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STATE OF THE ART – QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEM IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN CROATIA

Learn about the current state of the quality assurance system in higher education in Croatia, including important objections to the Tempus project activity and obstacles on the way. Discover the expected outcomes and measures to overcome resistance.

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STATE OF THE ART – QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEM IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN CROATIA

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  1. STATE OF THE ART – QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEM IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN CROATIA

  2. CONTENT: • Introduction • Current State of Quality Assurance System • Important Objections to the Tempus Project Activity • Obstacles on the Way • Expected Outcomes

  3. INTRODUCTION • University environment (diverse, hostile, less affluent) bring uncertainty and vague future to the higher education life • Challenges: massification, competitiveness, budget restrictions, globalisations • Reaction to the the challenges: structural, functional, managerial change

  4. Quality and Autonomy: the Challenge for Institutions • Internationalisation and Quality: Goals, Strategies and Instruments • Quality and Performance • Quality and the Development of Study Programmes • Quality and Student Mobility

  5. QUALITY  innovations, enhancement, advancement, new technology, new methods, high performance, improvement  QUALITY ASSURANCE

  6. Current state of QA System in CROATIA - HE Law adapted in 1993, amended in 1996 and 2000 - Law, by-laws /statutes, rules, regulations, recommendations speak about procedures, standards, criteria and mechanisms of QA in higher education - National Council of Higher Education is an independent, strategic, expert advisory and evaluating body (by law) In reality?!

  7. Currently, Croatian HE institutions are in the procedure of change: - new HE law - change of the structure, organisation and management - change of QA system

  8. IMPORTANT OBJECTIONS TO THE TEMPUS PROJECT ACTIVITY Specific objectives: 1. establishment of sustainable enrolment policy 2. enhancement of quality culture 3. development of institutional evaluation model

  9. OBSTACLES ON THE WAY EXPECTED OUTCOMES • Resistance of the academic community (loss of privileges and acquired rights • Additional effort

  10. MEASURES to weaken the resistance: • providing relevant and broad information to the academic community • explaining the need for change • explaining the benefits that changes bring • state institutions and university authorities should support by all means changes and development of the QA system • HE institutions should be ready to accept develop and continuously implement high quality standards and criteria • the QA system should respect and give incentives by rewarding quality and excellence

  11. CROATIAN PARTNERS WOULD LIKE TO BENEFIT FROM YOUR EXPERIENCES IN THIS MATTER THANK YOU

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