European Sectoral Social Partners in education promoting quality of academic teaching and management

Stevenson, Howard; Clancy, Sharon; Vega Castillo, Maria Antonietta

European Sectoral Social Partners in education promoting quality of academic teaching and management

Stevenson, Howard; Clancy, Sharon; Vega Castillo, Maria Antonietta

Authors

HOWARD STEVENSON Howard.Stevenson@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

Dr SHARON CLANCY SHARON.CLANCY@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Associate Professor

Maria Antonietta Vega Castillo

Citation

Stevenson, H., Clancy, S., & Vega Castillo, M. A. (2022). European Sectoral Social Partners in education promoting quality of academic teaching and management. Brussels, Belgium: European Federation of Education Employers

Report Type	Project Report
Publication Date	Apr 30, 2022
Deposit Date	May 15, 2023
Publicly Available Date	Jun 7, 2023
Pages	43
Keywords	higher education management, social dialogue
Public URL	https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/20822126
Publisher URL	https://www.csee-etuce.org/en/resources/publications/4939-research-report-european-sectoral-social-partners-in-education-promoting-quality-of-academic-teaching-and-management-2022
Additional Information	This report is part of the project ‘European Sectoral Social Partners in education: promoting quality of academic teaching and management’ that is sponsored by the European Federation of Education Employers (EFEE) and conducted in conjunction with the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE). The immediate context of the report is provided by the Rome Ministerial Communiqué 2020 (EHEA Rome 2020a), which represents the latest stage in the project set in motion by the Bologna Process 1999. One of the key priority areas identified in the Rome Communiqué is a commitment to enhance the quality of teaching and learning across the higher education sector. The Communiqué acknowledges the importance of mobilising a collective effort to create the conditions in which change is possible and through which the Communiqué’s aims can be secured. This report focuses on the specific contribution that social dialogue can make to mobilising this collective effort. Social dialogue is uniquely placed to engage social partners (higher education employers and education trade unions) in a process capable of navigating an increasingly challenging higher education environment. This report provides an overview of a number of contextual issues (the notion of ‘quality’ in higher education teaching, the European higher education policy agenda and social dialogue arrangements) before presenting research findings from the project and recommendations. The data draws on a survey distributed to all EFEE and ETUCE member organisations.