Exchange programme 2013

The director of the National Centre for Public Accreditation prof. Vladimir G. Navodnov participated in the exchange programme, which was initiated by the Asia-Pacific Quality Network from March 25 to April 6 2013.

As part of the exchange programme the hosting organization held a number of meetings with the director and staff of Shanghai Education Evaluation Institute.

From May 10 to May 20 the NCPA took a return visit of Dr. Hui Feng, the vice-president of SEEI. The exchange programme was held with the financial support of the Government of China.

alt  alt  alt 

During such a short period Dr.Feng managed to study the Guidelines, Standards and Criteria for external reviews of study programmes of the NCPA, to participate as an observer in the external review panels at two universities: Volga State University of Technology (Yoshkar-Ola) and University of Management “TISBI” (Kazan). Dr. Feng appreciated the NCPA’s accreditation procedure and stressed that the standards and criteria would be translated into Chinese and further would be partially used during institutional accreditation by SEEI.

The vice-president also visited two HEIs: Higher School of Folk Arts and Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Technology (former Technical University). Both universities gave a brief description of their unique histories, educational structures, forms of management and research. Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Technology presented its internal quality management system.

alt  alt 

The visits confirmed that Russia and China have a lot in common in the field of quality assurance. The relationship will continue.

As a result of both visits an agreement on cooperation between the National Centre for Public Accreditation and the Shanghai Education Evaluation Institute was signed.

 

alt  alt