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Michal
Nominated By: Michal Neumann
Nominee Application Form: Part A
Title: Ms.
Family Names(s): Neumann
Mailing Address: michal@che.org.il
Country: Israel
Office Telephone: +972-2-5669938 (ext-106)
Office Fax: +972-2-5611914
Residence Telephone: _972-50-6237061
Email: michal@che.org.il
Nationality/Citizenship: Israeli
Date of Birth: 23-08-1966
Current Position: Head of the Quality Assessment Unit
Current Employer: The Israeli Council for Higher Education
Please indicate your fluency levels in various languages (Comma Separated)
Fluent in Reading: Hebrew,English
Fluent in Writing: Hebrew,English
Fluent in Speaking: Hebrew,English
Academic Qualifications and Training
1. Degree, Institution, Year Completed: B.A. in Middle East Studies,Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel,1991
2. Degree, Institution, Year Completed: M.A. in Public Policy (cum laude),Tel Aviv University, Israel,2006
Nominee Application Form: Part B
Areas:
- Program reviews / accreditations
- General QA consultancy
Specialisations:
- Setting up of new QA agency
- Training of experts/external reviewers
- Self study guidance to institutions
- External review of institutions
- Quality Indicators and benchmarks
- QA of Open learning institutes
Examples of Experience: National & International Consultations / Audit / Review
1. Brief Description: I am the first director of the QAU. I've built the Israeli QA system and mechanizm from scratch, thus I can consult on what steps should be made in order to build a good system and avoid mistakes
Institution/City/Country: The Council for Higher Education, Jerusalem, Israel
Date: since 2004
Type of Experience:
- Consultancy
2. Brief Description: I carry out yearly workshops on self-evaluation where we guide the departments and the institutions how to go through the self evaluation process.
Institution/City/Country: The Council for Higher Education, Jerusalem, Israel. The workshops are open to all relevant departments/HEI's
Date: since 2004
Type of Experience:
- Consultancy
- Programme Review / Accreditation
3. Brief Description: I carry out evaluators training every year to dozens of professors from Israel and abroad - members of our QA committees (about 6 committees every year composed of 5-7 professors).
Institution/City/Country: The Council for Higher Education, Jerusalem, Israel. The trainings are made per committee
Date: since 2004
Type of Experience:
- Consultancy
- Programme Review / Accreditation
Nominee Application Form: Part C
Please write a professional profile of 500 words.
Professional Summary Description: I work for the Israeli Council for Higher Education over 13 years. At the beginning (1996-2004) I was In Charge of Accreditation of the Academic Colleges. In this position I was responsible for all aspects of accreditation in academic colleges, including activation and coordination of academic accreditation committees, liaison between the colleges and the Council for Higher Education, and participation in the process of policy formulation and oversight.
Since 2004 I am the head of the quality assessment unit (the Quality Assessment Unit was established in order to carry out the Council for Higher Education decision to establish a Quality Assurance system in the Higher Education sector in Israel). This role includes: preparation of a five year plan of the quality assurance activity, including policy, budgetary and human resources aspects (including qualifying the Quality Assessment Unit staff); assistance and guidance of the higher education institutions with the self evaluation process; activation of the international quality assessment/evaluation committees (about 6 committees a year); preparing the evaluation reports for presentation to Council for Higher Education various forums; responsible for international relations with non-Israeli Quality Assurance organizations.
I coordinated the advisory committee and wrote with them the Guidelines for Self-Evaluation, the Evaluators Reminder/manual and most of the regulations of the Quality Assessment Unit.
I also coordinate the Council for Higher Education Sub-Committee for Quality Assurance (chaired by the Deputy Chair of the Council for Higher Education), which is the Board of the Quality Assessment Unit.
Since 2004 I am the head of the quality assessment unit (the Quality Assessment Unit was established in order to carry out the Council for Higher Education decision to establish a Quality Assurance system in the Higher Education sector in Israel). This role includes: preparation of a five year plan of the quality assurance activity, including policy, budgetary and human resources aspects (including qualifying the Quality Assessment Unit staff); assistance and guidance of the higher education institutions with the self evaluation process; activation of the international quality assessment/evaluation committees (about 6 committees a year); preparing the evaluation reports for presentation to Council for Higher Education various forums; responsible for international relations with non-Israeli Quality Assurance organizations.
I coordinated the advisory committee and wrote with them the Guidelines for Self-Evaluation, the Evaluators Reminder/manual and most of the regulations of the Quality Assessment Unit.
I also coordinate the Council for Higher Education Sub-Committee for Quality Assurance (chaired by the Deputy Chair of the Council for Higher Education), which is the Board of the Quality Assessment Unit.
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