested methodology for looking at educational structures internationally. It was first developed in the framework of the European Union's Erasmus programme a decade ago and consists of using the competence/learning outcomes based approach in designing degree programmes in rapidly growing and diversifying systems.

One of the major contributions of Tuning in different regions and countries has been the development of Degree Profiles with three main characteristics: social relevance, quality and transparency and its capacity for being recognised. Tuning began shortly after the Bologna Declaration eleven years ago in Europe, spread to the rest of the world (Latin America, Africa, Russia, Central Asia, Thailand, USA, Canada, Australia and soon China) and is now going to return to Europe. The Tuning approach stands out by not being invasive - it does not require universities to harmonise entire curricula but obliges them to find a common language, not only among each other but also with their surrounding community. It touches upon major issues in higher education such as employability, skills, generic and subject-specific competences, credit accumulation and transfer, approaches to learning, teaching and assessment, and the role of quality enhancement in the educational process. Tuning is also feeding the internationalisation of higher education and policy dialogue.

In addition to providing a wide range of stakeholders information on the different Tuning initiatives in course, the Conference also enabled academics from different regions of the world to note the similarities but also the differences in the degree profiles that they are currently developing, differences principally linked to their local or regional context. It was however clear from the debates that the method is understood and shared by all and that there is an increasing effort to deepen the relevance of study programmes so that graduates acquire the right set of skills for their future.

The Commissioner underlined when closing the Conference that whilst Tuning started as an attempt to solve a strictly European problem, it has become a methodology that can be adapted to different higher education structures in very different cultural contexts and that the commitment of the universities, the associations and the national authorities involved is the key to the continuing success of this initiative.


URL :  http://ec.europa.eu/.../tuning_en.htm

Ressources mises à disposition à l'issue de la manifestation : 

• diaporamas :  http://ec.europa.eu/.../tuning_en.htm

  Liste des diaporamas téléchargeables en pdf :

- Matete Madiba , Student Affairs, University of Pretoria (Harmonisation and Tuning Africa)

- Allan Cumming , Dean of Students at College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh (Tuning Europe)

- Samuel Velez Ricardo , Director of Master Plan, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (Tuning Latin America)

- Daniel McInerney , Professor & Associate Dept. Head, Utah State University (Tuning USA)

- Charles Awono Onana , Director of the National Advanced School of Engineering, Université de Yaoundé I (Tuning- Conceptual Frameworks)

- Mikhail Firsov , Head of the Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy, Moscow State Oblast (Region) University (Tuning Russia)

- Sérgio Kieling Franco , President of National Commission of Evaluation in Higher Education in Brazil (CONAES)

- Igor Kotlobovsky , Vice-Rector, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Secretary General, Association of the Classical Universities of Russia

- Irina Teleshova , Vice-Dean, Faculty of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

- Beatrice Njenga , Head of Education Division, Directorate of Human Resources Science and Technology, (African Union Commission)

- Francisco Alarcón , Secretary-General and Academic Director, The Central American University Council- CSUCA

- Olga Oleynikova , Director of Tempus Office in Russian Federation, President Elect of International Vocational Education and Training Association

- Luigi Donà dalle Rose , Rector’s consultant for the European Mobility Programmes, University of Padua, Italy (Member of Tuning Management Committee)

- Tim Birtwistle , European Consultant, Lumina Foundation, USA

- Susumu Yamauchi , President, Hitotsubashi University, Japan

- Julia González , University of Deusto

- The Tuning Journal for Higher Education



mot(s) clé(s) :  enseignement supérieur, normes et valeurs éducatives