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PROGRAMME ACCREDITATION

PROGRAMME ACCREDITATION. Assoc. Prof. Ivan OSTROVSKÝ, PhD. Tbilisi, Georgia. November 2005. HIGHER EDUCATION. PAST. NO challenges NO responsibility. HIGHER EDUCATION. PRESENT. CHALLENGES. RESPONSIBILITY. HIGHER EDUCATION. FUTURE. CHALLENGES. RESPONSIBILITY. HIGHER EDUCATION.

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PROGRAMME ACCREDITATION

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  1. PROGRAMME ACCREDITATION Assoc. Prof. Ivan OSTROVSKÝ, PhD Tbilisi, Georgia November 2005

  2. HIGHER EDUCATION • PAST NO challenges NO responsibility

  3. HIGHER EDUCATION • PRESENT CHALLENGES RESPONSIBILITY

  4. HIGHER EDUCATION • FUTURE CHALLENGES RESPONSIBILITY

  5. HIGHER EDUCATION EUROPEAN TRENDS • CHANGES • non-elite approach = massification, free access • higher education as a business • student as a „customer“ • competition for students • globalisation • less autonomy, more government • CHALLENGES • Quality Assurance !!! • Transparency and Accountability • Open European Higher Education Area

  6. QUALITY

  7. HIGHER EDUCATION EUROPEAN TRENDS • QUALITY, QUALITY ASSURANCE • Concept • quality as excellence • quality as „zero errors“ • quality as „fitness for purpose“ • quality as transformation • quality as threshold • quality as enhancement Many experts interpret the quality in higher education as ”fitness for purpose” even the technologies for measure and ensure it are of very wide range including thresholds, benchmarking, excellence and enhancement.

  8. HIGHER EDUCATION EUROPEAN TRENDS • MAIN PLAYERS/USERS position role development • owner • provider • autonomy • responsibility • University • funding • decision-making • Government • partner • sponsoring • decision-making • Public • user/customer

  9. HIGHER EDUCATION QUALITY ASSURANCE • CHARACTERISTIC STRUCTURE position • owner • provider • University • Government • partner • Quality Assurance Body • Public • user/customer

  10. PROGRAMME ACCREDITATION • POSITION • University • Government • owner • provider • political authority Programme Accreditation • Accreditation Commission • Public • user/customer • professional authority

  11. PROGRAMME ACCREDITATION • owner • provider • ROLE • University • Responsibility • Government • transparency • political authority • accountability Programme Accreditation • STATE guaranty • PROFESSIONAL guaranty • Accreditation Commission • Public • user/customer • professional authority

  12. PROGRAMME ACCREDITATION • MECHANISM LICENCE (accreditation) • University • owner • provider • Government DECISION (proposal) • political authority DIPLOMA (quality value) PROPOSAL (dossier) • STATE guaranty • Accreditation Commission • PROFESSIONAL guaranty • Public • advisory body • user/customer • professional body

  13. PROGRAMME ACCREDITATION • PRACTICE LICENCE (accreditation) • University CRITERIA • owner • provider • Government PROPOSAL (dossier) DECISION (proposal) • political authority Working Groups DIPLOMA (quality value) • Accreditation Commission • Public • advisory body • user/customer • professional body

  14. PROGRAMME ACCREDITATION • RESULTS • University • Government PROPOSAL (dossier) • political authority DECISION (proposal) Job Licence LICENCE (accreditation) ≥ 2000 Accredited study programmes DIPLOMA (quality value) • Accreditation Commission • professional body • OVERBURDENED! • STATE guaranty • Public • user/customer • PROFESSIONAL guaranty

  15. PROGRAMME ACCREDITATION • What lessons can be learn? • HEIs are able succesfully adapt to their particular situation in the country and the national environment; • QAS is a long term game (years) together with the development of a new institutional policy; • Strong demand for enough tools for the academic quality monitoring QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEM • help not punishment ! • simple, transparent, out of bureaucracy ! • dissemination of results and their changes ! • quality enhancement must be assured ! • avoid diversity - must be uniform!

  16. is there a vision?

  17. opportunities and constraints for HE

  18. not competing in the learning society...

  19. competing in the learning society...

  20. competing in the learning society...

  21. “If we acknowledge that universities represent sources of civil and moral teaching for preachers and country nobility to draw their strength from it and then spread it among people, great care should be paid to keeping these sources clean, neither muddied by godless politicians nor bewitched by bad ghosts.” Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan (1651)

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