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Teacher, ‘What does the phrase "Sisyphean toil" mean?’
Vovochka, ‘This means - useless work. For example, you learned a lesson, but you were not asked.’
For the National Quality Assurance Framework (NQAF) to carry out its mission, there have to be provided mechanisms of legal and institutional regulation of demand for qualifications of employees from the labour market and the supply of qualifications from a system of education and training, including the system of ensuring quality of qualifications and institutional procedures of recognition and certification of qualifications. The central elements of this system are occupational and educational standards and procedures of recognition/certification of earlier received trainings/qualifications.
The main state body for ensuring quality of education is the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science (Rosobrnadzor). Rosobrnadzor is a federal executive body that exercises control and supervision functions in the sphere of education and science, directly and through its subordinate organisations in cooperation with other federal executive bodies, executive authorities of the subjects of the Russian Federation, local governments, public associations and other organisations. The subordinate organisation of Rosobrnadzor is the Federal State Budgetary Institution "National Accreditation Agency in the field of education" (Rosakrdadagentstvo), which is intended for organisational, technical and analytical support of procedures for state accreditation of educational organisations within the framework of the authority of Rosobrnadzor.
According to Article 12 of the Federal Law on Education, the state regulation of educational activities is aimed at establishing uniform requirements for implementation of educational activities and procedures related to establishment and verification in compliance with these requirements of organisations engaged in educational activities.
State regulation of educational activities includes three areas:
- Licensing of educational activities;
- State accreditation of educational activities;
- State control (supervision) in the field of education.
Additional activities include independent assessment of education quality, professional and public accreditation, openness and accessibility of information on the Internet, monitoring of the education system.
Independent assessment of education quality is aimed at obtaining information about educational activities, quality of student training and implementation of study programmes.
Independent assessment of education quality is carried out by legal entities that perform specific types of such assessment.
The results of independent assessment of education quality do not entail the suspension or revocation of a license to conduct educational activities, the suspension of the state accreditation or deprivation of the state accreditation with respect to educational organisations.
Based on the results of independent assessment of education quality, it is possible to form the ratings of educational organisations and/or the implemented study programmes.
Independent assessment of education quality of organisations is conducted on such general criteria as openness and accessibility of information of educational organisations; comfort of conditions, in which educational activities are carried out; goodwill, politeness, competence of employees; satisfaction with the quality of education.
Independent assessment of education quality organized by public councils is conducted no more than once a year and at least once every three years.
Employers, their associations, and authorized organisations have the right to carry out professional and public accreditation of basic VET study professional programmes.
Professional and public accreditation represents recognition of quality and level of training of graduates, who have mastered study programmes in the specific organisation, meeting the requirements of the occupational standards and the labour market to experts, workers and employees of the corresponding profile. The professional and public accreditation is carried out on a voluntary basis and does not involve additional financial obligations of the state.
Monitoring of the education system represents systematic standardized observation of a condition of education and dynamics of changes of its results, conditions of educational activity implementation, the contingent of students, educational and non-learning achievements of students, professional achievements of educational organisations graduates, a condition of educational organisations network.
The education system monitoring is carried out by the federal public authorities and executive authorities of subjects of the Russian Federation and the local governments exercising control in education.
Analysis of the state and prospects of education development is subject to annual publication in the form of final (annual) reports and to placement on the Internet network on the official sites of the appropriate authorities.
The National Quality Assurance Framework of the Russian Federation was presented at the Regional International Seminar ‘The Role of Accreditation in Promoting Quality Assurance at HEIs’, Bishkek, 3-4 October, 2018.
Link to the presentation: https://www.academia.edu/37561784/National_Quality_Assurance_Framework_and_Accreditation_in_VET_and_HE._Russian_Federation
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