scholarly journals Quality Education and the Marketplace: An Exploration of Neoliberalism and its Impact on Higher Education

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mandy Frake
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Market Place ◽  
Higher Education Quality ◽  
Open Discussion ◽  
Product Costs ◽  
The Impact

This paper is an in attempt to open discussion about the impact of globalization and theories of neoliberalism on higher education. More specifically, viewing higher education institutions as a market place, where the more a product costs, the greater supply and quality of the product should be received; the quality of education received by university students should also reflect this. Considering the conflict between teaching and research in higher education, quality of education becomes questionable. This paper explores issues of neoliberalism resulting in a greater demand for the completion of research in higher education institutions. Furthermore, the imperialism of higher education leading towards the demand for more research, the teaching versus research nexus within universities, and discussion of how these theories impact international students will be examined throughout this paper

scholarly journals HIGHER EDUCATION, QUALITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION, EXPERT SUPPORT AND ITS ASSURANCE: THE CANONIZATION OF CONCEPTS (THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL DISCOURSE)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Batechko
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Quality ◽  
Expert Support

The article highlights the peculiarities of the justification of the concept of “quality of education” in modern scientific discourse. At the same time, the investigated phenomenon is presented in the interpretation of the systemic and synergistic approaches. It is noted that the synergy of systematic and synergistic approaches can serve as a theoretical and methodological justification for the quality of education. In the context of systemic and synergetic approaches, modern realities of introducing the basic principles of the quality of education and its expert support in the national higher school are analysed. It has been proved that taking into account the best European principles for ensuring the quality of education and own vision of the solution of the problem will allow accelerating the processes of reforming the education sector in Ukraine.

scholarly journals The system of maintaining the quality of education through public regulation of activity of higher education institutions

2019 ◽  
pp. 43-53
Author(s):  
Nazariy N. Popadynets ◽  
Yuliya V. Zhuravel ◽  
Olena V. Panukhnyk
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
General Scheme ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
The Impact

Abstract. The purpose of the research is to determine government measures to form a mechanism toensure the formation of the quality of education in higher education institutions. Methods. In the course ofthe research, general scientific methods and approaches, a systematic approach, general logical researchmethods (analysis, synthesis, generalization, comparison) were used. Results. The article discusses key studies of the development of education in the country; in particular, attention paid to the processes of stateregulation of the activities of higher education institutions. On the basis of theoretical and methodologicalanalysis, a general scheme of the mechanism of state regulation of higher education is proposed, which consists of subject-objective, target, instrumental and information-analytical components. It was determined thatthe stimulation of educational institutions to continuously improve the quality and availability of educationalservices in accordance with the future needs of the labor market and the economy, the production of newservices occurs through partial regulation of these processes by the state. It has been proved that comprehensive legal, organizational, resource, information support for the development of the economy, employmentand social infrastructure capable of realizing the rights of education and development of the population, aswell as meeting the needs of various industries in qualified personnel, stimulating the demographic reproduction of the population directly depends on the quality of education in country, which is the basis for theformation of professional skills of each specialist. Practical meaning. Based on the analysis of the scientificworks of domestic scientists, as well as the practice of one of the universities, a system of indicators and keymeasures of the external system for ensuring the quality of education have been determined. Most educationalinstitutions in the country can use it by implementing in their practice those indicators to which this or thatinstitution responds. Prospects for further research. The results obtained determine the need for further assessment of the impact of other indicators for the implementation of a comprehensive assessment of theinternal and external system of education quality, which will help unify those indicators that will be mosteffective for a particular educational institution.

scholarly journals QUALITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN POLAND IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF EDUCATION POLICY

2020 ◽  
pp. 12-16
Author(s):  
O. Derkach
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Higher Education Management ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Financing Higher Education ◽  
Polish Higher Education ◽  
The Impact

The systematic changes in higher education institutions in Poland over the past two decades are analyzed. The classical idea of spontaneous social development and the hypothesis of interaction between formal and informal institutions, developed on the basis of a new institutional educational policy, was adopted as a methodological basis for analyzing and evaluating the transformation of Polish higher education. Transformations in Polish higher education are part of a more general shift in the role of universities - changes that can limit the independence of research and make it an instrument of dominant social, political and economic forces. The article states that the process of improving the quality of education cannot be detached from the system of financing education. The quality of education depends on the funding system not only because it is a source of resources, but also because it creates incentives for both students and teachers. The problems in the field of financing higher education in Poland are special because the rapid quantitative development of higher education occurred during a period of deep political transformation in Poland. The activities of the State Accreditation Commission of Poland are analyzed, its main competences are highlighted. The Polish Accreditation Commission (Polska Komisja Akredytacyjna) is an independent collegiate body of higher education management aimed at improving the quality of education. It is formed by the Minister of Science and Higher Education from among the candidates proposed by the Council of the Conference of Rectors of Higher Education Institutions of Poland, the Conference of Rectors of Polish Professional Educational Institutions of Poland, the Parliament of Students of the Republic of Poland, the Senates of universities and national scientific societies and the organization of employers. The powers of the Commission include providing the Minister of Science and Higher Education with opinions, feedback and conclusions regarding the establishment of the HEI or its organizational unit, permits to study studies in a particular direction at one or another level of education; program and institutional assessment, including pedagogical education. The impact of financing higher education institutions to ensure the quality of higher education is partly considered in the article.

scholarly journals Quality Of Education – A Guarantee Of Institutional Competitiveness

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 592-599
Author(s):  
Mariana Iatagan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Management ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Education Environment ◽  
Higher Education Quality ◽  
Education And Development ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Starting from the three challenges in the field of the higher education: relevant character, quality and international cooperation (…), this work represents an analysis of the impact of quality culture on the increasing of Romanian universities competitiveness on the European market of education. Analyzing the literature in the branch, we find out that the main changes recorded at the level of the tertiary education are the diversification and the consistent development of education at a higher level, on the ground of the intensified difficulties as far as it regards insuring resources and an increased demand of responsibility. We are also witnesses, in present, of the development of a “consumption” view over the universities and passing from a higher education for elites, to a mass one, where the performance seems often to be uncertain. As far as it concerns as suring the quality in the higher education environment, it can be noticed that its implementation is made almost in a mechanical way, on the ground of a quality management that is not enough developed and a weak involvement of direct beneficiaries in the project of the quality system. In this regard, we recommend developping of a system of total quality management at university level, beginning from the student’s needs, identifying some new performance items in education and development of some effective instruments of ensuring higher education quality.

scholarly journals ОНЛАЙН ОПИТУВАННЯ СТУДЕНТІВ У СИСТЕМІ ЗАБЕЗПЕЧЕННЯ ЯКОСТІ ВИЩОЇ ОСВІТИ

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (6) ◽  
pp. 235
Author(s):  
Volodymyr M. Moroz ◽  
Volodymyr P. Sadkovyi ◽  
Volodymyr M. Babayev ◽  
Svitlana A. Moroz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Online Surveys ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Quality

Based on the results of the analysis of world experience on the participation of higher education graduates in assessing the quality of educational activities of higher education institutions and the quality of higher education in general, the possibility of including students in expert groups for monitoring the quality of higher education has been substantiated. There was considered the history of implementation the toolkit for surveying the students into the mechanisms of monitoring the higher education quality. Comparative analysis of the domestic experience on attracting the higher education graduates to the assessment of higher education quality with the relevant foreign experience has been conducted. The peculiarities of the organization and conducting of students surveys within the framework of the international consortium "Student experience in the research university" are determined. The authors have considered the prospects of use of the online survey toolkit for the quality control system in higher education, as well as the level of professional activity of universities. The requirements for a software product, that the expert in assessing the quality of higher education can use to ensure the effectiveness of online surveys of students and the guaranteed achievement of the goal of appropriate monitoring are given. The advantages and disadvantages of online surveys of students as a tool for monitoring the quality of higher education have been identified. The benefits of using the cloud service survey by the organizer for development of the questionnaire for students surveys and analysis of the received answers have been proved. In addition, the paper provides conclusions on the possibility of using the online survey of students in the system for quality assurance in higher education both at university and at the state level, as well as practical recommendations on the use of questionnaires for higher education applicants in the framework of mechanisms for monitoring its quality. The directions of further scientific researches concerning the development and using cloud technologies for assessing the level of quality assurance in higher education institutions, the quality of educational activities and higher education as a whole have been formulated.

System of Monitoring the Quality of Higher Education in Uk Universities: Experience for Ukraine

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 51-57
Author(s):  
Hanna Krasilnikova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Quality ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Internal Procedures

Abstract The article deals with the experience of the use of the system of internal monitoring of the quality of higher education in UK Universities. There has been analyzed the existing model of the system of higher education monitoring at the level of a higher education institution within the scope of the British higher education model, discovered by a famous American education philosopher P. Monroe. There has been characterized the new document “The UK Quality Code for Higher Education”, which regulates the internal procedures of providing and monitoring the quality of UK universities. There have been provided the data of the comparative analysis of the trends of the internal monitoring of the Higher education quality of some UK universities. The monitoring trends, inherent in all higher education institutions, are the reports of external examiners, feedback of the students, reports of the institutional checkups. Other internal monitoring trends depend on the status, mission of an academic institution and are related to the polling of employers, higher education institutions’ alumni, analysis of the reports of the experts of the new curricula evaluation boards, etc. There has been analyzed the cyclic model of higher education monitoring in UK universities.

ОКРЕМІ ПИТАННЯ ЗАБЕЗПЕЧЕННЯ ЯКОСТІ ВИЩОЇ ОСВІТИ В УКРАЇНІ НА СУЧАСНОМУ ЕТАПІ

2022 ◽  
pp. 8-17
Author(s):  
Юлія Андріївна Бондарчук ◽  
Тетяна Миколаївна Власюк ◽  
Наталія Валеріївна Фастовець
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Education System ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Weak Links ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Depth Analysis

The article seeks to discuss important implications of higher education quality in various society areas of – politics, management, pedagogy, economics, etc. Insights on international best practice convincingly demonstrate that assuring high quality of education and enhancing its further development are the key governance and public administration priorities in all developed countries. It is argued that the quality of life is greatly affected by the level and quality of education. Moreover, it is highlighted that Ukraine has built a robust institutional paradigm of the education system and its governing bodies which focuses on retaining and accumulating strong human capital and research potential. Among the shortcomings in the implementation of the education quality assurance process, the study has identified the following: weak links in the relationships between higher education institutions and business; immaturity of monetization system for university students in the context of their cooperation with private companies; lack of university involvement in promoting the creation of business incubators, science & technology parks, technocities, etc. Apart from that, the findings have revealed significant imbalances in the national economy that translate into the supply shortage in certain occupations and labor market surplus in other professionals, along with displaying another negative trends associated with the processes of skilled workforce migration from rural areas to more developed cities and regions, or the outflow of the working-age population abroad. In turn, labor migration challenges drastic demographic changes that according to statistics, negatively affect the number of higher education applicants. A special emphasis is placed that the national higher education system is facing serious competition from higher education institutions of economically developed neighbouring countries that offer educational services in prestigious high ranked universities, as well as create ample scholarship and grant opportunities to international students. Thus, from the tuition fee perspective, domestic HEIs are often far behind their European counterparts, too. The study presents an in-depth analysis of the range of various impact factors affecting the education quality, the most essential of them are reported to be the legal and regulatory framework for higher education; government policy for higher education management; higher education funding rates; labor market saturation; the effectiveness of quality management tools in rendering educational services, etc.

scholarly journals Academic Relationships and Resources: Assessing the Impact on Quality of Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-23
Author(s):  
M. Pragnashree ◽  
M. Vidyasagar ◽  
T. Narayan Reddy
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Andhra Pradesh ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Quality Of Education ◽  
Access To Resources ◽  
Empirical Examination ◽  
The Impact

The study is an empirical examination of how the academic relationship between Faculty and student, student’s access to resources affect the quality of education in higher education institutions across Andhra Pradesh, India. Data was collected among 400 students across Higher Education institutions in Andhra Pradesh using random sampling technique. Dimensions of SERVQUAL model (ParasurRaman, 1985), namely Responsiveness, Cooperation, Assurance, Empathy, Tangibles (Access to resources) were used in the questionnaire. Cross tabulation in SPSS and Pearson correlation were employed as analytical methods. The findings of the study suggest that the student faculty relationship have a significant impact on quality of education and academic resources are significant attributes that impact the student’s learning which results in better quality of education.

scholarly journals Monitoring of quality of higher education in Ukraine and Germany: comparative aspect

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-225
Author(s):  
Olga V. Chorna
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
University Rankings ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
World University Rankings ◽  
Higher Education Quality ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Functional Components

The article describes the peculiarities of the monitoring systems of higher education quality in Ukraine and Germany at the present stage, taking into account the national traditions, historical experience and mentality of the population, also enshrined at the legislative level. The impact of public administration in the field of education and independent public organizations (agencies) on the nature and quality of monitoring procedures should be evaluated, since the involvement of society in monitoring the quality of higher education should be an integral part of a full-fledged education system. Given the specifics of the step-by-step system for regional monitoring of the quality of higher education in Germany, the role of the Conference of Rectors of Higher Education Institutions in this issue was demonstrated. Recent years’ statistics are used to illustrate the polarity of Ukrainian and German universities positions in world rankings (for example, The Times Higher Education World University Rankings and World University Rankings). The results of a comparative analysis of the approaches to higher education quality assurance and monitoring in Germany and Ukraine, the activities of monitoring entities in the two countries at all levels, starting from the national level and ending with the level of the educational institution, are presented in a summary table. The table demonstrates also the conceptual and functional components of quality monitoring: the purpose of the monitoring, the objects of monitoring, the levels and entities, the public initiative, the priority of the monitoring levels, the dominant principles, the overall orientation and monitoring of the quality of higher education. The article outlines the prospects of using elements of the progressive international experience of organizing a monitoring system of higher education quality to reform the national higher school, which is a necessary step in the process of its entry into the European Higher Education Area.

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