Identifying barriers in promoting the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance at institutional level and making recommendations as to how these might be addressed

Provider

Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports

Programme

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Call for proposals

2009/S 99-142918

Main participants

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Contest type

RP - Co-financing of EC programme

Contract ID

13595/2011 ? 321

Project name in Czech

Identifying barriers in promoting the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance at institutional level and making recommendations as to how these might be addressed

Annotation in Czech

Assuring quality of teaching and learning activities is the quintessential task that higher education institutions (HEIs) must face in an increasingly competitive national and international environment. Adoption of the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG) in 2005 has added new momentum to research in the quality assurance policy domain. So far, the corresponding research has centred on national (quality assurance agencies), not institutional level, and lacked the outreach to secondary education as well as the theoretical base. The project aims to fill in this gap in theoretical and empirical knowledge by: (i) identifying barriers to the ESG implementation at institutional level (i.e. ESG Part 1) andgiving relevant recommendations for the ESG Part 1 modification; (ii) identifying the extent to which the ESG Part 1 implementation impacts on the interrelationship between the secondary and higher education sector. The fulfilment of the aims is to be based on the theory of the implementation deficit and will be done by the research on a sample of 28 HEIs in 7 European countries (CZ, GB, LV, PT, PL, SK, NL) and the following comparative analysis. Four kinds of outputs will be produced during the project execution: a. 28 institutional case studies (national languages plus English); b. 8 comparative analyses including the impact of the ESG Part 1on secondary education (English); c. 1 book summarizing the project outcomes (English); d. 1 final synthesisreport including the relevant recommendations (English). These project outputs will aid in informed policy-making in the quality assurance domain, with respect to facilitation of the implementation of the ESG Part 1 in particular, i.e. ENQA (and partners), management of HEIs, chairs of secondary schools, ministries of education, interested higher education research community.

R&D category

ZV - Basic research

CEP classification - main branch

AM - Pedagogy and education

CEP - secondary branch

AM - Pedagogy and education

CEP - another secondary branch

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OECD FORD - equivalent branches <br>(according to the <a href="http://www.vyzkum.cz/storage/att/E6EF7938F0E854BAE520AC119FB22E8D/Prevodnik_oboru_Frascati.pdf">converter</a>)

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]<br>50302 - Education, special (to gifted persons, those with learning disabilities)

Provider evaluation

U - Uspěl podle zadání (s publikovanými či patentovanými výsledky atd.)

Project results evaluation

Following the condition that the candidate of financial contribution was evaluated and afterwards selected by international provider in accordance with the rules of the program the Ministry of Education, Youth ans Sports does not realize the evaluation of project results. The project is evaluated only after its approval by an international provider.

Realization period - beginning

Jan 1, 2011

Realization period - end

Dec 31, 2013

Project status

U - Finished project

Latest support payment

Mar 27, 2013

Confidentiality

C - Předmět řešení projektu podléhá obchodnímu tajemství (§ 504 Občanského zákoníku), ale název projektu, cíle projektu a u ukončeného nebo zastaveného projektu zhodnocení výsledku řešení projektu (údaje P03, P04, P15, P19, P29, PN8) dodané do CEP, jsou upraveny tak, aby byly zveřejnitelné.

Data delivery code

CEP14-MSM-7E-U/01:1

Data delivery date

Jun 30, 2014

Total approved costs

1,611 thou. CZK

Public financial support

1,611 thou. CZK

Other public sources

0 thou. CZK

Non public and foreign sources

0 thou. CZK