1 / 30

The Russian Quality Assurance System

Outline . Fundamental changes in the Russian educational systemMain steps in the establishment of QA system and the current QA frameworkNational Accreditation Agency's activity Compliance of the QA system with ESG-ENQA . I. Fundamental changes in the educational system during 15 years. The incre

latoya
Download Presentation

The Russian Quality Assurance System

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

    1. The Russian Quality Assurance System Galina Motova, Ph.D, D.Sc. National Accreditation Agency of the Russian Federation Deputy Director

    2. Outline Fundamental changes in the Russian educational system Main steps in the establishment of QA system and the current QA framework National Accreditation Agency’s activity Compliance of the QA system with ESG-ENQA

    3. I. Fundamental changes in the educational system during 15 years The increase of the number of students and universities The establishment and increase of the number of Private universities The increase of the number of branches of Public and Private university The modification of the State control functions: the delegation of some of the quality assurance responsibilities to public bodies

    6. Increase of the number of branches (Public and Private Universities)

    8. The Structure of Higher Education in Russia Federal Public Institutions – 684 Regional Public Institutions – 55 Municipal Institutions – 13 Private Institutions – 674 Total HEIs – 1426 Branches of the HEI – 2134 Programs – over 30 000 Students – over 7 mil.

    9. Accreditation features in Russia (1997): Institutional accreditation Evaluation of the quality of institutions and programs; Establishment of HEI status (kind of the institution: university, academy, institute); Right to award State-recognized diplomas

    10. Criteria for accreditation and benchmarks for determining HEIs status Content of curricula (mission, process) Quality of education (students outcomes, employment) Information resources (libraries, computers, soft-ware, internet) Educational equipment Students guidance (tuition, infrastructure) Educational programs: number and diversity Post-graduate programs: number and diversity Research achievements: financing and outcomes Publications Qualification of teaching staff: number of Ph.D. degree staff and D.Sc. Degree staff

    11. Steps of Accreditation Ex- ante - Licensing); Collection of the Database of all HEIs (annual); Ex- post - Accreditation (after 5 years): Self-evaluation; External review; Final report (benchmarking); Accreditation decision; Publication of results

    12. Bodies and organizations taking part in institutional accreditation: Federal Service of Supervision in HESc Accreditation Board National Accreditation Agency Attestation Center Gild of Experts Associations of Academics HEIs’ associations Regional rectors’ Councils

    13. Accreditation Board

    15. National Accreditation Agency (1995)

    18. NAA’s mission To promote the quality culture in Education and quality assurance in Higher Education, through technical, methodological, informational and scientific support of all evaluation procedures, and decision making

    19. NAA’s activity develops materials and recommendations for conducting self-evaluation and external review; trains experts for external evaluation teams; advises heads of Institutions on issues of QA; determines accreditation criteria and standards on the basis of information annually collected from the HEIs; keeps the database of experts; prepares final reports on the basis of self evaluation, external review, accreditation criteria and benchmarking for the Accreditation Board on application for accreditation and the HEIs status; publishes accreditation results; conducts research into the development of quality assurance of Higher Education in Russia

    20. 4 steps-model in NAA’s activity Creation of methods and criteria based on statistical data independent from the Government and HEIs Methodological support of the HEIs self-evaluations (self-evaluation report format, internet-assessment and internet-feedback technologies, manuals and training courses) Methodological support of external panels (evaluation report format, training courses for experts, data base of experts and a special site) Publication of results (final reports, the Register of accredited HEIs, web-site, journal) and system-wide analyses

    21. Internet Technologies in Quality Assurance

    22. Internet-exam participation (V stage) (April – June 2007)

    23. Collection of students’ feedback

    26. Publication of results Final reports Register of Accredited HE Institutions (in hard and soft copy) Manuals, handbooks, software web-site: www.nica.ru Journal “Accreditation in Education”

    27. Journal “Accreditation in Education”

    28. International Cooperation on Quality Assurance International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE, 1991) - full member European Association for Quality Assurance (ENQA, 2000) – candidate of member Network of Central and Eastern European Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (CEENET, 2001) – full member Asia-Pacific Quality Network (APQN, 2005) – full member Eurasian Quality Assurance Network (EAQAN, 2004) – full member

    29. Stocktaking Report 2007 National implementation of Standards and Guidelines for QA in the EHEA (ESG) Stage of development of external quality assurance system Level of student participation Level of international participation

    30. tel.: +78362638052 e-mail: lina@nica.ru http: www.nica.ru Thank you for your attention!

More Related