Scoping study of Quality Assurance Mechanisms in selected NATURA Universities:

The scoping study on quality assurance mechanisms in selected European universities of the NATURA network was conducted as one of the activities under RUFORUM’s EDULINK project titled “Strengthening the capacity of universities in eastern, central and southern Africa to offer quality graduate programmes”. The overall objective of the project was to enhance capacities of universities in eastern, central and southern Africa to offer quality graduate training, especially PhD level. The results of the EDULINK project were: (1) Strengthened quality assurance mechanisms in the Eastern, Central and Southern Africa (ECSA) universities (2) Strengthened capacities and competencies of ECSA universities to implement graduate training programmes (3) Enhanced regional and international partnerships for effective and efficient graduate training