STATE OF THE ART

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STATE OF THE ART QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEM IN
HIGHER EDUCATION IN CROATIA
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• CONTENT
• Introduction
• Current State of Quality Assurance System
• Important Objections to the Tempus Project
  Activity
• Obstacles on the Way
• Expected Outcomes

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INTRODUCTION

• University environment (diverse, hostile, less
  affluent) bring uncertainty and vague future to
  the higher education life

• Challenges massification, competitiveness,
  budget restrictions, globalisations

• Reaction to the the challenges structural,
  functional, managerial change

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• Quality and Autonomy the Challenge for
  Institutions
• Internationalisation and Quality Goals,
  Strategies and Instruments
• Quality and Performance
• Quality and the Development of Study Programmes
• Quality and Student Mobility

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• QUALITY

? innovations, enhancement, advancement, new
technology, new methods, high performance,
improvement
? QUALITY ASSURANCE
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Current state of QA System in CROATIA
- HE Law adapted in 1993, amended in 1996 and
2000 - Law, by-laws /statutes, rules,
regulations, recommendations speak about
procedures, standards, criteria and mechanisms of
QA in higher education
- National Council of Higher Education is an
independent, strategic, expert advisory and
evaluating body (by law) In reality?!
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Currently, Croatian HE institutions are in the
procedure of change - new HE law - change of
the structure, organisation and management -
change of QA system
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IMPORTANT OBJECTIONS TO THE TEMPUS PROJECT
ACTIVITY
Specific objectives 1. establishment of
sustainable enrolment policy 2. enhancement of
quality culture 3. development of institutional
evaluation model
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OBSTACLES ON THE WAY EXPECTED OUTCOMES

• Resistance of the academic community (loss of
  privileges and acquired rights

• Additional effort

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• MEASURES to weaken the resistance
• providing relevant and broad information to the
  academic community
• explaining the need for change
• explaining the benefits that changes bring
• state institutions and university authorities
  should support by all means changes and
  development of the QA system
• HE institutions should be ready to accept develop
  and continuously implement high quality standards
  and criteria
• the QA system should respect and give incentives
  by rewarding quality and excellence

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CROATIAN PARTNERS WOULD LIKE TO BENEFIT FROM YOUR
EXPERIENCES IN THIS MATTER THANK YOU