Renata Grinaite January 28th, 2014 CENTRE FOR QUALITY ASSESSMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION Renata Grinaite January 28th, 2014
WHO WE ARE Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education (SKVC) is an independent public agency established in 1995. The Centre was founded by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania as an expert institution.
WHAT WE DO The main function of the Centre is to assist HEI to assure quality and to constantly improve it. The Centre fulfils this function through: Assessment of the quality of higher education Assessment of the qualifications concerning higher education Provision of information on higher education systems and qualifications recognition
MY ROLE Together with my colleagues we coordinate 2 projects: Evaluation of study programmes; Descriptions of study fields. From 2011 I have coordinated 12 international expert teams in 15 different study fields: aerospace engineering, production engineering, tourism and leisure, business, management, literature, medicine, physics and so on.
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Lifelong learning programmes in Lithuania Comenius for schools Erasmus for higher education Leonardo da Vinci for vocational education and training Grundtvig for adult education
Comenius programme statistics In 2008-2011 Lithuanian schools provided approx. 280 applications for funding each year. In 2008-2011 approx. 95 provided applications received funding each year in the frame of this programme.
Erasmus programme statistics For example, one of the biggest universities (University of Vilnius) in Lithuania has sent 593 students abroad on the academic year of 2012-2013. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University has sent 493 students abroad in this period.
Leonardo da Vinci programme statistics Around 4000 vocational training specialists improved their knowledge participating in the projects. Approx. 5000 pupils were involved in vocational training mobility programmes. Around 600 business companies employees or graduates of the vocational training schools raised their competences around the EU. During the period of 2007-2013 Leonardo da Vinci programme received 22 mln. Euros and implemented over 1000 projects.
Vocational education and training 75 schools providing vocational education in 2012 (72 of them are state funded) 260 institutions have a right to provide vocational training not being professional schools by origin. Around 4000 pedagogical teachers (2000 of them teach a profession)
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