Services
Quality assurance and development in higher education (national and international)
- Consulting to higher education institutions regarding programme and institutional accreditation procedures
- Workshops concerning franchising of programmes in higher education
- Trainings of experts
- Reports (expert’s opinion)
- Individual consulting services
About
Dr. Heinz-Ulrich Schmidt
former Director General of Higher Education and Research
- Special Representative of Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation (FIBAA), Bonn/Zurich (former Managing Director) until end of 2020
- Schmidt-Consult – Quality Assurance in Higher Education, Bonn
Professional background
- Federal Ministry of Science and Research, department “Higher Education”, Bonn, Germany, 1970 – 1995
- Director General of Higher Education and Research in Ministry for Higher Education Research and Cultural Affairs, government of Brandenburg, Potsdam, Germany, 1995 – 2002
- Honorary Professor at University Transilvania Brasov, Romania, 1995-1999
National and international professional QA-experience
- Proven experience within an ENQA and EQAR recognised agency; implementation of Bologna action lines (national and international); national and international trainings of internal QA-officers and external assessors; national and international experience in developing QA-standards (e.g. East-Africa) and accreditation criteria (Germany; Georgia; Albania); design of training needs and trainings (Georgia; Lebanon; Thailand; Philippines; Russia; Albania…); SAR-analyses; writing of accreditation reports; ENQA-expert (e.g. Armenia); ENQA-reviewer (since 2014); INQAAHE reviewer 2016
- Short Time Expert (STE) in Twinning Project „Capacity Enhancement for Implementing the Bologna Action Lines in Georgia (CEIBAL) as expert in NQF and in quality assurance procedures (programme and institutional level)
- STE in DIES ASEAN QA project „Capacity building“ (DAAD-German Rectors’ Conference-SEAMO RIHED-AQUAN-AUN–ENQA-University Potsdam)
- STE in Twinning Project “Empowerment of the Tertiary Level Education of the Republic of Armenia for European Higher Education Area Integration“
- Involved in TEMPUS-Project IV – Structural Measures (Armenia): chair of the general working group set up for the purposes of revision of the frameworks and implementation of Bologna action lines in Armenia
- INQAAHE Reviewer, 2016
- International Expert on 1. International Conference on Quality Assurance in Higher Education, Peshawar, December 18 – 19 2017
- Reviewer in or manager of external quality assurance of study programmes (law, economics/business administration, social sciences) in different EHEA countries (e.g. Vilnius College, Lethuania; National University of Georgia, Tblisi, Georgia; University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan; Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritim Transport (AASTMT) College of International Transport and Logistics, Cairo, Egypt); recently: Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Doha, Qatar (2020)
- Workshop “How to write a Self Assessment Report (SAR), KIMEP University, Almaty, Kasachstan, Oktober 2021, 25 participants
- FIBAA-workshops: „Institutional Accreditation by the German Council of Science and Humanities – Criteria and Procedure”; “Franchising of programmes – Requirements, implementation, legal framework”
- Scientific Committee of ARACIS, national Romanian quality assurance agency, Budapest; (2009–2011)
- Supervisory Board of AKORK, (Russian quality assurance agency), Moscow; (2009-2012)
- Member of the PNQAHE Advisory Board, Pakistan, since 2017
- Chair of the University Board of Karlshochschule International University, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2015 – 2019
- International scientific conference “STEM Higher Education for Mekong Delta Development”, Can Tho University, Can Tho, Vietnam, 2017
- Member of Expert Team of the Institute for Research on Training and Human Resource Development (HTD Institute), Hanoi, Vietnam, since 2023
- Contribution: “Writing Self-Assessment Report for Programme Assessment”, Training Workshop, Ho Chi Minh City University of Law, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2023
- Contribution: “Writing Self-Assessment Report for Programme Assessment”, Training Workshop, The Institute for Research on Training and Human Ressource Development (HTD), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2023
- Presentation „FIBAA Quality Seal ‚Excellence in Digital Education‘“, 4th International Conference of PNQAHE „Future Proofing Quality Assurance in Higher Education“, March 3 – 5, 2024, Islamabad, Pakistan
- Member of the committee „ Revision of the Constitution of the Pakistan Network for Quality assurance in Higher Education (PNQAHE)“, Oktober 2024 until April 2025 (videoconferences)
Examples of international activities
Last Publication
Learning Outcomes: Core Issues in Higher Education, in: Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Foreign Language Education, Editor: Donald F. Staub, Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019, ISBN: 978-3-030-21420-3 / ISBN: 978-3-030-21421-0 (eBook), p. 179-190
Imprint
Address
Dr. Heinz-Ulrich Schmidt
Schmidt-Consult
Fasanenstr. 26
D-53179 Bonn
Phone: +49-228-9340389
Fax: +49-228-9340388
Email: heinz-ulrich@schmidt-consult.info
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Dr. Heinz-Ulrich Schmidt (mailing address see above)
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Contact
Dr. Heinz-Ulrich Schmidt
Schmidt-Consult
Fasanenstr. 26
D-53179 Bonn
Phone: +49-228-9340389
Fax: +49-228- 9340388
Mobile: +49-171-8332928
Email: heinz-ulrich@schmidt-consult.info