APQN Database of Consultants
Alexander
Nominated By: Alexander Kohler
Nominee Application Form: Part A
Title: Mr.
Family Names(s): Kohler
Mailing Address: Wickenburggasse 26
1080 Wien
Austria
1080 Wien
Austria
Country: Austria
Office Telephone: +43 1 319 44 50-11
Office Fax: +43 1 319 44 50-20
Residence Telephone: +43 664 1524152
Email: alexander.kohler@aqa.ac.at
Nationality/Citizenship: Austrian
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 08-07-1967
Current Position: Managing Director
Current Employer: Austrian Agency for Quality Assurance
Please indicate your fluency levels in various languages (Comma Separated)
Fluent in Reading: English, French
Fluent in Writing: English, French
Fluent in Speaking: English, French
Academic Qualifications and Training
1. Degree, Institution, Year Completed: Diploma Studies in Econcomics and Business Administration,Vienna University of Business and Economics,1993
Nominee Application Form: Part B
Areas:
- Institutional quality assurance reviews / audits
- Program reviews / accreditations
- General QA consultancy
Specialisations:
- Setting up of new QA agency
- Training of experts/external reviewers
- Internal QA of institutions
- Self study guidance to institutions
- External review of institutions
- Quality Indicators and benchmarks
- External Review of QAAs
- Institutional assessment
- Institutional quality audits
- Institutional accreditation
- QA of cross border offerings
- Student feedback and surveys
- Research assessment
Examples of Experience: National & International Consultations / Audit / Review
1. Brief Description: Setting up of a new QA Agency in Austria
Institution/City/Country: Austrian Agency for Qualiy Assurance (AQA)
Date: 2004
Type of Experience:
- Consultancy
2. Brief Description: Development of a national scheme for external QA
Institution/City/Country: AQA
Date: 2005-08
Type of Experience:
- Consultancy
- Institutional Audit / Assessment
- Programme Review / Accreditation
3. Brief Description: Co-ordination of programme and organisational reviews, quality Audits
Institution/City/Country: various Austrian and foreign HEI
Date: 2004-ongoing
Type of Experience:
- Institutional Audit / Assessment
- Programme Review / Accreditation
4. Brief Description: Consultancy of HEI fpor setting up internal QM mechanisms
Institution/City/Country: various Austrian and foreign HEI
Date: 2004-ongoing
Type of Experience:
- Consultancy
Nominee Application Form: Part C
Please write a professional profile of 500 words.
Professional Summary Description: current position: managing director of a QA agency
prior positions: management of a national agency for the administation of European Funds at national level; national expert to the European Commission; head of higher education research department
prior positions: management of a national agency for the administation of European Funds at national level; national expert to the European Commission; head of higher education research department
Documents Submitted
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