Project duration: December 1, 2013 - November 30, 2017.
Within the framework of this project, the partners of Khmelnytskyi National University are Yerevan State Linguistic University (Armenia), University of the University of Bath (UK), Institute of Arts, Design and Technology (Ireland), Graduate School of St. Leo, Ghent (Belgium), Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland), University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany), Yerevan State Academy of Arts (Armenia), Yerevan State Medical University (Armenia), National Center for Quality Control of Vocational Education (Armenia), National Association of Students of Armenia (Armenia), Republican Union of Employers (Armenia), Moscow State University for the Humanities (Russia), Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Ammosov (Russia), Volga State Technological University (Russia), National Center for Public and Professional Accreditation (Russia), Student Union of Russia, Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (Regional) (Russia), Ministry of Education and Science (Russia), Ministry of Education and Science (Armenia), Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine), Sumy State University (Ukraine), Ukrainian Association of Student Self-Government (Ukraine), Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Khmelnytskyi Region (Ukraine), Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
Project goal and objectives:
- To promote a better understanding of the role and structure of national and sectoral qualifications frameworks by HEIs and quality assurance agencies and an understanding of the difference between different types and levels of student achievement.
- To build the capacity of HEIs to describe and assess learning outcomes that define different types of student achievement and support the development of student-centered teaching and learning.
- To develop the capacity of HEIs to use qualifications frameworks to facilitate student mobility, and joint programs, search for new best practices and implement more advanced approaches.
- To create conditions for education quality assurance agencies to verify that the learning outcomes and assessment mechanisms offered by HEIs align with the descriptors of the qualifications framework at each level by creating tools to ensure consistency of approaches across partner universities.
Areas of activity in the frames of the project:
- Build the capacity of HEIs and quality assurance agencies to achieve alignment with the national qualifications framework and implement appropriate controls.
- Develop mechanisms to ensure alignment with national qualifications frameworks (for HEIs).
- Develop the mechanisms for monitoring compliance with quality assurance standards (for education quality assurance agencies).
- Modernize 2 curricula in each HEI and pilot evaluation of the developed mechanisms.
- Adopt/approve tools to ensure compliance with the qualifications framework in HEIs, education quality assurance agencies and at the state and administrative level.
Expected results:
- Two curricula in each HEI were reviewed for compliance with European standards and requirements of the qualifications framework.
- HEI staff retrained to assess learning outcomes and promote student-centered teaching and learning.
- Mechanisms for achieving and verifying compliance with the national qualifications framework have been developed.
- Two selected curricula have been evaluated using the developed mechanisms.
- Tools for achieving conformity adopted/approved in higher education institutions, education quality assurance agencies, and at the state and administrative level.
The project coordinator is Yerevan State Linguistic University, Armenia. Rector, Prof. Gayane Gasparyan
Project Coordinator from the University - Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor S. Hryhoruk.