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Nacionalna agencija RS za kakovost v visokem šolstvu- NAKVIS

Learn about the activities and initiatives of the Slovenian Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (SQAA) in ensuring quality in the education system. Explore their organizational structure, compliance with international standards, and their future plans for sustainable financing. Discover how SQAA contributes to the improvement of higher education in Slovenia.

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Nacionalna agencija RS za kakovost v visokem šolstvu- NAKVIS

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  1. Nacionalna agencija RS za kakovost v visokem šolstvu- NAKVIS Slovenian Quality Assurance Agency for HE – SQAA Towards a Sustainable Model for Quality Assurance Processes Skopje, 5-6 december 2017. PROF. DR. IVAN LEBAN

  2. My activities in QA in HE Vice Rector University of Ljubljana (2001-2005) Member of pool of experts EUA IEP (2006- Vice President ECA (2015- Vice President CEENQA (2015- • Institutional Evaluation of universites: • Turkey Izmir(2), Aydin, Bolu, Ankara • Romania Suceava, Iasi(2), Galaty • Montenegro Podgorica • Croatia Zagreb, Split (Chemistry) • Lithuania Kaunas • Latvia Riga(2) • Portugal Porto • Bulgaria Sofija • Kazakhstan Almaty • Macedonia FRY Skopje • Russia Samara • Slovenia Univerza na Primorskem

  3. NAKVIS – originallyfounded in 2010 • Agency: • 19 employees + Director • 11 Councillors, 5 in Appeal Committee • 180 Trained experts-evaluators

  4. Council of the Agency (11 members) HighestDecisionMakingBody -        3membersnominatedbyRectorsConference, -      1membernominatedbyprivateinstitutions, -   1memberniminatedbyhighervocationalcolleges, -        2membersnominatedbyStudents Union andstudentscouncils, -  1membernominatedbyTradeUnions of Education, -        1membernominatedbypotentialemployers, -    2membersnominatedby the Government on PublicAppeal (1 memberexpert on QA in HE, 1 memberworkingabroad)

  5. ORGANISATION SCHEME from March 2010 180 Trained Experts (including students and from abroad)

  6. TERTIARY EDUCATION in SLOVENIA • 2 mio inhabitants • Study year2015/16enrolled • Universities and HEIs 69.881students • Higher Vocational Schools 11.162students • 7univs ( 3state + 3 private + 1 network) • + 42HEIs • 917accredited study programmes ! • But only !!! 3400 FTE teachers !!! • 50HVC - 31 public and 19 private • 36 study programmes

  7. Distribution of HEIs web page http://www.nakvis.si

  8. Study Programmes ISCED državni = state zasebni = private

  9. SQAAA young agency – founded 2010 Independent, non-profit, non-governmental, state institution SQAA is not a “PUBLIC AGENCY” – is not covered by the Public Agencies Act We are in the same position as: Court of Auditors Constitutional Court Anti Corruption Commission Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sci.... With one exception: we are not autonomous We are under Higher Education Act (51.a-51.ž) and Bye-Laws – Criteria for Evaluation and Accred......

  10. Member ENQA (2015), in EQAR (2013) • www.eqar.eu and www.enqa.eu • ENQA ESG standards • Part 2 – external evaluation procedure • Part 3 - evaluation of agency itself • Decisions: • http://www.eqar.eu/fileadmin/agencyreports/2013_05_SQAA_ApprovalDecision.pdf • http://www.enqa.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Letter-ENQA-to-SQAA_180315.pdf • Final reports: • http://www.eqar.eu/fileadmin/agencyreports/SQAA_External_Review_Report.pdf • http://www.enqa.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Review-report-of-the-SQAA.pdf

  11. COMPLIANCE TO STANDARDS: judged as fully, substantially, partially, non-compliant EQAR 16 standards (2013) 7 fully 8 substantially 1 partially ENQA 17 standards (2015) 10 fully 6 substaintally 1 partially

  12. ENQA (6) EQAR (2) ENQA+EQAR (45) SUM 53 Grolimund, AAQ, 2017

  13. Grolimund AAQ 2017

  14. Grolimund AAQ 2017

  15. Future plans - Information system eNAKVIS - Evaluations/accreditations + Counseling (Q&A) - Trying to put forward separate Act on Agency to get more independency - Sustainable financing

  16. There are constant • ill-oriented critiques • about HE system and quality • in general of Slovenia ! • Just some randomly selected data to think about !

  17. AUDIT REPORT OF THE RS COURT OF AUDITORS PROCEDURES FOR EVALUATION, ACCREDITATION AND AWARDING CONCESSIONS IN HIGHER EDUCATION Number: 320-5/2014/80;Ljubljana, April 13, 2016 The Court of Auditors expressed the opinion that AGENCYwhen regulating and implementing the evaluation and accreditation procedures and the GOVERNMENT and the MINISTRY in the organization of evaluation and accreditation procedures and in the regulation and implementation of the awarding of concessions in the period from 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2013, were not effective .

  18. The inefficiency of the evaluation and accreditation procedures with which the AGENCY performs external quality assurance of HEIs is attributed in particular to unclear, inaccurate and incomprehensible legal bases. It established that the MINISTRY, as a draftsperson and the GOVERNMENT, did not properly plan the school system in the part relating to ensuring the quality and diversity of study programs as a proposer of legislation in the field of higher education, and that the adopted legal bases did not specify precisely what the external quality assurance procedures should check. The new Criteria for Accreditation and External Evaluation of HEIs and Study Programs Ur.l. 42/17 followed these recomendations.!!!www.nakvis.si

  19. Some rankings Shanghai ranking http://www.shanghairanking.com/Search.jsp University of Ljubljana 401-500 place

  20. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankingshttps://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings 2017 2018

  21. U.S.News Education https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/search?country=slovenia&name=

  22. World State of Quality project http://wsq.dps.uminho.pt/

  23. 50 States National HE systems Universitas 21 Melbourne http://www.universitas21.com/article/projects/details/153/executive-summary-and-full-2015-report

  24. The Global Competitiveness Report 2017-2018 http://www3.weforum.org/docs/GCR2017-2018/05FullReport/TheGlobalCompetitivenessReport2017%E2%80%932018.pdf

  25. V letu 2016 le 2,00 %

  26. These are the ten best countries for skill and education http://wef.ch/2x8FpPy #hcr17pic.twitter.com/cq4sQOYNEo 10:00 PM - 19 Oct 2017

  27. https://www.slideshare.net/EurUniversityAssociation/university-mergers-in-europehttps://www.slideshare.net/EurUniversityAssociation/university-mergers-in-europe

  28. PISA 22 Nov 2017 @OECDEducation

  29. WORK-BASED LEARNING (WBL) 2017 is an educational strategy that provides students with real-life work experiences where they can apply academic and technical skills and develop their employability."[1] It is a series of educational courses which integrate the school or university curriculum with the workplace to create a different learning paradigm. "Work-based learning deliberately merges theory with practice and acknowledges the intersection of explicit and tacit forms of knowing."[2] Vir:Wikipedia In Slovenia (Yugoslavia) we had “Carreer Oriented Study Law” already in 1981, but it did not work very well – please, do check !!!

  30. Action Plan (in Nov 2016 HE Act) Move towards Institutional evaluation/accreditation More autonomy to univs (handling Study Programmes) Importance of IQA at HEIs Reducing bureaucracy Validity of Accreditation 5 yrs Sample evaluation of study progs. (just recommends.) Initial Accreditation of brand new stud. progs. Keeping an update of stud. progs. Extraordinary evaluation progs/instits. Joint Study Progs (European Appr.), CBHE, notification Various databases eNAKVIS/eVŠ - digitalization, big-data etc...

  31. INVITATIONECA-NVAO Seminar Institutional and Programme Reviews: Towards New Combinations 1 February 2018 | Brussels A trend towards implementing institutional reviews can be clearly discerned across Europe. However, the quality of education rests in the first place with the teachers and students in the programmes of study.This seminar focuses on experiences of institutions and QA agencies in dealing with programme quality within institutional reviews.

  32. SQAA-NAKVIS Some of our work in 2016 No. of visits No. of days UL 34 55 UM 13 20 UP 3 5 UNG 3 3 HEIs 19 22 HVC 6 8 Sum 78 visits 113 days

  33. Number of Ph.D.s

  34. But….Digitalization, Industry 4.0 • in spite of various debates about student-centred learning, learning outcomes, lifelong learning, work based learning, joint programmes and even on the use of ICT (distance learning) in education, • the education sector, and higher education in particular, is still adopting antiquated methods of facilitating learning. • Curricula and programmes can barely catch up with the needs of contemporary social life and business/industry.

  35. Some Quotations: THE PURPOSE OF EVALUATION IS TO IMPROVE, NOT TO PROVE. QUALITY PAYS. Gregory H. Watson at 61st EOQ, Bled , 2017 WHAT IS QUALITY ? Relentless pursuit of goodness and persistent avoidness of badness !

  36. Superhik‏ @_Superhik_ Hvala lepa vsem! Thanks to all !

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