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.

scholarly journals Analysis of students' views about the quality of higher education (based on the survey results)

2021 ◽  
pp. 70-86
Author(s):  
Olena Orzhel ◽  
Kateryna Tryma
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Quality Enhancement ◽  
Positive Finding ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
Higher Education Quality ◽  
Education Quality Assurance

The article is dedicated to the issue of student involvement in higher education quality assurance and evaluation – a vital and highly relevant issue in today’s higher education of Ukraine. Changes instigated by the Law of Ukraine «On Higher Education» of 2014, foresee an active role of students in the formation and evaluation of higher education quality as 1) final beneficiaries, 2) interviewees and participants in accreditation of study programmes, 3) external evaluation experts during study programmes accreditation, as ruled by current legislation. Taking into account the significance of students’ role in quality assurance, it is necessary to find out: how university students interpret quality of higher education and higher education quality assurance; how students perceive their role in the formation and enhancement of higher education quality; to what extend they are ready and committed to influence and improve the quality of higher education. Accordingly, the aim of this article is to investigate students’ opinion on the quality of Ukraine’s higher education. To this end, students’ survey was conducted with the focus on the following: what is quality and quality assurance in students’ opinion; how respondents assess the quality of education in their HEI and in Ukraine in general; whether students can influence the quality of study programmes and quality of higher education; what hinders improvement of study programmes and enhancement of quality of higher education. The survey was conducted in May – October 2020; the respondents were 115 students of five Ukrainian universities (years three and four of bachelor programmes and master students) who volunteered to take part in the survey. The research resulted in the following conclusions:  1) There is no integral, holistic understanding of higher education quality among student community. Representatives of different HEIs interpret higher education quality differently, though in total 60% of respondents interpret quality as « new, relevant information and knowledge». 2) On the whole, respondents value the quality of higher education rather low: only 25% of students regard it as high. At the same time, most of surveyed students rate the quality of their study programme higher, than the quality of higher education in their university or the quality of educational services in Ukraine in general. 3) Students of different HEIs are rather diverse in their interpretation of quality assurance of higher education and choice of different means for quality enhancement. On the whole, respondents give preference to those tools that anticipate active students’ participation in quality assurance, like asking the teacher to change the manner of teaching, or leaving a complaint with student self-government, discussing the quality of teaching in a focus group, or filling in an evaluation questionnaire. 4) Students who participated in the survey demonstrated critical thinking and fair judgement of their negative impact on the quality of higher education by stating that low student motivation is the most significant factor that obstructs quality enhancement. Other factors cited by respondents include low teacher motivation, underdeveloped infrastructure at HEIs, teacher workload. 5) The positive finding of the survey is that the majority of students are confident in their capability to influence the quality of higher education in their HEI and only 21% responded they are deprived of the possibility improve higher education quality.

scholarly journals TRENDS OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF SPECIALISTS IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES: QUALITY ASSURANCE (IQA) SYSTEM IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Osvitolohiya ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 111-116
Author(s):  
Svetlana Zaskaleta
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
Higher Education Quality

The article analyzes the problem of ensuring the quality of higher education. Ukraine aims to be in the European trend towards modernization of higher education. Ensuring the quality of higher education is much planned and at the same time the availability of the necessary resources (academic and administrative staff, students, academic and administrative leaders; financial, material, informational, scientific, educational resources etc.); organization of educational process that most adequately reflect modern trends in the development of national and world economy and education; the control of educational activities at the higher education sector and the quality of training of specialists at all stages of training and at all levels: the higher education institution, for higher education in different national and international (European) level. Quality assurance requires a lot of preparatory work. This is an extended process that requires continuous improvement of the achieved performance. The general tendency of professional training of specialists in the countries of the European space is determined. It is to ensure the quality of higher education. The quality assurance of higher education is governed by the legal framework of the countries (the Law on Higher Education and related by-laws). Higher education quality assurance tasks are carried out by the Agency for the Supervision and Quality Assurance of Higher Education, in accordance with EU legislation and recommendations in the field of higher education quality. It is noted that the mechanisms of quality assurance of higher education are constantly being improved, which is the key to the development of higher education systems in the countries of the European area. Quality assurance is a priority of the Bologna Process, but its mechanisms are not seen as a goal. Their ultimate goal is to improve the quality of teaching and research. The quality assurance bodies support the institutions in their further development and, equally, play a key role as defenders of the public interest. Key components of the quality assurance system of higher education is to ensure the quality of education at the Universities, processes of quality assurance in education teaching and learning; approval monitoring and periodic review of programs for assessing the quality of teaching staff, educational resources and support for students of information systems

scholarly journals THE FRENCH MODEL FOR ASSESSING THE QUALITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION: CURRENT TRENDS

2020 ◽  
pp. 93-98
Author(s):  
Nina Batechko ◽  
Alla Durdas
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
French Experience ◽  
Higher Education Quality ◽  
Europe Today ◽  
French Education System ◽  
French Model

The article deals with the current state of development of higher education in the French Republic. The higher educa-tion quality in France in the light of the European tendencies has been highlighted; the French model for assessing the quality of higher education has been analysed. The concept of higher education quality has been stated; the structure of France’s higher education has been provided. The effectiveness, innovation and productivity which are expected from higher education in Europe today, have been emphasized. The significance of the continuing assessment in the French education system has been stressed. The historical background for the development of the French model for assessing the quality of higher education has been considered. The bodies participating in evaluating higher education in France have been analysed, and their roles and tasks have been stated. The possibility of the use of the positive French experience in higher education quality evaluation in Ukraine has been stated.

scholarly journals Development of the educational programmes: normative legal and methodical support

2018 ◽  
pp. 21-33
Author(s):  
Olena Khrutska
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
European Higher Education Area ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Educational Programmes ◽  
Higher Education Quality ◽  
European Higher Education

Ukrainian higher education is in the process of reforming. In particular, there is a transition from a traditional discipline-based approach to competency, introducing a student-centred approach in teaching and learning, requiring a rethinking of approaches to developing educational programmes and ensuring higher education quality of at this stage. The Paris Communiqué states that quality assurance in accordance with the «Standards and Recommendations for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area ESG-2015» is one of the three key commitments crucial for strengthening and maintaining quality and cooperation in the middle of the EHEA. Therefore, ensuring the quality of higher education, in particular the quality of educational programmes, is relevant both to the Ukrainian and European higher education spheres. The article analyses the existing normative, legal and methodological bases on the issue of developing educational programmes in Ukraine. The requirements of the Law of Ukraine «On Higher Education» regarding the development of new educational programmes are researched. The requirements of «Licensing conditions for conducting educational activities» regarding the composition of the project (working) group and its head (program guarantor) are investigated. «Methodological recommendations for the development of educational programmes», «Methodical recommendations for the development of higher education standards», letters from the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine with explanations of questions regarding the development of educational programmes are considered. The correspondences and contradictions between these documents and «Standards and Recommendations on Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area ESG-2015» are analysed. The normative requirements and methodical recommendations for implementation of successive stages of the process of development of new educational programmes are investigated. There is a discrepancy between terminology and aspects that the legal and methodological support is imperfect, in particular requirements regarding the composition of the working group, the rights and obligations of guarantors, and the involvement of stakeholders in the process of developing educational programmes.It is suggested to develop a normative background and methodological recommendations for covering the issue of responsibility of the head of the project group (the guarantor of the educational program), as well as to provide at the normative and methodological levels the possibility of involving not only scientific and pedagogical workers but also other stakeholders in the development of educational programmes.

scholarly journals Directions for improving the quality of education in Belarusian universities (sociological analysis)

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-50
Author(s):  
Yury Kalesnik ◽  
Vadzim Kleiman ◽  
Valentina Vasicheva
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Academic Development ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Educational Technologies ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Quality ◽  
Teachers And Students

AbstractEducational institutions all over the world realize the importance of promoting international cooperation. In order to stay competitive in such fields like education, research, innovations it is no longer enough to count on only internal resources. Exchange of experience, knowledge sharing, benchmarking provide possibilities for universities to constantly remain updated on modern know-hows.New opportunities for improving the quality of higher education in Belarus are provided by different international programs and projects. Among them there is the project of the EU Program ERASMUS + CBHE “University Teaching and Learning Enhancement” / UniTeLE, which has been implemented since 2019. The project coordinator is Linnaeus University (Sweden).In the framework of the ERASMUS + UniTeLE project, a consortium of Belarusian universities has conducted a higher education quality research. The purpose of this research is to identify areas for improving the quality of higher education in Belarus.The research was carried out on the basis of a sociological survey of a representative sampling of teachers, staff and students of six Belarusian universities (more than 350 respondents from Minsk, Gomel, Brest, Gorki, Polotsk, Grodno were interviewed). Both SWOT analysis of higher education quality in Belarus and focus group of possible improvement were performed. The discussion was attended by work groups of 25 leaders, teachers and students from each of the Belarusian universities of the project consortium.The following fundamental research results should be noted. Among the strengths of Belarusian universities are: specialization in the regions, the system of additional adult education, and practical experience of teachers (2/3 of respondents). 58% of respondents are confident in the advantages of innovative educational technologies used by teachers, 47% indicated a low intensity of innovation implementation. Respondents noted the high level of Hard Skills competencies of the teaching staff and insufficiently of Soft Skills competencies for both teachers and students. The respondents identified outdated educational technologies and methods and the content of curricula as the fundamental weakness of Belarusian education.The following areas of quality improvement have been identified as the most important for Belarusian universities: -the development of Soft Skills competencies of both teachers and students to provide their close interaction;-the development of Soft Skills competencies among students to provide their close interaction with employers (the development of job search skills, entrepreneurial activity);-the introduction of active teaching and learning methods, the development of interactive educational technologies;-the inсlusion of students in the process of education quality internal assessment;-systematic assessment of teachers, including the process of applying for a job, teacher academic development planning (HR management).For the practical improvement in the suggested areas, it is advisable to create Life Long Learning Centres and Centres of Academic Development of teachers in Belarusian universities, as well as a student-oriented quality assessment system. To improve the quality and competitiveness of Belarusian education, it is also advisable to develop international cooperation and networking among universities. The positive experience of such projects as TEMPUS ECOTESY, ERASMUS + UniTeLE, ERASMUS + BELL and others, can contribute to such cooperation and interaction.

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 Exploration into Improving Teaching Quality of Higher Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Xiaotian Sun ◽  
Yueqian Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Management ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Joint Development ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Higher Education Quality ◽  
Teachers And Students

<p>With the further advancement of higher education connotation, increasing problems have arisen in the previous quality management methods of higher education, which is unable to meet the development needs of education in new age. To solve these problems, the development model of higher education must transform from previous quality management to quality governance. Therefore, the innovative practice of higher education quality governance needs to focus on directive development idea at the core of teacher-student oriented development. In this way, the joint development system of teachers and students should be improved, thus further enhancing teaching quality of higher education. </p>

scholarly journals NGO impact on ensuring the quality of higher education in departmental HEIs

1970 ◽  
pp. 190-206
Author(s):  
Kateryna Tryma ◽  
Natalia Salnikova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Structural Units ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Quality ◽  
The University ◽  
Conceptual Foundations

The process of higher education quality assurance is a strategic priority for the development of higher education in Ukraine. To meet the EHEA standards in the sphere of higher education for the Ukrainian HEIS to cooperate with European ones; the conceptual foundations of the reform of higher education, which are designed to provide quality educational services, are to be considered. Modern higher education policy in the European Higher Education Area to ensure the quality of higher education involves the involvement of various stakeholders in the functioning of higher education, including NGOs and associations, employers, local communities, and active citizens. Departmental HEIs began to form an internal system of quality assurance in higher education in 2016. At this stage, the relevant provisions have been developed, which regulate the distribution of powers to ensure the quality of education between different services and departments of the university. Based on the analysed documents, it was concluded that some structural units for quality assurance in higher education in departmental HEIs have not yet been formed, and the functions of compliance with quality standards are assigned as additional to existing structural units. Based on the analysis of news from the websites of departmental HEIs of Ukraine, it was concluded that departmental HEIs cooperate with international and Ukrainian non-governmental organisations whose activities are related to law enforcement. The priority of cooperation between HEIs and non-governmental organisations, which is publicly available on the websites of universities, is joint educational activities, training, conferences and round tables, professional development of employees. There are no documents outlining the influence of non-governmental organisations on ensuring the quality of educational services and information on the practical dimension of cooperation in ensuring the quality of educational services on the websites. The conclusion is made about the need to develop mechanisms for the cooperation of departmental HEIs of Ukraine with non-governmental organisations and the algorithm of the promulgation of this process.

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