Meeting of the National Accreditation Board on June 27, 2018

A regular meeting of the National Accreditation Board chaired by Viktor Bolotov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Education, was held on June 27, 2018 at Gnessin Russian Academy of Music.

During the first part of the meeting peculiarities and specific character of independent quality assessment of educational programmes in the sphere of culture and art were discussed. A. Grigorieva, Head of the Department of Education and Science, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, G. Maiarovskaia, Rector of Gnessin Russian Academy of Music, Hillar Bauman, Secretary of the Estonian Quality Assessment Council for Higher Education, G. Motova, Director of the Guild of Experts in Higher Education, were the main speakers.

Representatives of the leading higher education institutions in the sphere of culture and art – A. Petrov, Artistic Director of Viktor Popov Academy of Choral Art, G. Zaslavskiy, Rector of Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS), A. Turgaev, Rector of Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Culture, N. Tarasevich, Vice-Rector of Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, Y. Karpov, Vice-Rector of Zhiganov Kazan State Conservatory – participated in the discussion. Following the results of the meeting the decision to publish articles in leading research journals was made. Proposals on improvement of systems of education quality evaluation in artistic higher education institutions were sent to the Ministry of Education and Science and the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

During the second part of the meeting the following materials were considered and decisions were made:

1) joint international accreditation of the educational programme of East China University of Science and Technology together with the Higher Education Evaluation Centre of the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, HEEC.

2) international public accreditation of the educational programmes of the institution of further professional education «Centre for Medical Sciences Education» and Ural State Medical University of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation.

3) public accreditation of the educational programmes of Stolypin Ulyanovsk State Agrarian University, Nizhni Tagil State Social and Pedagogical Institute - branch of Russian State Vocational Pedagogical University, Togliatti State University.

Joint international accreditation of the educational programme «Chemistry» of East China University of Science and Technology was held in terms of bilateral cooperation of the National Centre for Public Accreditation (NCPA) and the Higher Education Evaluation Centre of the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China (HEEC).

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