Register Committee
The Register Committee decides on applications for inclusion on the register. It comprises 11 members with experience in quality assurance and higher education who act as independent experts and in their individual capacity.
Each Founding Member (ENQA, ESU, EUA, EURASHE) nominates two members of the Register Committee and one member is nominated by each Social Partner (BUSINESSEUROPE, Education International).
The third Chair of the Register Committee, Mr Eric Froment, was by-elected by the Register Committee, following the accouncement of the second Chair, Mr Kjell Frřnsdal, that he would not stand for re-election. The first Chair of the Register Committee was Mr Justice Bryan McMahon.
The Vice-Chair of the Register Committee, Mr Lucien Bollaert, has been elected by the Committee from amongst its members.
The following members compose the second Register Committee, with a mandate from 1 July 2012 until 30 June 2014:
Representatives of five Bologna signatory states, elected by the Bologna Follow-Up Group, attend the meetings of the Register Committee as Observers. These are:
- Austria
- Belgium (Flemish Speaking Community)
- France
- Germany
- Turkey
Eric Froment (Chair)
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Eric Froment has been the Chair of the EQAR Register Committee since August 2012. He is former professor of economics at the University of Lyon, France, and already was a member of the Register Committee from 2008 to 2009.
Founding President of the European University Association (EUA) from 2001 until 2005, he was previously Chief executive of the French National Conference of Presidents (CPE, 1998–2001) and Treasurer of the Conférence des Recteurs Européens (CRE, 1994–1998). At the Université de Lyon 2, he was elected Dean of the Faculty of Economics (1973–1977), Vice-president of the university (1978–1981), and finally President (1991–1996).
Eric Froment was both a Member of the European Commission Forum on University-based Research (2004-2005) and Member of the European Commission expert group on “Strengthening research institutions with a focus on university-based research” (2007).
From 2007-2011 he was advisor for international relations for the French national quality assurance agency AERES and from 2005-2007 Advisor for European and international relations at the French Ministry for HE.
Eric Froment received a Master’s degree in Economics and Political Science from the Université de Lyon, and a Doctorate in Economics from the Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (1971).
Lucien Bollaert (Vice-Chair)
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Lucien Bollaert is since 1 October 2009 member of the Executive Board of NVAO. NVAO (in Dutch: Nederlands-Vlaamse Accreditatieorganisatie) is the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders. The organisation was established by international treaty and it ensures the quality of higher education in the Netherlands and Flanders. He is also a member of the organising committee of EQAF, the European Quality Assurance Forum, which gathers all stakeholders on a yearly base.
Until recently, Lucien Bollaert was Education and Research Officer of University College West Flanders (Kortrijk, Belgium). There he coordinated the reform of study programmes, quality assurance, the institution's international policy and coached research programmes to decision. He also served as a member of the board of governors and the board of executives. He was the chair of the expert commission on quality assurance and a member of several other committees of Ghent University Association.
At Flemish level, Lucien Bollaert is involved in several working groups of the Flemish Council of University Colleges (VLHORA) on quality assurance and other topics. He contributes as an expert in drafting groups for legislation of the Flemish higher education system. He has been a Bologna Expert (formerly Bologna Promoter) for quality assurance, learning outcomes and qualifications frameworks since 2004.
At European level, Lucien Bollaert was the coordinator of EURASHE’s quality assurance and accreditation working group. Furthermore, he represented EURASHE in the E4 Group from 2003 until 2007 and has been a member of the Steering Committee of the European Quality Assurance Forum since its creation in 2005. He is also a reviewer for the Higher Education Quarterly journal.
Lucien holds degrees in Germanic philology (Ghent University) and in creative sociology (Berkeley University).
Christoph Anz
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Christoph Anz holds a PhD in History, Political Sciences and Scandinavian Studies from the Max-Planck-Institute for History and the University of Göttingen. Christoph joined the Max-Planck-Institute for History and did research specially on social groups in the Medieval Ages, on the history of Northern Europe and on different aspects of the history of sciences.
In 1997 he moved to Stockholm/Sweden to join the new founded University College Södertörns högskola. There Christoph Anz first continued in his research and teaching activities and besides that managed several activities and programmes especially regarding international student and academic exchange. Because of these and other activities he became more and more involved in the field of education policy.
That led him back to Germany where he took up a position as senior advisor at the Confederation of the German Employers´ Associations. For a number of years he was Deputy Director of the department for Education and Vocational Training. Christoph Anz's main activities were in the field of higher education policy both nationally and in the European context and he was engaged in the so called Copenhagen- and the Bologna process. In 2007 he moved to Munich to take up a position within Corporate HR at BMW Group; he is responsible for Education Policy of the company.
Andrea Blättler
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Andrea Blättler is studying political science and philosophy at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland and has a position as undergraduate assistant at the political science department of the University.
She was representative of Union of Students in Switzerland at four ESU Board Meetings and has been an active student representative at local and national level.
Since 2009 she has been a member of the Executive Committee of the European Students Union (ESU) as well as representative of ESU within the Bologna Follow-up Group.
She also represented ESU within the working group on the European Higher Education Area in a Global Context.
Andrea was a member of the EQAR Executive Board for two years (2010-2012) of which she served as President of the EB during the last year.
Henrik Toft Jensen
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Henrik Toft Jensen is Lecturer at the Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change at Roskilde University (Denmark). He was Rector of Roskilde University from 1989 to 2006 and Chair of the Danish Rectors’ Conference from 2000 to 2002.
Henrik Toft Jensen started his career at the Department of Geography of the University of Copenhagen where he worked from 1968 to 1973. Until 1975 he was an adjunct professor at Falkonergĺrdens Gymnasium (Denmark). He then joined the Department of Geography, Social Science and Computer Science of Roskilde University, where he served as Head of Department from 1982 to 1987.
Henrik Toft Jensen is involved in a variety of higher education projects and expert committees within and outside Europe. Amongst others, he has been member of the Committee for Research and Technological Development of the EU’s 7th Framework Programme since 2007, the Chair of the steering committee of the E4 Group’s European Quality Assurance Forum since 2006 and a member of the Irish Universities Quality Board (IUQB) since 2006. He is a member the External Review Panel of the Singaporean universities and was a member of an advisory panel to the Singaporean government from 2003 to 2006. He was the Chair of the Steering Committee of EUA’s Institutional Evaluation Programme (2001-2007) and also represented EUA in the E4 Group until 2007. Henrik is and was also involved in several Danish bodies, both in the fields of higher education and geography.
Henrik Toft Jensen studied political science and geography at Copenhagen University and holds several honorary degrees. Amongst others, he is Doctor Honoris Causa of the Linguistic University of Nizhniy Novgorod (Russia).
Dáire Keogh
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Dáire Keogh is President of St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin City University. A Council member of Ireland’s National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA), he is a former Vice President of the Irish Federation of University Teachers.
Dáire Keogh holds several honorary positions in the Irish higher education sector, amongst others as Monitor and Examiner of the National Distance Learning Centre (Dublin), as Academic Director of the Irish Studies Summer School at Trinity College (Dublin), in the Catholic Record Society and as International Treasurer of the American Conference for Irish Studies. Since 2006 he has also been a member of the Governing Authority of the Milltown Institute at the National University of Ireland. Dáire Keogh is also an external examiner at several Irish colleges.
In 2004 Dáire Keogh was awarded the St Patrick’s College’s President’s Award for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching and Learning. From 2007 to 2008 he was Senior Research Fellow of the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Dorte Kristoffersen
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Dorte Kristoffersen has a strong background in evaluation and quality assurance of higher education having worked in this field since 1992.
Dorte Kristoffersen is currently a Commissioner with the newly established Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) in Australia. Prior to this appointment she held the position as Vice President for Policy and Research of the Accreditation Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) under the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).
She was the Deputy Executive Director of the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications from October 2007 until December 2009. Prior to joining the HKCAAVQ, Dorte Kristoffersen was an Audit Director with the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA). Dorte joined AUQA in October 2004. She was Deputy Director and Director of Development of the Danish Evaluation Institute, an institute responsible for quality assurance of all levels of education, from 1999 to 2004.
Dorte Kristoffersen has been a member of the Board of the Asia Pacific Quality Network (APQN) since 2005 and was elected Secretary/Treasurer in February 2007. She is also the chair of an APQN project group on mutual recognition.
She was on the INQAAHE Board of Directors from 2003 to 2007 and she has been a member of numerous European evaluation agency boards and of international evaluation and review panels. She chaired the review panel for the Chilean Quality Assurance Agency (CNAP) and is chair of the ENQA coordinated review of National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation of Spain (ANECA) in 2007.
Dorte Kristoffersen is trained as an assessor in the Business Excellence Model (EFQM) and has experience as a lead assessor in the assessment of Danish public sector institutions.
Mindaugas Misiunas
Mindaugas Misiūnas holds master degrees in Mechanical engineering (Kaunas University of Technology) and in Educational science (Kaunas Vytautas Magnus University). He also received a PhD in Social sciences (Educational science) from Vytautas Magnus University by defending his doctoral dissertation “Modelling of the Quality Management System at an Institution of Non-university Higher Education”.
In 1975 he started his career as lecturer at the Kaunas Higher School of Technology. During the period between 1975 and 2000 he held positions as lecturer, Deputy Director and Director of the Kaunas Higher School of Technology. Since 2000 he has been director of Kauno kolegija (University of Applied Sciences), a state-owned institution providing higher education in the areas of technologies, social sciences, biomedicine, humanities and arts.
Mindaugas Misiūnas has experience as an expert in the external evaluation of higher education institutions and study programs. At Lithuanian level he was involved in several work groups on quality assurance and other topics. He contributed as an expert in a work group for creating provisions of quality assurance in higher education and for creating methodological recommendations for the creation and implementation of a unified internal quality assurance system. He was a member of a work group that prepared a study paper on Internal Quality Assurance Systems at Lithuanian Vocational Training Institutions - the Experience of EU Member States. Mindaugas Misiūnas is also an expert at the Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education in external quality assessment of higher education institutions.
At European level he is an expert of ENQA VET - the European Network for Quality Assurance in Vocational Education and Training. Mindaugas Misiūnas participated in numerous European seminars and conferences on quality assurance. He is the author and a lector of seminars on quality management in Lithuania. Mindaugas Misiūnas is a member of the editorial board of the journal The Quality of Higher Education. He is a member of EURASHE (European Association of Institutions in Higher Education) and of different work groups at the Ministry of Education and Science of Lithuania.
Júlio Pedrosa de Jesus
Professor Júlio Pedrosa de Jesus was born in Cadima (Portugal) and got his first lincenciatura in Physics and Chemistry from the University of Coimbra in 1967. He obtained his PhD in Chemistry at University College in Cardiff, UK.
Vice-rector of the University of Aveiro in the period 1987-1992 he was elected Rector in 1994. He interrupted this activity in 2001 to be Minister of Education of Portugal until 2002, being elected by Parliament as President of the National Council of Education, in 2005 for a mandate finished in June 2009.
As Rector of the University of Aveiro and as President of the Portuguese Council of Rectors (CRUP), he was actively involved in, among others, the creation of the European University Association (EUA). As president of CRUP, Professor Pedrosa represented the Portuguese Universities in the joint meetings with EU Director Generals of Higher Education in the period where the Sorbonne and Bologna Declarations were signed, having had an active participation in the Bologna Forum “Academic Day”.
Under the EUA program he was involved with institutional evaluation in Ireland, Spain and Turkey as well as in the evaluation of the System of Higher Education in Turkey.
Having retired as Full Professor of the University of Aveiro in June 2009, he continues as Senior Researcher of the Centre for Research in Ceramics and composite Materials and Associate with the Research Centre in Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies of the same University.
Anca Prisacariu
Anca Prisăcariu is a master degree student in educational management at the National School of Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest. Prior to that she studied Political Science at the West University of Timișoara (Romania).
She has been Academic Affairs Officer of the Romanian National Union of Students (ANOSR) since 2010, in charge of quality assurance and of the coordination of the quality assurance students’ experts pool (among others). She was a member of that same pool since 2009 and has participated in several external institutional evaluations. In addition, she is a certified internal evaluator and trainer for student assessors in QA.
Anca also was a member of the decision making body of ARACIS, Romania’s national quality assurance agency, as well as a member of the Quality Assurance Department and of the Law Sciences permanent experts committee (two other structures of ARACIS).
She has participated in many international quality assurance related conferences, seminars, general assemblies and review panels of ESU, ENQA and EUA and is a member of ESU QA Students Experts Pool.
Mala Singh
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Mala Singh is Professor of International Higher Education Policy in the Centre for Higher Education Research and Information at the Open University in the UK. Previously, she was the Interim Chief Executive Officer of the Council on Higher Education (CHE) in South Africa (2006-2007). She was the founding Executive Director of the Higher Education Quality Committee (HEQC) of the CHE (2001-2006).
Mala Singh has been the Executive Director of the Centre for Science Development in the Human Sciences Research Council, and of the Division for Humanities and Social Sciences in the National Research Foundation in South Africa (1995-1999). She has a doctorate in Philosophy and was formerly a professor and head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Durban-Westville, South Africa. She has published in the fields of philosophy, higher education and quality assurance. Mala Singh has done post-doctoral research at the University of Cologne (Germany) and Yale University (USA) and has recently been awarded a Fulbright research fellowship.
She was founding president of the Union of Democratic University Staff Associations (1988 - 1990), coordinator of the National Commission on Higher Education Task Group on Governance (1995-1996) and a member of the writing teams for the Green and White papers on Science and Technology Policy in South Africa (1996). She is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa.
Mala Singh has served two terms as a board member of the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE). She was a member of the Task Force of the UNESCO Global Forum on International Quality Assurance, Accreditation and the Recognition of Qualifications; and is vice-chairperson of the Regional Scientific Committee for Africa, UNESCO Global Forum on Higher Education, Research and Knowledge. She serves on the editorial boards of Teaching in Higher Education, Higher Education Policy, the South African Journal of Higher Education and the Journal of Higher Education in Africa. She has been instructor on courses for international participants on quality assurance in higher education run by the World Bank, UNESCO and the Association of African Universities. She serves on the Advisory Committee of the AAU’s Project on Quality Assurance in African Higher Education and on the University Quality Assurance Board in Dubai.
