AKKORK says that it uses the multistandard approach during the expertise of education quality. Could you please describe how AKKORK uses it?
Initially the basis for AKKORK criteria are ESG
standards. As AKKORK works on the RF territory and the universities with which
it works are aspiring to receive the state accreditation and doing their
activity on the territory of Russian Federation, carrying out the review based
on ESG we can’t ignore the requirements of the Federal State Education
Standards. Otherwise the AKKORK’s reviews will contradict the requirements of
the Russian legislation. The adherence to the Federal State Education Standards
is prescribed by the Constitution of Russian Federation. (http://www.constitution.ru/10003000/10003000-4.htm article 43).This allows
to take into consideration the AKKORK reports in the state accreditation
procedures, this helps to build on the basis of ESG the quality culture in RF.
This is the basis of multistandard approach on the
basis of ESG.
As the basic documents of the Bologna Process presuppose the
preservation of the individual specifics and at the same time creation of the
common education area, so in the documents that were developed by AKKORK and
which guide its activity this specifics is presented in course of development
of such approach in the limits that it does not contradict with the European
Standards and Guidelines.
For assessment of the learning outcomes quality the
professional standards requirements, developed by the Russian employers’
associations are taken into account. During the assessment of the institutional
indicators (management quality, quality of learning technologies) AKKORK uses
the universally recognized technological, managerial and other standards.
