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Higher Education Quality Assurance System: the Experience of Finland

Published:2023 Issue:3 (184) Volume: Page:75-84
ISSN:2227-2747
Container-title:Education and Pedagogical Sciences
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Author:

Zayachuk Julia^ORCID, ,Dziamko Mariya^ORCID,

Abstract

The article analyses higher education quality assurance system in Finland, emphasizes the relevance of studying the Finnish experience for Ukraine, which is currently reforming its higher education in extremely difficult conditions. It has been shown that the educational institutions are primarily responsible for quality assurance in Finland. The role of the Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council has been shown and analysed. It has been noted that it is an independent expert body whose basic duty is to develop procedures for evaluating educational programs in higher education institutions throughout the country. It has been emphasized that the main goal of evaluation in Finland is not the need to find shortcomings in the work of a higher education institution, but the opportunity to help it in the further development. It has been shown the features and the main stages of one of the elements of the national system of quality assurance of higher education, that is accreditation of educational programs. It has been noted that in Finland it is interpreted as a process of public recognition or registration of educational programs that meet certain standards and criteria. The obtained theoretical propositions have been supplemented with empirical data from the results of interviews of students at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, participants of the Erasmus+ academic mobility programme in Finnish universities, namely the University of Turku and the University of Jyväskylä.

Publisher

Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University

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