QQI 10th anniversary conference

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On Tuesday 18th and Wednesday 19th October 2022, QQI hosted its 10th anniversary conference in the Croke Park Conference Centre.

Strengthening strategic partnership to effect system change linked a decade of QQI’s work with stakeholders to future ambitions to continue collaboration and provided speakers, panellists and attendees an opportunity to consider the need to anticipate both the disruptive change and system challenges and the unique opportunities for creativity and innovation that lie ahead.

National and international experts shared their perspectives on the factors that currently, and in the future, will impact on our education and training qualifications and quality assurance systems.

We invite you to view the recordings and explore the many presentations, lightning talks and breakout sessions delivered at this anniversary conference.

Plenary session slides

Opening session

Dr Terry Hartle

Dr Linda Doyle

 

Future-Fit Quality and Qualifications: Exploring Digital Transformation

Professor Mark Brown

Professor Jacqueline McCormack

Dr Blánaid White

Walter Balfe

 

Internationalisation and the Irish Qualifications System

Dr Ailsa Crum

Dr Jim Murray

Goran Daković

 

Centring Students in Quality Assurance to Promote Equity and Engagement

Professor Peter Felten

Dr Siobhán Nic Fhlannchadha

 

Influences on Future Quality Matters

Professor Paul Giller

Professor Jane Stout

Douglas Blackstock

Dr Bryan Maguire

Breakout session slides

Lightning talk slides

Programme

Master of Ceremonies: Ms Della Kilroy

OPENING SESSION

9am - 10.15am

 

 PLENARY

HOGAN SUITE

Welcome

Joanne Harmon, Chair, QQI Board

International challenges facing the education system  

Dr Terry Hartle, Senior Vice President, American Council on Education

Changing Europe and the impacts on Irish tertiary education

Tony Connelly, Europe editor, RTÉ

Senior leader’s perspective

Dr Linda Doyle, Provost and President, Trinity College Dublin

Quality and Qualifications: Working in partnership 

Dr Padraig Walsh, CEO, QQI

Networking, coffee break and poster exhibition

10.15am

 

 PLENARY

10.45 - 11.45

HOGAN SUITE

 

Future-Fit Quality and Qualifications: Exploring Digital Transformation 

  • A Helicopter Overview of Future Trends
  • Insights into Higher Education 4.0
  • The DCU Futures Experience
  • The Development of Quality Assurance Guidelines for Fully Online Programmes
  • Panel Discussion on digital transformation

  

 

Professor Mark Brown, Director of the National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL), DCU

Professor Jacqueline McCormack, Vice President for Equality, Diversity & Inclusion and Online Development, ATU

Dr Blánaid White, Dean of Strategic Learning Innovation in Dublin City University DCU

Amanda Butler, QA Coordinator, KCETB

Walter Balfe, Head of Quality Assurance, QQI

Session chair: Dr Tony Murphy, Academic Dean, DBS

Break

11.45

 

 CONCURRENT SESSIONS

12.00 - 12.50

 PLENARY 1 - HOGAN SUITE

 

Internationalisation and the Irish qualifications system

  • The Challenges of Transnational Education
  • Internal Agency Activities (ENQA)
  • Ireland’s International Education Strategy
  • QQI’s International Education Activity 

  

 

 

Dr Ailsa Crum, Director of Membership, Quality Enhancement & Standards, QAA 

Ian McKenna, Principal Officer, International Cooperation Unit, Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (DFHERIS)

Dr Jim Murray, Director, Development Directorate, QQI

Goran Daković, Reviews Manager, European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA)

Session chair: Barbara Brittingham, President Emerita, New England Commission of Higher Education, QQI Board member

 

PLENARY 2 - CANAL CAFÉ

What next for apprenticeships?

  • Working with QQI on the Consortia-led Apprenticeships Review
  • Future Perspective from the National Apprenticeship Office

 

 

Dr Catherine Peck, independent education consultant

Sarah Miley, Principal Officer, Apprenticeship and Public Policy Partnering, DFHERIS

Dr Mary-Liz Trant, Director, National Apprenticeship Office

Session chair: Siobhán Kinsella, Managing Director, Noel Group 

Lightning talks

Apprenticeship examples from FET and HE providers with:

  • Joe Mongan, Geoscience Ireland

  • Michael Hennessy, UL

  • Lorraine Hickey, LCETB

  • Jerome Keohane, SETU

  • Andrew Kennedy, KCETB

Lunch and poster exhibition

13.00

 

 PLENARY

14.00 - 14.50

HOGAN SUITE

 

Integrity for Life: launch of the Global Academic Integrity Network (G.A.I.N.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Simon Harris TD, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science

Joanne Harmon, Chair, QQI Board

Dr Padraig Walsh, CEO, QQI

Dr Helen Gniel, Director, Higher Education Integrity Unit, Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency

Andreas Snildal, Senior Programme Officer, UNESCO

Dr Julie Reddy, CEO, SAQA

Professor Michael Draper, Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor Education, Swansea University; ETINED (Council of Europe)

Professor Cath Ellis, Associate Dean (Education) in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture at UNSW, Sydney

William Kelly, Chair, National Academic Integrity Network (NAIN); former Deputy Registrar and Dean of Teaching and Learning, DCU

Clodagh McGivern VP for Academic Affairs, USI, QQI Board Member

 

Lightning talks

Break

14.50

 

 PLENARY

15.00 - 15.55

HOGAN SUITE

 

Centring Students in Quality Assurance to Promote Equity and Engagement

  • Panel discussion: the value of student-staff partnership
  • Launch: National StudentSurvey.ie Report 2022

 

 

Keynote speaker: Professor Peter Felten, Elon University, USA

Roisín Doherty, Director, Learner Support, SOLAS

Dara Ryder, CEO, AHEAD

Anna Jakobek, Learner Representative, Cork ETB

Clodagh McGivern, VP Academic Affairs, USI, QQI Board Member

Dr Siobhán Nic Fhlannchadha, Manager, StudentSurvey.ie 

 PLENARY

16.00 - 17.00

HOGAN SUITE

 

Influences on Future Quality Matters:

  • The Future of Quality Assurance: Supplements or Major Surgery?
  • Climate Action: how will it impact on quality and qualifications?
  • Future Perspectives for European Quality Assurance
  • What role will equality, diversity and inclusion have in education?
  • QQI and the Future of Quality Assurance: Supporting our qualifications

Featuring

Professor Paul Giller, Professor Emeritus, UCC

Professor Jane Stout, VP for Biodiversity and Climate Action, Trinity College Dublin

Douglas Blackstock, President, ENQA

Dr Ross Woods, Senior Manager Centre of Excellence for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Higher Education Authority

Dr Lucy Michael, author and consultant on equality and integration issues

Dr Philip Owende, Assistant Head of Academic Affairs (Quality), TU Dublin

Dr Bryan Maguire, Director, Integration, QQI

QQI Anniversary Celebration

17.00 - 18.00

 

Master of Ceremonies: Della Kilroy

PLENARY

09.00 - 10.10

HOGAN SUITE

 

Partnership and the Technological Universities

Dr Orla Flynn, President, Atlantic Technological University

Collaboration and Development in ETBs

David Leahy, CE Galway and Roscommon Education and Training Board

Moving Forward in Partnership: University of Galway

Professor Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh, President University of Galway

Forging Partnerships in Adult and Community Education: Hope, Possibility, Justice and Action 

 Dearbháil Lawless, CEO, AONTAS

The Unified Tertiary Education System: a presentation by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science

Stephanie Thompson, Assistant Principal Officer, Strategic Policy Unit, Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (DFHERIS)

Break

10-15m

 

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

10.20 - 11.10

 

HOGAN SUITE

Refreshing the Irish Doctoral Framework (NFDE) and the significance of collaboration in research and doctoral education

 

Reflections and Visions for Modernization: Why doctoral education needs tech

 

Developing a Framework to Enhance Research Integrity in Research Collaboration

Professor Barbara Dooley, Acting Registrar and Deputy President UCD

Professor Robert Harris, Academic Vice President of Doctoral Education and Head of the International Council, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Dr Jennifer Brennan, Director of Research Development and Innovation, THEA

 

BREAKOUT ROOM (679-680)

Enterprise and Education in Partnership: Connecting programmes and employability 

Session chair: Professor Irene Sheridan, Head of Munster Technological University Extended Campus and QQI Board member

 

 

BREAKOUT ROOM (688-689)

Panel discussion: Representatives from the ETB inaugural review sectoral report group 

David Jones, OBE DL, Chair of Qualifications Wales, Joint Chair, ETB Review Sectoral Report Team

Frida Hengeveld, Joint Chair, ETB Review Sectoral Report Team

Anna Jakobek, Learner Representative, ETB Review Sectoral Report Team

Shauna Dunlop, Director of Research, Data and Strategic Engagement, SOLAS

Blake Hodkinson, Director of Further Education and Training, City of Dublin ETB

Session chair: Keith Brumfitt, Sectoral Report Writer

 

BREAKOUT ROOM (681-682)

The Future of StudentSurvey.ie in the Higher Education policy landscape: A Design-Thinking Workshop

Dr Threase Kessie, Assistant Lecturer & Manager of Innovation Projects 

Maynooth University Innovation Lab, Maynooth University 

Ms Derry Akin, Research Assistant 

Maynooth University Innovation Lab, Maynooth University

 

 

Networking, coffee break and poster exhibition

11.10

 

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

11.30 - 12.15

 

HOGAN SUITE

Panel discussion: Combatting the Global Threat to Academic Integrity: What Can Be Done?

 

 

 

 

 

William Kelly, Chair, National Academic Integrity Network (NAIN); former Deputy Registrar and Dean of Teaching and Learning, DCU

Dr Helen Gniel, Director, Higher Education Integrity Unit, Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency

Professor Cath Ellis, Associate Dean (Education) in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture at UNSW, Sydney

Professor Michael Draper, Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor Education, Swansea University; ETINED (Council of Europe)

 

Lightning Talks

  • Nuala Harding, Head of the Centre for Pedagogical Innovation and Development, Technological University of the Shannon 
  • Michelle Tooher & Mairéad Greene, University of Galway
 

BREAKOUT ROOM (683-684)

Digital Transformations Impacting on Programme Delivery and Student Experience 

 

 

Session chair: Professor Jacqueline McCormack, VP for Equality, Diversity & Inclusion and Online Development, ATU 

 

BREAKOUT ROOM (681-682)

Embedding a Culture of Student-Staff Partnership: Reflections on successful student-staff collaborations 

Session chair: Oisín Hassan, Manager, NStEP

 

 

 PLENARY

12.20 - 12.45

 

HOGAN SUITE 

Microcredentials and Microqualifications

 

 

Dr Lynn Ramsey, Director of MicroCreds, IUA

Mary Lyons, Director, Enterprise, Employees and Skills, SOLAS

PLENARY

12.50 - 13.00

HOGAN SUITE

 

Closing Remarks  

John Walshe, award-winning journalist, consultant and commentator on educational issues 

CANAL CAFÉ

13.00-14.00

 

Lunch Pod with leaders of the Doctoral Education breakout session

 

Professor Barbara Dooley and Professor Bob Harris