Critical Review of Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education

Critical Review of Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher

Education

Accreditation Agency of Republika Srpska: IV Accreditation Forum

Banja Luka, November 12th, 2013

Vera Vujčić, CAQA Vice-President

System of Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Serbia

• 2005 Law on Higher Education

• 2006 - CAQA was constituted

- NCHE adopts:

1. Standards and procedures for

accreditation of HEIs and study programs

2. Standards and procedures for external quality control of HEIs

3. Standards for self-evaluation

System of Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Serbia

• 2008 - CAQA becomes ENQA Associate• 2010 - CAQA becomes ENQA Candidate

member• 2011 - CAQA enters process of external evaluation

(self-evaluation report)• 2012 – site visit of expert team • April 25th, 2013 – CAQA becomes full ENQA member

I Accreditation Round (2007-2011)

2007: 78 polytechnics+515 programs

2008: 81 faculties/coll./univ.+928 programs



2011: 145 programs

Total: 232 HEIs+1947 programs submitted accreditation request

Results of I Accreditation Round • 65 (47 state, 18 private) accredited polytechnics with

331 study programs (BPS, SPS) for 22.773 students in the first year

• 16 accredited universities (8 state, 8 private) • 118 accredited faculties with 1205 study programs

(BAS, MAS, IAS, SAS, DS, BPS, SPS) for 65.607 students in the first year

• 6 (2 state, 4 private) accredited colleges with 17 study programs for 1.112 students in the first year

• Total: 205 HEIs+1553 programs accredited (85% students enroll state, 15% private HEIs)

II Accreditation Round (2012-2016)

2012: 51 polytechnics+210 programs

accredited (3+2 Act of Warning)

2013: 27 HEIs+357 programs in progress

Expected:

2014: 62 HEIs+400 programs



I External quality control round (2011-2015)

2011: 54 requests of HEIs supported by self-evaluation reports

2012: 44 requests of HEIs supported by self-evaluation reports

Current Results: CAQA accepted 78 reports on external quality control of HEIs

2013: 50 requests expected



Accreditation of Polytechnics- System-Wide Analysis

• From 2007-2012 polytechnics have fully implemented internal QA processes which is documented by:

• self-evaluation reports• reports on external quality control• results of the second accreditation round• In October 2012, Conference of Academies for

Professional Studies became a member of EURASHE


• Regional distribution of HEIs• Distribution of study programs in five fields• No. of students enrolled in the first year of basic

professional studies (180 ECTS)• No. of students enrolled in the first year of

specialist professional studies (60 ECTS)• No. of students per professor• No. of square meters in higher education

institution per student.


RegionNumber of

schools

Number of study

programs(2013)

Number of students(2013)

Belgrade 25 128 9648

Vojvodina 11 70 3831Šumadija and Western Sebia

14 995029

Eastern and Southern Serbia

12 653525

Kosovo 3 16 1382

Total 65 378 23415


Number and percentage of students in different fields

9769; 41,7%

11482; 49,0%

1754; 7,5%336; 1,4%

64; 0,3%

10; 0,0%

HHS

TTS

MS

A

IP

NSM


Number and percentage for state schools

8217; 39%

11242; 53%

1290; 6% 336; 2%

HHS

TTS

MS

A


Number and percentage for private schools

1552; 68%

240; 11%

464; 21%

HHSTTS

MS


Number of programs of different levels in fields

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

HHS TTS MS A IP NSM

72

136

19

11

2

46

77

12

1 1 1

BPS

SPS


Number of students of different levels in fields

0

1000

2000

3000

4000

5000

6000

7000

8000

9000

10000

HHS TTS MS A IP NSM

7904

9141

1294

32048

1865

2341

460

16 16 10

BPS

SPS


Comparative analysis of two accreditation rounds

Scientific field (number of schools)

2007-2011 2008-2012

number ofstudents/number of

teachers (mean ± SD)

m2/number of students(mean ± SD)

number ofstudents/number of

teachers(mean ± SD)

m2/number of students(mean ± SD)

HSS (n=20) 34.0 ± 14.57 4.62 ± 4.35 30.1 ± 12.02 4.44 ± 3.51

TTS (n=26) 26.1 ± 11.10 3.23 ± 2.88 23.6 ± 9.36 3.25 ± 1.23

MS (n=4) 17.6 ± 15.06 6.08 ± 3.32 13.0 ± 1.88 6.89 ± 2.87

Total 31.4 ± 13.61 3.82 ± 3.34 27.7 ± 10.72 4.47 ± 3.51

Future activities

• Harmonization of standards with changes in ESG

• Development of subject-specific standards

• Improvement of standards for doctoral studies

• Improvement of external quality control procedures to include follow-up

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