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:
- National model of QA in higher education discussed and developed;
- Tools for state control, evaluation and quality assurance in higher education in a new format defined;
- 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:
- Model of internal QA system at the institutional level discussed and designed;
- Quality culture among academic staff and learners fostered;
- Mechanism of implementing internal QA standards in the education process of HEIs developed;
- 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