Study of Best Practice and Experience Exchange at Charles University Prague
June 30, 2014
From June 20-27, 2014, four employees of ISEC NAS RA-Head of the QA Department Narine Vardanyan, Chief Specialist of QA Department Gohar Grigoryan, Head of the IT Department Armen Sargsyan and Head of the Law Department Simon Babayan under the guidance of the ISEC NAS RA Director Albert Sargsyan, within the component “Establishment and Strengthening of the National Quality Assurance System” of the second program “Education Quality and Compliance” went on a business trip to the Check Republic, Charles University for exchange of experience (benchmarking). During five-day interactive and saturated meetings the representatives of the two universities discussed and touched upon a number of issues that are mostly existent both At ISEC NAS RA and Charles University. In particular, they referred to the Bologna process implementation at the universities, to the existing QA problems and solution methods, to mechanisms for assessing educational programs by students, to the provision of student mobility, to issues on the development of lifelong educational programs, to the development perspectives and quality of the electronic information system management activities at both universities, to the issues of study-program compliance with the national qualification framework, as well as to the educational-system issues related to the legislative field in both countries.
On June 24 2014 a meeting was held between the Vice Rector for Conception of Study Prof. Stanislav Stech and the delegation of ISEC NAS RA, where the two university leaders spoke about the prospects for future cooperation. ISEC delegation was also hosted by the Strategic Project Department of Charles University a part of which was QA subdivision.
During the field study by concrete examples based on documents QA internal system development mechanisms were compared and discussed, in particular QA procedure carried out at both Universities. An agreement was reached on further exchange of experience and materials such as frequent meetings both in Prague and Yerevan.
