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Mospan N. ORGANIZATIONAL AND MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION QUALITY ASSURANCE IN THE EU

Mospan Nataliya, PhD, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of English Philology and Translation Department, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, 13-b Tymoshenko Str., 04212 Kyiv, Ukraine, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

https://doi.org/10.28925/2078-1687.2017.2.4953

Abstract

The article presents the features of the organizational and management structure of quality assurance of higher education in the EU. Besides, the analysis of the quality assurance system in Europe, namely its external and internal organs is in the center of attention. External mechanisms include education quality assurance regulators at the EU and the EHEA level. Internal mechanisms are made up of national regulators of education quality assurance at the level of Member States and the EHEA and quality control departments within HEIs. It was concluded that the organizational and administrative structure adjustment of standards and quality assurance of education in the EU subject to their own hierarchy, where each mechanisms interact to ensure the quality of the various higher education systems. This system of organizational and management structures regulation of standards and quality assurance of education in the EU allows to implement universe standards of quality assurance in higher education in all EU Member States and countries in the EHEA. However, despite the establishment of relatively universe shape of quality assurance system, there are significant differences in approaches to the system at the national level.

Keywords:  external quality assurance;  higher education;  internal quality assurance;  quality assurance system;  the EU.

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