List of Project Deliverables - Outcomes

The EU best practices, national trends, priorities and cultures in higher education quality assurance are studied and analysed based on experience of Technical University of Kosice.

The main focus of study is Slovak QA and ISO standartisation of TUKE.

The main conclusions:
- standartisation according to the ISO 9001:2000 supports life-long increase of the university quality manadgement effieciency and education service. It made the University analyse and optimize its management structure; simplify and automate all internal administrative processes;
- University autonomy, participation in international projects, transparency of the QA procedures (e.g. mandatory Web-publication of data used for ranking), etc. are the main results of the new QA system;
- QMS is implemented in two ways: one system (QMS) for one university; individual QMS for each faculty;
Quality Management System Applied in Education (QMSE) declares the teaching staff professional approach; composes a formulation of the quality measures and quality criteria for education; maintains a student discipline and interest in education, appropriate study programs, fulfilling educational needs of students and ability of self-management; strengthens the trust of public into the teaching/education and the self-confidence&self/awareness of teachers; makes closer match of education process and the needs&expectations of internal and external partners.

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The EU best practices, national trends, priorities and cultures in higher education quality assurance are studied and analysed based on experience of University of Jyvaskyla.

The main focus of study is influence of innovation on QA.

Presentations and discussion results:
Link to the page of the project Wiki-space.

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The EU best practices, national trends, priorities and cultures in higher education quality assurance are studied and analysed based on experience of University of Coimbra.

The main focus of study is influence of innovation on QA.

The main conclusions:
- QA and internalization of the education should be the main prioriries of universities in Ukraine;
- an independent QA organization should be created in Ukraine;
- a large amount of documents prepared by universities as reports are never used for real QA while important indices related to the innovation activity of universities are not included in the Ukrainian QA reports;
- contrary to Portugal it`s academic staff in Ukraine who performs preparation of QA reports and materials;
- existing quantity indices don`t reflect the real situation that`s why it`s offered to introduce quality indices.
- a list of important indicators (in percent) is created.

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Text of the QA concept

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The link to the ontology interface at the National QA Portal

Ontology figure

Text-book "Quality matters: how to value and evaluate higher education"

Manual "We share because we care: reloading the processes of quality assurance in the Ukrainian higher education"

The IT technologies, datamodels and information systems supporting QA were studied during study visits to Technical University of Kosice and University of Coimbra. Semantic ontology-based technologies supporting QA were the main topic of the study.

The working group summarized the obtained knowledge and developed a specification for the required semantic QA system.

portal.dovira.eu

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Manual "National Higher Education Quality Assurance Portal: user`s guide"

Manual "National Higher Education Quality Assurance Portal: guide for integration of external systems with the portal (developer`s guide)"

A proposal of the Consortium members about improvement of regulations on internationalization was included to the recommendations of the Parliament Committee of Education and Science during the round table on the 08th of November, 2013.

Recommendations about parts of Educational Economics and Educational Structure of the new Law about Higher Education were developed by project team member Svitlana Gryshko and presented at the work group meeting on the 9th of August, 2013.

Project recommendations on HE regulations improvement were presented by project team member Taras Dobko to the new authorities in the Ministry of Education and Science on the 1st of February, 2014.

Project recommendations for the draft of the Concept on reforms in the System of Accreditation and Licensing of HE were presented on the 28th of March, 2014.

The project team member Lyudmyla Titova developed propositions and detailed explanation of its importance to the Decree #98 of the Cabinet of Ministries from 2/02/2011.

The culture of transparent and visible quality assurance for wide society in Partner country was supported by the development of corresponding training techniques and materials. Procedures and electronic materials were prepared for internal trainings and for communication with local stakeholders.

Presentations of the new QA system application for different groups of stakeholders:

Master file of presentation for teachers (in Ukrainian)

Master file of presentation for students (in Ukrainian)

Master file of presentation for university applicants (in Ukrainian)

Master file of presentation for applicants parents (in Ukrainian)

Master file of presentation for companies and employers of graduates (in Ukrainian)

Master file of presentation for high level managers (Ministry officials) (in Ukrainian)

Master file of presentation "Qualitative Higher Education: we know how to get it" (in Ukrainian)

Presentation of the IT tool (National QA Portal) supporting the new QA system.

Schedule of the planned trainings and dissemination held by CHNU

Schedule of the planned trainings and dissemination held by NAMPCA

Schedule of the planned trainings and dissemination held by UASS

Schedule of the planned trainings and dissemination held by UCU

The new QA System was presented and discussed at national and regional levels with stakeholders. Regional round tables were organized for students, companies, regional authorities and wide society.

Schedule of the roadshow

The governance model for the ontology, the portal and portal-based processes

The portal-based processes

The sustainablilty plan with budget