scholarly journals Sustainable development in higher education: Managing efficiency and effectiveness – a case of Ukraine

2021 ◽  
Vol 307 ◽  
pp. 06006
Author(s):  
Serhii Levchenko
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Higher Education Reform ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Scientific Process ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Student Centeredness ◽  
Economic Zones

This article touches upon an issue of an impact of efficiency and effectiveness, which are the factors that ensuring sustainability of higher educational process in Ukraine. The article analyses the existing definitions of efficiency and effectiveness in the context of higher education, both those provided by the English dictionary, and in scholars’ terms. The author of this publication found that many of the authors’ definitions of effectiveness coincide in nature, on the basis of which the types of effectiveness were grouped. Also, the article identifies some areas of higher education reform, both Ukrainian and foreign experience. In addition, approaches to assessing the activities of free economic zones in the “TOP-200 Ukraine” and world rankings, in particular, uniRank, QS, NatureIndex, are analysed. The orientation of these ratings on the scientific process, without the orientation on student-centeredness, is revealed and the substantiation on the possibilities to improve both of them in Ukrainian higher education institutions (HEIs) with the orientation on student-centeredness is given, which helps to achieve Goal 4 of Sustainable Development.

Ku poprawie jakości systemu, czyli logika racjonalizacji i ekonomizacji w kształtowaniu polityki szkolnictwa wyższego w Polsce

2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-60
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Dziedziczak‑Foltyn
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Higher Education Reform ◽  
System Transformation ◽  
New Public

The dynamic development of higher education in Poland of the last quarter of a  century belongs to the most spectacular achievements of the system transformation. That development, however, is virtually limited to a quantitative progress which could be illustrated by the record high enrolment ratios (and the number of higher education institutions), accompanied by a striking scarcity of financial resources earmarked for this sector – several times lower than in the leading European countries. A qualitative progress that Poland could be proud of, however, did not follow. The economic and political change has led to a sudden marketization of higher education, stimulating the processes of competitiveness, unfortunately without policy makers’ paying adequate attention. At the same time, together with the increasing European integration, Poland developed modernization strategies in this sector. They focused on economic rationalization, which was dictated by European policies and global challenges.  Therefore, the changes in higher education took place under the banners of neoliberal reforms, and included such slogans as new public management and managerialism. One law after another has increasingly stressed that kind of logic in reforming higher education institutions. It seems that in the situation of permanent underfunding of the whole sector, that approach was meant to be a lifeline for Polish schools, practically absent from the global world of science and higher education. The goal of the paper is to present how the concept of economic improvement of higher education in Poland evolved as a whole, mainly in the higher education policy and legislative dimension, including the most significant consequences of the said improvement for the quality of the entire system. Keywords: higher education, reform of higher education, law on higher education, higher education policy, economization, rationalization.

scholarly journals INTERACTION OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS PARTIES AS GUARANTEE OF HIGH QUALITY OF EDUCATION

2018 ◽  
pp. 61-64
Author(s):  
A. Stebletskyi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Higher Education Reform ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Continuous Growth

Our country relies on system of education in its development. The laws of Ukraine “On Higher Education” (2014) and “On Education” (2017) were adopted. The philosophical aspect of topical trends in education is considered in life-long helping an individual to fulfil him/herself as a professional citizen and personality. It is obvious, that in such case, the access to education and educational services should increase. This fact exacerbates the issue of improving the quality of education. One of the directions of increasing the quality of education is to increase the quality of educational activities. An important reserve for the quality of educational activities is the constructive interaction of participants in the educational process. The article analyses the nature of interaction of the parties to the educational process in the context of their educational activities. The structure of optimal self-organization of the parties’ educational activities is determined. The problems in studying the quality of educational activities are stated. The conditions, factors and criteria determining the nature of the interaction of educational activity parties are described. The conditions of educational process development in the higher schools are determined by its nature: the educational process based on the research basis, the interaction between the parties, the practice-aimed educational process. The conditions of development of educational process parties’ interaction are determined by interdependence of processes being the basis of their educational activities self-organization. The important criteria for constructive nature of the parties’ interaction in the educational process include benevolence, openness, impartiality, aspiration for perfection, and activity. Higher education reform can not take place without the continuous growth of higher education quality. Higher education should become even more powerful source of development of our country.

scholarly journals Sustainable Higher Education Reform Quality Assessment Using SWOT Analysis with Integration of AHP and Entropy Models: A Case Study of Morocco

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 4312
Author(s):  
Asma Fahim ◽  
Qingmei Tan ◽  
Bushra Naz ◽  
Qurat ul Ain ◽  
Sibghat Ullah Bazai
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Education System ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Higher Education Reform ◽  
Entropy Method ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Reform Plan

Sustainable development goals (SDG) involve not only environmental issues but also economic, social, and cultural concerns. Higher education plays a key role in promoting sustainable development initiatives and in empowering people to change their thinking and to strive for a sustainable future. However, the main issue that needs to be presently resolved is how leaders, teachers, and students in higher education can achieve sustainable development in their system vision, mission and values, strategic plans, and organizational culture. Morocco is a country with a long history of higher education and has continuous reforms for sustainable development. In the process of responding to the wave of globalization, the Moroccan government has begun to formulate a higher education reform plan to maintain its competitiveness and achieve the SDG standards. Therefore, this study is focused on the quality of the higher education system through which the sustainability of higher education reform can be implemented. With this in mind, an organized approach that involved a questionnaire using the SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) decision-making model with integration of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and Entropy method was developed. The questionnaires were filled out by the experts, staff, and students of the higher education system (universities) to obtain the important key factors for the SWOT analysis. The AHP was used for the qualitative analysis of the weights of the SWOT factors, while the Entropy method was applied for the objective analysis of the number of different weight attributes. After integration of AHP with Entropy, the finalized variables were ranked; these results are more reliable and realistic to decision-makers. Finally, the SWOT matrix was established based on the questionnaire assessment and the AHP with Entropy weights to help implement the higher education reform policy and to monitor the quality of the current education system. The results also indicate that higher education reform must incorporate many changes, including effective budget planning, skilled experts, internationalization, improved and expanded infrastructure, reformed study curriculum, and latest training.

scholarly journals Achieving WIL placement and theoretical learning concurrently: An online strategy for Higher Education Institutions

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 113-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynnaire Sheridan ◽  
◽  
Belinda Gibbons ◽  
Oriana Price ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Higher Education Reform ◽  
Australian Government ◽  
Professional Networks ◽  
Graduate Employability ◽  
Study Programs ◽  
Online Strategy ◽  
Work Integrated Learning

The Australian Government requires Higher Education Institutions to demonstrate the work-readiness of graduates. Consequently, Work Integrated Learning (WIL) has been adopted to enhance the workplace skills and professional networks of students to improve graduate employability. While WIL can take many forms, experiences located in workplaces (placements, internships) have been popular. The introduction of the Australian Government’s Fair Work Act 2009 required that placements be tightly embedded within curriculum thereby presenting the challenge of how to enable WIL via placements and theoretical learning in already compact study programs. As a response, we present the pragmatic use of online theoretical instruction and online WIL assessment within an undergraduate core Capstone business subject, as an enabler of the WIL placement. We examine learner perspectives on, and grade outcomes from, undertaking online theoretical instruction concurrent with WIL placements to discuss the key WIL and online learning design implications for this cohort of learners. Our findings are increasingly pertinent given the 2017 Australian Government Higher Education Reform package incentivising the expansion of WIL into all degrees.

scholarly journals Adapting the Tuning Programme Profiles to the Needs of Russian Higher Education

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yevgeniya V. Karavayeva ◽  
Yelena N. Kovtun
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Educational Programme ◽  
Higher Education Reform ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Russian Higher Education ◽  
Educational Programmes ◽  
State Educational ◽  
New Generation

This article considers how TUNING-compatible programme profiles could be developed in the Russian Federation in the context of: on-going reform of the higher education; introduction of the new generation of Federal State Educational Standards (FSES); development of the new professional standards; implementation of a system of public accreditation of educational programmes; and a complex system of educational quality assessment. It also analyses the results of monitoring of the effectiveness of FSES implementation in the system of Russian higher education by the Association of the Classical Universities of Russia (ACUR) that identified a number of problems in the area of programme design and implementation related to drawbacks within the current FSES. Based on the experience gained during the implementation of the TUNING RUSSIA Project (2010-2013), this article demonstrates the usefulness of the TUNING basic principles and approaches and suggests the ways TUNING profile development methodology might be successfully adapted and applied for designing educational programmes in the course of the Russian higher education reform. Creating TUNING-model degree profiles may be crucial to aid the Russian higher education institutions in the development of the new educational programs. Brief but all-encompassing formulation of the aims and outcomes and specific characteristics of an educational programme, listing competences and learning outcomes could permit higher education institutions to move from trying to comply with standards and requirements, which are sent from above but are foreign to the institutions themselves, to adopting the principle of transparency and designing better and more competitive degrees.<br /><br />

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF THE EXPERIENCE OF THE COUNTRIES OF EASTERN ASIA IN PREPARATION OF FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS BY THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

2019 ◽  
pp. 40-47
Author(s):  
Nastas Dariya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Effective Interaction ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Higher Education Reform ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Digital Competence ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers

Digital and cloud-oriented technologies gained extremely powerful traction, Big Data and Web technologies are widely used, artificial intelligence is becoming popular as well as the Internet of things, smartphones and other devices have become an integral part of living in civilized society. Prompt digitalization predetermined the situation when learning is conducted spontaneously and informally. In today's realities educational process has to transform quickly and support gaining digital competence by all the participants. It is essential to follow the rules of secure and effective interaction with digital content, form media culture and media information literacy. To overcome challenges that appear in digital era it is necessary to provide high quality preparation of future teachers, that is why our aim was to research and analyze peculiarities of educational process of higher educational institutions of countries which have got significant gains in the field of creation and dissemination of the most modern IT technologies. The article analyzes the educational process of preparation of future elementary school teachers in East Asian countries, namely: South Korea, Japan, China (describes the levels of preparation in the higher education institution (HEI), specifies the peculiarities of the educational program and lists the educational goals that a future elementary teacher should achieve). It provides information on a study initiated and conducted by theThe Republic of Korean Research Foundation and outlines basic ideas for SMART education in understanding South Korean counterparts. Found out how future primary school teachers inThe Republic of Korea are trained in six core subjects with a combination of digital literacy to be taught in junior high. The vector of Japan's higher education reform is presented, which aims at developing conceptually new approaches to the organization of the educational space with a combination of classical pedagogy and IT, as well as information on the certification features of future and current teachers. The article focuses on educational innovations (interaction between IT and education), outlined by President Xi Jinping. The list of qualities that a Chinese teacher should possess in the 21st century is given.

Investing in higher education marketing

2019 ◽  
pp. 125-134
Author(s):  
Elena Koval ◽  
Ksenia Ilyina ◽  
Anatasia Fefelova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Higher Education Reform ◽  
The State ◽  
Investment Model ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Higher Education Marketing ◽  
Education Marketing

The aim of the article is to research the state and prospects of expanding investments in the marketing of higher education and adapting to the fluctuations in the educational services market. The research methodology is based on the methods of scientific abstraction in determining the components of the market, comparative analysis of the world experience and domestic sources of the higher education institutions financing, analysis of the expenditures structure on education in the state budget of the country, monographic method of the studing the state and improving of the competitiveness in domestic institutions of higher education, statistics information. The scientific novelty of the conducted research is that the state of financing of higher education institutions is scientifically substantiated, alternative instruments of financing of investments in marketing of educational services are analyzed, directions of increase in competitiveness of market participants are outlined. Conclusions.Among other important areas of the European Union’s investment model are research, innovation and digitization in research marketing projects, as well as the financing of projects in the fields of skills, education, training and social innovation. Higher education reform in Ukraine aims to integrate into the European higher education area and the research area on the basis of a competitive national higher education system. Expanding the international activity of domestic higher education institutions is aimed at introducing modern global trends ofthe investment in higher education marketing.

Training of the university-educated personnel for the regional economy: expert opinion of the executives of Kemerovo Region universities

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-198
Author(s):  
Елена Морозова ◽  
Elena Morozova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Expert Opinion ◽  
Regional Economy ◽  
Higher Education Reform ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Expert Survey ◽  
The University

The article presents the analysis of the data obtained during the expert survey of Kemerovo Region universities’ executives on training of the university-educated personnel for the regional economy. The experts estimated the overall situation in higher education in Russia, Kuzbass and in particular universities, as well as the consequences of the higher education reform rather low. But the quality of training and its compliance with the requirements of employers are characterized by them mainly positively. The universities’ top management supports more active cooperation with companies and organizations in order to improve the educational process. The experts shared their experience in planning the structure of training of students, made an attempt to predict the needs of the regional economy in the personnel and gave suggestions for improving the system of higher education in the region.

scholarly journals ENSURING THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION IN THE MODERN INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION: CURRENT IDEAS

2020 ◽  
pp. 31-34
Author(s):  
A. Marushkevych
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Economic Zones

The article considers current ideas for ensuring the quality of education in higher education institutions of Ukraine. Emphasis is placed on its essential characteristics: dynamism, internationality, student-centeredness and the importance for the modern teacher of regular professional development, internships in European and world higher education institutions to master innovative technologies and methods of teaching students. The importance of mutual coordination of curricula in domestic and foreign free economic zones in order to ensure the academic mobility of students has been explained. It is noted about the expansion of access to education in free economic zones not only for citizens of Ukraine, but also for representatives of other countries, their equality in terms of admission. The essence of the concepts "quality of educational activity", "quality of higher education", "academic community", "university community", "anti-corruption program" and the importance of research aspect of free economic activity, the importance of forming students' critical thinking skills are substantiated. The importance of interaction between teachers and students in the learning process, conducting interactive discussions, Internet forums, e-mail correspondence, contact in "chats", the use of tools for the development of soft skills (training on issues related to teamwork, time management, leadership, personal development, presentations, etc.). Attention is focused on the introduction of innovations in the educational process, taking into account the attitude of the whole team of research and teaching staff, the presence in the HEI equipped at the modern level of the auditorium, the necessary devices, technical tools. The importance of having a personal cabinet for a modern teacher and student is briefly covered. Emphasis is placed on the importance of assessing the quality of teachers' educational activities. The necessity of functioning of the anti-corruption program in each free economic zone has been pointed out.

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