the russian quality assurance system
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The Russian Quality Assurance System
Galina Motova, Ph.D, D.Sc.
National Accreditation Agency of the Russian FederationDeputy Director
Increase of the Russian students’ number per 10 th. citizens (Public and Private Universities)
178 171 178195 207 220
246
285
323
359390
434458
487509
1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
The Structure of the Russian Educational SystemIncrease of the HEIs’ number (Public and Private Universities)
Private UniversitiesPublic Universities
548 552 569 573 578 580 590 603 628 633 633 689691633
664647627
578525
410399
349334302244
193157
78
1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
The Structure of Higher Education in Russia
• Federal Public Institutions – 684• Regional Public Institutions – 56• Municipal Institutions – 15• Private Institutions – 677
Total HEIs – 1432
• Branches of the HEI – 2136
• Programs – over 30 000
• Students – over 7 mil.
Accreditation features in Russia (1997):
Institutional accreditation• Evaluation of the quality of institutions and
programs;• Establishment of HEI status (kind of the
institution: university, academy, institute);• Right to award State-recognized diplomas
Criteria for accreditation and benchmarks for determining HEIs status
• Content of curricula (mission, process)
• Quality of education (students outcomes, employment)
• Information resources (libraries, computers, soft-ware, internet)
• Educational equipment • Students guidance (tuition,
infrastructure)
• Educational programs: number and diversity
• Post-graduate programs: number and diversity
• Research achievements: financing and outcomes
• Publications• Qualification of teaching staff:
number of Ph.D. degree staff and D.Sc. Degree staff
Steps of Accreditation
• Ex- ante - Licensing);• Collection of the Database of all HEIs
(annual);• Ex- post - Accreditation (after 5
years):1. Self-evaluation;2. External review;3. Final report (benchmarking);4. Accreditation decision;5. Publication of results
Bodies and organizations taking part in institutional accreditation:
• Federal Service of Supervision in HESc• Accreditation Board • National Accreditation Agency• Attestation Center• Gild of Experts• Associations of Academics• HEIs’ associations• Regional rectors’ Councils
Accreditation Board
Representativesof the Federal Service
of Supervision in HEand Science
8%
Representativesof legal
and executive bodies
27%
Heads of Private HEIs
13%
Headsof Public HEIs
44%
Representativesof public
organizations4%
Representativesof Trade Unions
2%
Representativesof the Russian Union
of students2%
The Results of the Accreditation Board’s activity(1997-2006, by 01.01.2007)
Number of meetings 79
Number of accreditation decisions 5027
status approval 1644 2193 84
status change 186 73 12status determination 452 192 191
HEIS CollegesProfessionaldevelopmentInstitutions
National Accreditation Agency (1995)
- Moscow - Yoshkar-Ola
Thecompetitivecommission
Theinformation-
analyticaldirectory
of IGS
Экспертный
Audit report
Centraldatabase
Mirrorof CDB
In Moscow
Registrationand verificationof documents
Fillingof the
database
Registrationand verificationof documents
Administrationof the
database
Generationof final reports
The expertanalysis
Final report
for accredita-
tion
Accreditationboard
Draftof the
Accredita-tion order
Ministry ofeducation
and science
Departments
The registerof the accredited
institutions
Theanalytical
report
System of theintellectual
analysis of data
Generation ofaudit and consulting
report
The expertanalysis
GenerationOf IGS
The expertanalysis
Consulting report
HEIs
Colleges
CDI
HEIs
Colleges
CDI
Regionaleducation authorities
Internet Technologies in Quality Assurance
Internet-exam participation (V stage)(April – June 2007)
840 HEIs (including private HEIs – 419) from 82regions of Russia,
8 HEIs from CIS (Armenia, Belorussia, Kirgizia, Moldova, Kazakhstan)
42 disciplines
272 vocational institutions (including private – 83)
10 disciplines (for vocational institutions)
Collection of students’ feedback
Collection of graduates’ feedback
Agency
Administration HEIs
CDB
Analyticalreports
Students
Electronic questionnaire
Final reportsfor accreditation
www.nica.ru
Alumni
Employers
Teaching staff
Publications of results
• Final reports• Register of Accredited HE
Institutions (in hard and soft copy)
• Manuals, handbooks, software
• web-site: www.nica.ru• Journal “Accreditation in
Education”
Journal “Accreditation in Education”
International Cooperation on Quality Assurance
International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE, 1991)
European Association for Quality Assurance (ENQA, 2000)
Network of Central and Eastern European Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (CEENET, 2001)
Asia-Pacific Quality Network (APQN, 2005)Eurasian Quality Assurance Network (EAQAN, 2004)
Stocktaking Report 2007
• National implementation of Standards and Guidelines for QA in the EHEA (ESG)
• Stage of development of external quality assurance system
• Level of student participation
• Level of international participation
