DIUS & PICQA - Tempus
DIUS & PICQA - Tempus
DIUS & PICQA - Tempus
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Ruben Topchyan<br />
ANQA Director<br />
<strong>DIUS</strong> & <strong>PICQA</strong>
outline<br />
• <strong>DIUS</strong><br />
• <strong>PICQA</strong><br />
• <strong>Tempus</strong> impact on the higher education system:<br />
quality assurance perspective<br />
• Challenges<br />
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<strong>DIUS</strong>: Development and integration of<br />
university self-assessment mechanisms<br />
Objectives:<br />
To develop a university self-assessment system with the aim to establish a<br />
culture that values quality in service provisions<br />
• Develop a university self-assessment system at the target universities<br />
• Train the staff responsible for effective university self-assessment<br />
processes<br />
• Establish a necessary infrastructure for effective university self-<br />
assessment<br />
• Promote student involvement in university self-assessment processes<br />
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<strong>DIUS</strong>: EU partners<br />
• Koblenz-Landau University<br />
• ASIIN – German Accreditation Agency specialized in<br />
Accrediting Degree Programmes in Engineering, Informatics,<br />
the Natural Sciences<br />
• Wrocław<br />
University of Technology<br />
• Université du Maine<br />
• Link Campus University of Malta<br />
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<strong>DIUS</strong>: PC Institutions<br />
• National Center for Professional Education Quality<br />
Assurance, Armenia<br />
• Yerevan State University<br />
• State Engineering University of Armenia<br />
• Yerevan State Medical University<br />
• Gyumri State Pedagogic University<br />
• Vanadzor Branch of State Engineering University<br />
• Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts<br />
• Ministry of Education and Science<br />
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<strong>PICQA</strong>: PROMOTING INTERNATIONALIZATION AND<br />
COMPARABILITY OF QUALITY ASSURANCE<br />
• Objectives<br />
• Enhance the quality of higher education in Armenia and<br />
Georgia<br />
• Promote convergence with EU developments<br />
• Thematic issues<br />
• Preparing and promoting two national systems for<br />
external quality assurance in higher education<br />
• Preparing HEIs for quality management<br />
• Establishment of a Network for quality assurance experts<br />
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<strong>PICQA</strong>: EU Partners<br />
• German Accreditation Agency specialized in Accrediting<br />
Degree Programmes in Engineering, Informatics, the<br />
Natural Sciences – (ASIIN)<br />
• Quality Assurance of Netherlands Universities- (QANU)<br />
• Center International D’études Pédagogiques – (CIEP)<br />
• Rotterdam University<br />
• University of Koblenz-Landau<br />
• University of Alicante<br />
• Technische Universität München<br />
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<strong>PICQA</strong>: Armenian PC Institutions<br />
• National Center for Professional Education Quality<br />
Assurance, Armenia<br />
• State Engineering University of Armenia<br />
• Yerevan State Medical University<br />
• Gyumri State Pedagogic University<br />
• Vanadzor Branch of State Engineering University<br />
• Ministry of Education and Science<br />
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<strong>PICQA</strong>: Georgian PC<br />
Institutions<br />
• National Center for Professional Education Quality<br />
Enhancement<br />
• Illia State University<br />
• Kutaisi State University<br />
• Batumi State University<br />
• Ministry of Education and Science<br />
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WHERE WE ARE NOW<br />
• <strong>PICQA</strong><br />
• Gaining common understanding on quality and quality<br />
assurance<br />
• Revision of quality assurance criteria and standards<br />
• <strong>DIUS</strong><br />
• Needs assessment evaluation<br />
• Identification of processes to be quality assured<br />
• Preparation for capacity building phase<br />
• Development of self-assessment mechanisms.<br />
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<strong>Tempus</strong> impact on the higher education system:<br />
quality assurance perspective<br />
BEFORE<br />
Passive partnership at international<br />
level<br />
Lack of QA area<br />
Lack of independent QA body<br />
Lack of capacity for quality<br />
assurance<br />
Lack of internal quality assurance<br />
culture<br />
Outdated approaches to<br />
accreditation (MoES)<br />
Lack of understanding of national<br />
peculiarities for quality assurance<br />
Lack of experts in QA<br />
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PRESENT<br />
Proactive participation and contribution to the QA<br />
developments at international level<br />
Establishment of QA area - QA standards, policies<br />
and procedures comparable with European one<br />
Establishment of independent QA agency - ANQA<br />
Capacity building through, self-analysis, pilots and<br />
international expertise<br />
Capacity building of IQA officers, establishment of<br />
IQA independent units, promotion of QA culture<br />
establishment<br />
ESG aligned approach to QA and accreditation<br />
Development of a QA system that best fits the<br />
national peculiarities and is aligned at regional level<br />
(Georgia partnership)<br />
Expert pool formation in the Caucasian region,<br />
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challenges<br />
• Common understanding on<br />
• quality and quality assurance<br />
• the role and functions of internal QA<br />
• underlying philosophy and mechanisms of QA in line with the ESG<br />
standards.<br />
• Dire need to<br />
• train the top-management on the issues of quality assurance to<br />
promote their commitment to the process<br />
• build on the capacity of the “right” staff to develop and implement<br />
internal quality assurance.<br />
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THANK YOU<br />
Ruben.topchyan@anqa.am<br />
www.anqa.am<br />
www.picqa.org<br />
www.dius.org<br />
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