Press release -
EDU and Maastricht University specify the scope and content of their collaboration and supervision of teaching
Kalkara, Maastricht, Thursday, July 23, 2020. EDU, Europe's first digital medical school with a degree in Medicine, has been cooperating with the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (FHML) at Maastricht University since February this year. The collaboration covers curricular topics, digital contexts, and the implementation of evaluation and supervision as stipulated in Article 24 of the EU Directive 2005/36/EC.
Both contracting parties have now agreed to the details in a supplementary contract, which has been examined and approved by EDU’s regulatory board of supervision, the National Commission for Further and Higher Education of the Republic of Malta.
The approach which Maastricht University has committed to undertake and provide in relation to the scope, content, and modalities of the supervision of the education supplied by EDU and its Teaching Hospitals, revolves around six main themes including the assessment and quality assurance, review and evaluation of the medical training, staff training, appointment of the curriculum committee, expert meetings and audits.
Jürgen Laartz, founding director of EDU: "With our agreement, EDU highlights its self-imposed expectations to uphold the highest standards of teaching quality. We are looking forward to a trustful cooperation with our colleagues in Maastricht, which will serve the continuous quality assurance."
Topics
- Adult education
EDU is Europe’s first digital Institution of Higher Education to offer degree programmes in Health, Medicine and Education online. By introducing medical students to practical experiences in clinical rotations at the beginning of their studies, EDU is defining a new paradigm for medical education in the 21st Century.
With a theoretical curriculum that can be managed from anywhere for anywhere in the world with an internet connection, EDU’s core model can scale globally to provide medical and healthcare education to the highest standards.
EDU is an Institution of Higher Education licensed under the Maltese Education Act with license number 2018-10 by the National Commission for Further and Higher Education (NCFHE). EDU is operated by Digital Education Holdings Limited (DEH) Registration Number C 82123. DEH‘s Tax Registration Number is 998643308.
