The University of Bamberg as a professional development program in a blended-learning format offers the international Master’s programme “Educational Quality in Developing Countries” (IMPEQ). It was developed to respond to the skills shortage with regard to educational quality development in developing countries, especially in Sub-Sahara-Africa.

The aim of the program is to provide people in leadership positions of the education systems with in-depth knowledge and leadership competencies to bring about change in their education systems, to be able to design, influence, manage and evaluate reform processes in their systems. Besides, the programme facilitates the emergence of qualified research capacities that can support the development of educational quality in the respective countries.

The programme was developed in close cooperation with education experts from Sub-Sahara Africa and development cooperation in order to provide a programme that fits the needs of those working in the education sectors in developing countries.

The programme covers a period of two years. As a blended-learning programme, it alternates between periods of attendance and periods of self-learning, during which students continue with their regular work. The programme starts with a four-week period of attendance in Bamberg, followed by three four-week periods in Butare/Rwanda and a final four-week period again in Bamberg, finishing with a graduation ceremony.

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Publications

• Ress, Susanne, Njobati, Frederick, Scheunpflug Annette (2024 accepted). Change of perspective in transformation processes: A case study on online teaching for under-served adult students. In International Review of Education.

• Krogull, Susanne, Scheunpflug, Annette (2017): Der internationale Weiterbildungsmaster „Educational Quality in Developing Countries“ – Ein Instrument zur Entwicklung von Bildungsqualität und Forschungskompetenz“. In: Zeitschrift für internationale Bildungsforschung und Entwicklungspädagogik. 40. Jg., H.2, S. 4-8.

• Krogull, Susanne und Scheunpflug, Annette (2015): International Master’s Programm Educational Quality in Developing Countries: Entwicklung von Kompetenzen für pädagogische Führungskräfte. In: Stephan Gerhard Huber, Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft und Robert Bosch Stiftung (Hg.): Schule gemeinsam gestalten – Entwicklung von Kompetenzen für pädagogische Führung. Beiträge zu Leadership in der Lehrerbildung. Münster: Waxmann, S. 310-315.