Teaching quality is a permanent aspiration for EINA. Since its founding in 1967 the centre has had the double target adapting the design learning processes to the requirements of higher education and to create an environment where the design practice incorporated the theoretical innovation intertwined with other image disciplines, which granted it the Creu de Sant Jordi by the Generalitat de Catalunya in 1987 and the Premio Nacional de Diseño by the Ministry of Industry for its “teaching merit” in the year 2000.
The binding agreement with the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona signed in 1994 and updated in 2009 and 2019, and the development of the Higher Degree in Design (UAB degree) fostered the adoption of measures aimed at improving effectiveness and efficiency in resource management and the commitment to quality and continual improvement. The development of the Design Degree and the Master in Research in Art and Design (MURAD), fully registered degrees in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) a new boost has been given to the inclusion of quality culture at EINA.
In order to guarantee the obtaining of the required quality levels EINA has developed an Internal Guarantee and Quality System (IGQS) according to the guidelines of the UAB and the Agency for the Quality of the University System in Catalonia (AQU), which allows the development of data obtaining mechanisms, documentation of the processes, their recognition and incorporation in the decision-making. All of them necessary processes to guarantee the university teaching quality and facilitating its objective assessment by third parties.
The introduction of quality cultura in EINA is concretised in three areas:
- Physical resources for learning: creation of a specialized library, a mockup and prototype workshop, a graphic creation workshop, an exhibition hall and an annual renovation and improvement plan of the IT resources available to students.
- Human Resources for learning: naming of a deputy director responsible for the implementation of the Internal Quality System as well as mobility and degree coordinators and the development of a Tutorial Action Plan (in Catalan).
- Management and administration resources: creation of data and information management and diffusion, adaptation and development of management IT apps and implementation of a self publishing (print electronic) service.
Internal Guarantee and Quality System (in Catalan)
Devised by the Quality Comission and approved by EINAS Board, it adapts the UAB manual model of Internal Quality System to EINA's specificities and its degrees. In this sense the IQS follows up on the internship experiences already placed in the centre (internship, mobility and graduate employability monitoring programmes, satisfaction surveys and end of studies projects etc.) to propose improvements in the fields of coordination, function assignment, documentation and public information.
The aims of the IGQS are:
- The creation of systematic information gathering and analysis processes to allow the assessing of the activity in the centre (enrolment rates, efficiency, satisfaction degree of agents etc.) and the adoption of improvement and rectification measures according to malfunctions.
- The periodical up-to-date, impartial and objective information publishing, both quantitative and qualitative, about the programmes and degrees. EINA is provided with an information network (self publishing service, its own website, intranet etc.) fostered by the IQS to ensure the data dissemination providing the necessary information about the title (objectives, profiles, graduate employment) and the involvement with the society of which EINA is part (research and transfer programmes).
- Establishing evaluation and teaching quality and teacher improvement procedures.
The Quality Comission is the organ of management of the Center in the field of teaching quality.
Organ Composition
- Tània Costa, Academic Director
- Sara Coscarelli, Deputy Director and Quality Manager
- Javier Nieto, Director of innovation and enterprise
- Vivian Fernàndez, Quality Manager
- Enric Mas, Member of teaching staff
- Lara Garcia, Member of Teaching Staff
- Joan Cortiella, Member of technical, management and administration and services staff
Sistema interno de garantia de la calidad (SIGQ)
Procesos Estratégicos
- PEQ01 - Definición, despegamiento y seguimiento del SIGQ
- PEQ02 - Establecer mecanismos para asegurar la información y la rendición de cuentas
- PEQ03 - Creación y diseño de nuevas titulaciones
- PEQ04 - Acreditación de las titulaciones
- PEQ05 - Captación de alumnos
- PEQ06 - Sistema de selección del profesorado
Procesos Operativos
- POQ01 - Seguimiento, evaluación y mejora de las titulaciones
- POQ02 - Sistema para la modificación de los títulos
- POQ03 - Sistema para la extinción de títulos
- POQ04 - Programación docente de las asignaturas. Guías Docentes
- POQ05 - Evaluación de la actuación docente por parte del alumnado
- POQ06 - Evaluación a nivel de satisfacción del profesorado, PAS i alumnado
- POQ07 - Gestión de las prácticas externas
- POQ08 - Gestión del Trabajo Final de Estudios
- POQ09 - Orientación al alumnado
- POQ10 - Evaluación del alumnado
- POQ11 - Gestión de la movilidad del alumnado, PDI y PAS
Processos de Soporte
- PSQ01 - Gestión Documental
- PSQ02 - Formación del PDI y del PAS
- PSQ03 - Gestión de los Recursos Materiales
- PSQ04 - Gestión de los Servicios
- PSQ05 - Organización Académica
- PSQ06 - Gestión de quejas y sugerencias