Handbook of Excellence – Master Programmes (September 2012)

Between 2008 and 2010 the Erasmus Mundus Quality Assessment (EMQA) project built and refined what has become known as the ‘Landscape of Excellence’ for Erasmus Mundus Joint Programmes (EMJP) in the area of taught Master programmes (EMMC).

The core objectives of the activities were to understand how EMMCs ‘performed’ excellence. The very diversity and complexity of an EMJP (multi-disciplinary, multi-national, multi-organisational etc.) meant that existing international quality assurance metrics were too generalised to be useful. So an extensive series of direct visits to Programmes was organised where intensive dialogue and debate with the Programme actors (academics, administrators, students etc.) helped to uncover the sophisticated landscape of excellence that existed across EMJPs.

That landscape provided a descriptive overview of the range of quality practices. However, what it did not do was to provide current and prospective EMJPs with a clear sequencing of activities that would help to build a successful Programme.

Further details:
Handbook of Excellence – Master Programmes (September 2012)