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Josep
Nominated By: Josep Grifoll
Nominee Application Form: Part A
Title: Mr.
Family Names(s): Grifoll
Mailing Address: Dos, 13
08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona
08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona
Country: Spain
Office Telephone: 34 93 268 89 50
Office Fax: 34 93 268 89 51
Email: jgrifoll@aqu.cat
Nationality/Citizenship: Spanish
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 14-10-1968
Current Position: Head of Department Quality Assessment
Current Employer: AQU Catalunya
Please indicate your fluency levels in various languages (Comma Separated)
Fluent in Reading: SPANISH,ENGLISH,FRENCH
Fluent in Writing: SPANISH,ENGLISH,FRENCH
Fluent in Speaking: SPANISH,ENGLISH,FRENCH
Academic Qualifications and Training
1. Degree, Institution, Year Completed: Economy 5 year degree Licence, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 1993
2. Degree, Institution, Year Completed: East Asian Studies Master, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2007
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
- QA of Open learning institutes
- Institutional assessment
- Institutional quality audits
- Institutional accreditation
- Student feedback and surveys
Examples of Experience: National & International Consultations / Audit / Review
1. Brief Description: Consulting to develop internal QA system at the university
Institution/City/Country: Royal University Phnom Penh Cambodia
Date: 2014
Type of Experience:
- Consultancy
2. Brief Description: Evaluation of university degrees
Institution/City/Country: Law and Economics University Phnom Penh Cambodia
Date: 2013
Type of Experience:
- Programme Review / Accreditation
3. Brief Description: Pre-checking of the QA agency against the ESG
Institution/City/Country: NCEQE - National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement Tbilisi Georgia
Date: 2013
Type of Experience:
- Consultancy
- Institutional Audit / Assessment
4. Brief Description: Institutional Evaluation Costa Sur University center
Institution/City/Country: University of Guadalajara Autlán México
Date: 2008
Type of Experience:
- Institutional Audit / Assessment
- Programme Review / Accreditation
Nominee Application Form: Part C
Please write a professional profile of 500 words.
Professional Summary Description: Economist (UAB 1993) and Master East Asian Studies (UOC 2008).
Expert on strategic development of quality assurance for Higher Education.
I have been involved in many different activities in this area: from methodology design, to external reviews, consulting for universities and QA agencies or training staff and reviewers.
I have a worldwide perspective on Quality Assurance for Higher Education and I have been an active member of the European community of experts for quality assurance in higher education.
Technical director for institutional and study programmes evaluations in AQU Catalunya.
ENQA expert for international projects
EURASHE expert
WUSMED expert
I am ENQA expert in the ASEAN-QA project coordinated by the DAAD and the University of Potsdam.
I am chairing the Working Group for QA of Joint Programmes in the European Consortium for Accreditation.
I have been appointed ENQA representative in the EU-Share project in South East Asia.
AQU Catalunya expert in a EU Tempus Project in the Russian Federation in order to develop a QA agency in the field of agriculture.
Coordinator of the ENQA survey on QA internationalisation.
Coordinator of the ENQA working group about the impact of external QA in HE.
Member of the Board of ENQA (elected in 2008) till 2014 (end of the term)
Elected vice-president of ENQA 2013-2014.
Since 1997 I am working in AQU Catalunya on QA processes for programmes and higher education institutions.
I represented ENQA in a European Commission project to assess the quality of the Erasmus Mundus programmes, 2013-2014
Appointed by ENQA to conduct a pre-checking consulting of the Georgia Quality Assurance agency in Tbilisi against the European Standards and Guidelines for QA in HE, 2013.
Consultant to implement a training service for the university staff at the Moldovan Higher Education Institutions on quality assurance 2013.
Trainer of quality assurance agencies reviewers according the ESG.
I represented ENQA in designing the self-assessment tool, in the EURASHE promoted project to develop lifelong learning strategies in HEI. FLLLEX. 2012
Member of the steering committee of EQAF (the European Quality Assurance Forum) in 2010 and 2011.
Coordinator of the 2011 edition of the ENQA Survey on
QA procedures “Visions for the future”.
Member of the review panel to develop pilot accreditations of Higher
Education study programmes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2012
I have coordinated a review of the university degrees in the Costa Sur Center at the University of Guadalajara (Mexico) in 2008.
I coordinated a review of the Faculty of Law in the San Martín de Porres University in Lima (Perú) in 2008
AQU Catalunya expert in the first European Transnational evaluations for bachelor and master programmes according the Bologna Process. TEEP 1 and TEEP 2 in 2004-2006.
Before being involved in QA for Higher Education, I worked at Nissan Motor doing job evaluations.
I also was worked for the Universitat Politècnica developing systems to manage the PhD office.
Expert on strategic development of quality assurance for Higher Education.
I have been involved in many different activities in this area: from methodology design, to external reviews, consulting for universities and QA agencies or training staff and reviewers.
I have a worldwide perspective on Quality Assurance for Higher Education and I have been an active member of the European community of experts for quality assurance in higher education.
Technical director for institutional and study programmes evaluations in AQU Catalunya.
ENQA expert for international projects
EURASHE expert
WUSMED expert
I am ENQA expert in the ASEAN-QA project coordinated by the DAAD and the University of Potsdam.
I am chairing the Working Group for QA of Joint Programmes in the European Consortium for Accreditation.
I have been appointed ENQA representative in the EU-Share project in South East Asia.
AQU Catalunya expert in a EU Tempus Project in the Russian Federation in order to develop a QA agency in the field of agriculture.
Coordinator of the ENQA survey on QA internationalisation.
Coordinator of the ENQA working group about the impact of external QA in HE.
Member of the Board of ENQA (elected in 2008) till 2014 (end of the term)
Elected vice-president of ENQA 2013-2014.
Since 1997 I am working in AQU Catalunya on QA processes for programmes and higher education institutions.
I represented ENQA in a European Commission project to assess the quality of the Erasmus Mundus programmes, 2013-2014
Appointed by ENQA to conduct a pre-checking consulting of the Georgia Quality Assurance agency in Tbilisi against the European Standards and Guidelines for QA in HE, 2013.
Consultant to implement a training service for the university staff at the Moldovan Higher Education Institutions on quality assurance 2013.
Trainer of quality assurance agencies reviewers according the ESG.
I represented ENQA in designing the self-assessment tool, in the EURASHE promoted project to develop lifelong learning strategies in HEI. FLLLEX. 2012
Member of the steering committee of EQAF (the European Quality Assurance Forum) in 2010 and 2011.
Coordinator of the 2011 edition of the ENQA Survey on
QA procedures “Visions for the future”.
Member of the review panel to develop pilot accreditations of Higher
Education study programmes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2012
I have coordinated a review of the university degrees in the Costa Sur Center at the University of Guadalajara (Mexico) in 2008.
I coordinated a review of the Faculty of Law in the San Martín de Porres University in Lima (Perú) in 2008
AQU Catalunya expert in the first European Transnational evaluations for bachelor and master programmes according the Bologna Process. TEEP 1 and TEEP 2 in 2004-2006.
Before being involved in QA for Higher Education, I worked at Nissan Motor doing job evaluations.
I also was worked for the Universitat Politècnica developing systems to manage the PhD office.
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