The Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance and Career Development

On April 21 the AKKORK Agency together with the institute for further vocational education development held a workshop on the issue of «Methodology of internal and external evaluation of the education organization’s staff – ways to an effective contract with employees of all levels».
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On April 18 there took place the AKKORK Accreditation Council’s meeting.
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On April 15 there took place a meeting of the AKKORK Advisory Council, where the expert reports on main programs of the Russian State Social University, the Moscow State Art and Cultural University, the Siberian Institute of Continuous Education in Forestry, the Noyabrsk college of professional and information technologies, the Novosibirsk aeronautic technical college were examined.
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On April 9 there took place the Committee meeting of «OPORA ROSSII» for small and medium enterprises staff and education, where an AKKORKrepresentative took part. Recommendations on development of the higher education federal state standard for the program «Business studies» were the main issue for discussion.
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Cooperation agreement between AKKORK and the Agency for Quality Assurance through Accreditation of Study Programmes (AQAS) has been completed in the field of international accreditation of educational programs. AQAS, founded in 2002, has a big work experience abroad and a branching network of international partners.
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Dr. Heinz-Ulrich Schmidt, representative of the Foundation for international Business Administration Accreditation FIBAA answered several questions of the journal «Education Quality». In his interview he told about approaches of FIBAA to independent quality assessment conduct of educational programs, to the agency activity abroad and its interaction with AKKORK.
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AKKORK invites for professional development Due to the increased interest in strengthening the competitiveness of educational organizations, designing of the basic professional educational programs and regulation of systems of internal and external personnel assessment of educational organizations, AKKORK jointly with Federal State Educational Institution of Additional Professional Education "Institute of Continuing Professional Education" in the April - May, 2014 period conducts seminars to improve the skills of managers and specialists of educational organizations, as well as of those wishing to get competence from all the areas of the stated topics of study.

stated topics of study. Education is aimed on the professional development in the designing process and implementation of educational programs using modern techniques and technologies, personnel assessment of the educational organization, development of internal education quality management systems. Seminars themes are designed for different levels of professional education.
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An annual conference and annual general meeting of the Asia- Pacific Network for Quality Assurance (APQN) were held in Hanoi (Vietnam) on March 7-8, 2014.

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The site visit of the AKKORK review team took place in the Moscow College of the Service sector No. 10 on 20-21 of January. During the visit, the independent assessment of educational programs was carried out in three programmes: the hairdresser, the tailor, the chef/confectioner, and the specialty – Production technology of the public catering.

Reviewers were a part of the AKKORK reviewer’s team from the employers’ associations of the OPORA ROSSII and Federation of the Restaurateurs and Hoteliers. These are the representatives of the Russian business of services sector, highly qualified specialists in the field of professional and administrative activity, who can assess quality of the students’ training from the point of view of requirements of the modern employer:

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AKKORK carried out an independent assessment on the education quality in the Public budgetary institution of the higher education "Khanty-Mansiysk State Medical Academy". During the site visit, the reviewers’ team visited clinical practice basis, held the interview with the students and teachers, assessed the training quality of the graduates and the overall satisfaction level with the educational process.

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