Institute of Industrial and Business Technologies
Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies

Cooperation with foreign and domestic partners in development of the internal quality assurance system of higher education at NMAU

On February 11th-14th, 2020, within the implementation of the Erasmus+ project "Implementation of Education Quality Assurance system via cooperation of University-Business-Government in HEIs" (EDUQAS) 586109-EPP-1-2017-1-RO-EPPKA2-CBHE-SP, the representatives of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), the Technical University “Bergakademie Freiberg” (Germany), the Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics, the Lviv Polytechnic National University, the Donetsk State University of Management and the Institute of Higher Education of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine have visited the National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine.

                          

During the visit our guests have got acquainted with the internal quality assurance system of educational activity and quality of the higher education at NMAU that was significantly modernized during the active participation of our academy in this international project. Our partners performed the external assessment 2 out of 41 study programs offering for students at our academy: the Bachelor Program "Translation from the English Language" and the Master program "Metallurgical Processes for Production and Processing of Metals and Alloys".

The representatives of the NMAU, Prof. Oleg Potap, Assoc. Prof. Anton Ashkelyanetc, Assoc. Prof. Oleksandr Zhadanos and Assoc. Prof. Oksana Maksakova have presented the organizational structure of the internal quality assurance system of educational activities, main directions of collaboration with employers, informational-analytic system for the management of quality assurance processes and the system of questionnaire survey of students at NMAU.

Our partners, during the interview with teaching staff and students, have got the opportunity to learn the particularities of educational activities within the assessed study programs and to have got own impression about the quality of programs.

According to the agenda our guests have visited the leading industrial enterprises of our region: the plants of PJSC “Interpipe” and the design office of LLC “Danieli Heavy Machinery Engineering” where a significant number of NMAU graduates are employed. Our partners have noticed the effective and close cooperation with employers and the enhanced practical training of students that ensure the high professional competences of NMAU graduates.

The National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine expresses the sincere gratitude to our domestic and international partners for a valuable advices and exchange with experience in ensuring the quality of higher education. The received recommendations will be surely taken into account with further development of the internal quality assurance system of higher education at NMAU.

                              

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