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International regional seminar 2021

Quality Assurance in Higher Education: mechanisms at the national level and institutional implementation

Date: 16-18 September 2021  

Format: Combination of offline (25 participants) and online: 60 participants

Venue: Ust-Kamenogorsk, East-Kazakhstan Serikbayev University (Nur-Sultan, Astana IT University)

Organizers: Department of higher and post-higher education of the Ministry of education and science of RK, National Erasmus+ Office in Kazakhstan, HEREs.

Participants: Rectors, Deputy-rectors, Heads of academic departments, deans and Heads of chairs, representatives of Accreditation agencies and of enterprises, other stakeholders.

Goal: Contribute to fostering quality culture among higher education academic staff and learners through discussion and development of efficient national model of quality assurance in higher education.

Objectives:

-  Familiarization with EU practice of QA in higher education;

-  Analysis of the current system of QA in Kazakhstan and QA tools on the national level;

- Sharing experience of internal QA at the institutional level.

Expected outcomes

At the national level:

  1. National model of QA in higher education discussed and developed;
  2. Tools for state control, evaluation and quality assurance in higher education in a new format defined;
  3. Suggestions to introducing changes and amendments to legislative and normative documents to support the proposed model of national QA system made.

At the institutional level:

  1. Model of internal QA system at the institutional level discussed and designed;
  2. Quality culture among academic staff and learners fostered;
  3. Mechanism of implementing internal QA standards in the education process of HEIs developed;
  4. System of evaluating the efficiency of internal QA operation developed.

The event programme is available at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bYKaot1S5o9AHEXA2y5FK6s3SB58ivVd/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=113681266171747276005&rtpof=true&sd=true