DOQUP – Documentation for Quality Assurance of Study Programmes (DOQUP)
Project objectives
The aim of DoQuP project is the definition and implementation of an on-line documentation system for the quality assurance (QA) of study programmes (SPs) in the partner countries (PCs), consistent with the European Standards and Guidelines (ESG) for internal QA of higher education institutions (HEI).
This aim will be pursued through the cooperation of all the project partners, national authorities included.
Wider objectives of the project are:
- to bring the QA process of SPs in PCs into line with the ESG for internal QA;
- to enhance quality of SPs in PCs and to increase their comparability in and among PCs and with SPs of EU, in order to allow all the interested parties to formulate an informed assessment of the educational process offered by SPs and to enhance mutual trust in the quality of SPs;
- to promote modernisation of higher education and to increase transparency of SPs in PCs, through an on-line management of information and data necessary to assure quality of SPs;
- to promote the accreditation of the on-line documentation system for the QA of SPs in PCs to be designed and implemented by the competent national authorities, in order to guarantee its dissemination among all the universities of the PCs and its sustainability.
Project duration
2011-2014
Project Budget
1.089.600,14 EUR (TUT budget 40577 EUR)
Organization
University of Genoa, Italy
Partners
Technological University of Tajikistan
Ministry of Education
Tajik National University
Tajik Institute for Entrepreneurship and Service
University of Genoa (project contractor)
CRUI - Conference of Italian University Rectors
Consorzio inter-universitario calcolo automatico italiano N.O.
Universitaet Duisburg - Essen
University of Alicante
Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
Baku State University
Khazar University
Azerbaijan Medical University
Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan
Odlar Yurdu University
Qafqaz University
Kazakh Leading Academy of Architecture and Civil Engineering
Kazakh "Ablai Khan" University for International Relations and World Languages
Kazakh National Technical University N.A. K.I.Satpayev
Eurasian National University N.A. L. Gumilyov
Independent Kazakhstan Agency for Quality Assurance in Education
National Center for Assessing Quality of Education
Ministry of Education and Science of Republic of Kazakhstan
Kyrgyz National University N.A. Jussup Balasagyn
Bishkek Academy of Finance and Economics
Education Network Association
Ministry of Education and Science of Kyrgyz Republic
Naryn State University
Project outcomes
Foremost, realization of the project established a MOU between the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tajikistan and the project consortium on recognition of education guidelines and standards in quality assurance of education. In addition, an agreement was signed by the project consortium to expand scientific and cultural collaboration and recognition of the DOQUP software online management platform. The realization of the project has contributed to establishment of staff unit for education quality assurance in the department of education of TUT, which still functions using the means and methodologies developed by the project. As a result of the project an interactive - electronic platform has been designed and created and has been used by the project beneficiaries. Below is the e- link to the interactive – electronic platform.