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Transcript National Center for Professional Education Quality Assurance
Transitional period challenges in
Armenian tertiary education QA system:
Building the TRUST
Ruben Topchyan
ANQA Director
On-going policies in Eastern area and the main obstacles
Tempus Higher Education Reform Experts Seminar on Quality Assurance
Zagreb (Croatia), 12-13 June 2014
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Armenian Tertiary Level Institutions
ANQA mission
Achievements leading to building trust
Overall impact on the Higher Education System
Empowering HEIs in IQA: revising ownership potential
Triggering changes at teaching and learning level
Closing pilot accreditations period
Challenges
Tempus Higher Education Reform Experts Seminar on Quality Assurance
06/13/14
Armenia:
general information on tertiary education
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Population: 2,967,004 (July 2009 est.)
18 public universities and 13 branches
3 intergovernmental universities
48 private universities
37 private accredited universities
5 branches of international and nonstate universities
3 branches of international public
universities
83 public colleges
34 vocational institutions
12 private accredited colleges
11 private licensed colleges
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ANQA mission
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ANQA strives to promote public trust, social cohesion, equity,
responsibility and competitiveness through systematic
enhancement of tertiary level education provisions.
It does so by
being receptive to the needs of the national stakeholders through
its mandatory institutional audits and voluntary programme
accreditation
complying with international standards for quality assurance
ensuring visibility at international level thus contributing to a
stronger positioning of the Armenian tertiary education within
Europe
valuing close cooperation with stakeholders in the process of
developing a quality assurance system.
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Quality Assurance Framework:
Giving Autonomy and Taking Responsibility
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Top down system of HEI management
Institutional Accreditation - Mandatory
HEI management audit – development of QA culture
Mission
Governance
Academic program
Teaching staff
Learning environment
Student provision
Research
Service to society
Internationalization
Internal QA system
Program Accreditation - Voluntary
Connecting to government financing
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Overall impact on the Higher Education System:
External Quality Assurance
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Consistent application of publicly available procedures
and criteria
Quality Criteria – which provide for development and
enhancement
Established procedures and respective documentation
Involvement of international peers and bilingual
procedure
Establishment of Accreditation Commission drawing on
the nominations of key stakeholders
Environmental scan: in-depth analysis of the Selfevaluation Reports and Expert Panel Reports
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Overall impact on the Higher Education
System: External Quality Assurance
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Drawing on system-wide analysis on quality assurance –
development of grant projects for capacity building
TEMPUS
Internal QA and External QA establishment – DIUS, PICQA
A move from fragmented to systemic approach to HEI management GOVERN
QA of transnational providers - TNE_QA
Alignment and checking the alignment of Study Programs with NQF - ALIGN
Development of PhD qualifications – VERITAS
Internationalization of educational processes – PICASA
Establishment of links between HEIs – Labor Market – ARARAT
Master’s programme in training educational leaders – MAHATMA
World Bank
ANQA capacity building –ARQATA
Trainings of IQA responsible in HEI
UNESCO – Scoping study on QA in Caucasus
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Overall impact on the Higher Education System:
a move from fragmented to systemic
approach in HEI governance and management
Need of informative decision-making culture
Widening of teaching staff involvement –
as guarantee of sustainability
Pro-active involvement of top-management – as a
guarantee of success
Revision of management approaches to promote a
systemic approach to HEI development
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Empowering HEIs in IQA:
revising ownership potential
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Development of a culture of regular selfassessment
Self-critical approach
A move from descriptive to analytical approach
Specifying and clearly stating objectives for
development
Ownership for processes
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Empowering HEIs in IQA:
revising ownership potential
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Employment of benchmarking tool in different
areas, mainly for programs
Revision of the role of IQA unit
Actual application of a mission-based approach to
HEI and programme management
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Triggering changes at teaching and
learning level
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Move to a learning outcome approach to study
programme development
Revision of assessment methods to incorporate
assessment of learning outcomes
Revision of teaching and learning methods linked to
learning outcomes
Strengthening research component of study
programmes
Linking research and teaching and learning
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Closing the pilot phase
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Building legitimacy: QA criteria and standards tested for
appropriateness
Closure of the first round of report development,
readable
Building on experience of self evaluation and use of the
peers recommendations – ANQA and HEIs
Equipping HEIs for the follow up activities
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Closing the pilot phase
Establishment and operationalization of Accreditation
Commission
Taking decisions
not stopping developments
ANQA has undergone proof evaluation against ESGs
Revision of ANQA approaches drawing on the extensive
feedback of national and international stakeholders
Closing first cycle of Institutional accreditation in - 2016.
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Challenges
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Autonomy
Of institutions
Of faculties
Empowering internal quality assurance of HEIs
Student-centered education along its all domains
Curricula development
Credit system
Internationalization
Mobility
Comparability
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