International evaluation of the programme 27.04.02 “Quality Assurance Management in Agriculture and Food Industry” delivered by Volga State University of Technology was held on June 23-24, 2016

International evaluation of the programme 27.04.02 “Quality Assurance Management in Agriculture and Food Industry” delivered by Volga State University of Technology was held on June 23-24, 2016.

The evaluation was conducted in the frameworks of an international ALIGN project “Achieving and checking the alignment between academic programmes and qualification frameworks” and was aimed to assess the programme on a correspondence with 2 indicators:
1. Review of the alignment of the academic programme
2. Review of quality assurance alignment

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An expert team consisted of 9 members including 3 European experts:

Andre Govaert – ALIGN expert, visiting professor at University of Leuven (Belgium)

Zbigniew Palka – ALIGN expert, professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Poland)

Durdica Dragojevic – CEENQA representative, expert advisor of the Department for International Cooperation, Agency for Science and Higher Education (Croatia)

Oksana Matveeva – Deputy Head of the Accreditation Office, National Centre for Public Accreditation

Evgeny Sharapov – Senior Researcher, Department of Innovations and Research Transfer, Volga State University of Technology

Maria Smolentseva – Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Volga State University of Technology

Vladislav Pylin – Member of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Elina Moon – observer, Russian Student Union, Master degree student at Higher School of Economics

Svetlana Ivanova – Master degree student, Volga State University of Technology

The site visit programme included meetings with:
- representatives of the University: working group of ALIGN project, teachers, specialists, responsible for the policy in the sphere of quality (Department of Licensing and Accreditation, Quality Management Centre);
- students and graduates of the educational programme.

Please see more information on the website of the Volga State University of Technology