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

Thank you for your attention!

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