Visit of Russian universities September 25 – October 3, 2014
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Team 1 (Saint-Petersburg – Nalchik – Moscow) Coordinator: Elena Horska |
Team 2 (Moscow – Kazan – Yoshkar-Ola – Moscow) Coordinator: Josep Griffol |
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25 September 2014 (Thursday) |
Arrival to Saint-Petersburg Sightseeing in Saint-Petersburg |
Arrival to Kazan Flight Moscow - Kazan |
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26 September 2014 (Friday) |
Visiting activities (6 hours) in Saint-Petersburg State Agrarian University |
Visiting activities (6 hours) at Kazan State Agrarian University Kazan sightseeing |
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27 September 2014 (Saturday) |
Visiting activities (3 hours) in Saint-Petersburg State Agrarian University Travel Saint-Petersburg (15.20) – Mineral'nyye Vody (18.40) by plane Mineral'nyye Vody – Nalchik by bus |
Visiting activities (3 hours) in Kazan State Agrarian University Sightseeing in Kazan Travel Kazan – Yoshkar-Ola by bus, departure 15:30 |
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28 September 2014 (Sunday) |
Visiting activities (3 hours) in Kabardino-Balkarian State Agrarian University Nalchik Sightseeing |
Visiting activities (3 hours) in Mari State University Mari sightseeing |
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29 September 2014 (Monday) |
Visiting activities (6 hours) in Kabardino-Balkarian State Agrarian University Sightseeing in Nalchik |
Visiting activities (6 hours) in Mari State University
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30 September 2014 (Tuesday) |
Travel Nalchik (15.10) – Moscow (17.30) by plane |
Travel Yoshkar-Ola – Kazan by bus or taxi Travel Kazan – Moscow by plane |
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1 October 2014 (Wednesday) |
Visiting activities (6 hours) in Russian State Agrarian University – Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy Sightseeing in Moscow |
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2 October 2014 (Thursday) |
Visiting activities in Russian State Agrarian University – Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy. Final meeting and workshop |
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3 October 2014 (Friday) |
Departure from Moscow
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Proposal:
Guidelines to prepare the EU partners visits to Russian Higher Education Institutions
According the aim of the project, the visits of EU partners to Russian Higher Education Institutions should promote:
- Mutual learning on the quality and quality assurance mechanisms for Higher Education Institutions providing study programmes in the field of Agriculture and related sciences.
- Collection of good practices from Russian and EU partners on quality assurance and quality enhancement.
- Exploring priorities for future developments in quality assurance end quality enhancement.
The visits will be organized in cooperation with the Russian partners and it should promote the participation of a significant representation of EU partner institutions.
In principle, there will be a single. The visits can be organised under two different options:
- A single team visits all partners. According the partners profile and its representatives, the team is going to be composed by academic staff and experts in QA.
- There are two teams: one team for St. Petersburg, Kabardino and ending in Moscow and a second team for Kazan, Mari and ending in Moscow
The visit is expected to be organized around 4 main activities
- Learning about the Russian HE institution
- Benchmarking activity of study programmes.
- Dialogues on internal quality assurance strategies.
- Exploring the future of external quality assurance.
Those activities should be developed in visits that should be no longer than one day and a half. Excluding transportation and preparatory activities, the time devoted to meetings (including the tour of facilities) should not exceed 9 hours. 6 hours in the first day and 3 for the second day.
The topics and questions to be treated in each of those activities is not fixed in all its content, but the following tables suggest some relevant issues and possible interested persons to be invited.
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Learning about the Russian HE institution. Time devoted to this activity could be longer than a welcome and an overview of the institution, that’s why it is recommended to conduct the tour of facilities at the end of the first day. |
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Participants from the Russian partner |
Content of the activity |
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To be proposed by the Russian partner |
General presentation of the Faculty and the university. Tour of facilities |
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Benchmarking activity of study programmes. Time devoted to this activity: 2 hours. |
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Participants from the Russian partner |
Content of the activity |
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To be proposed by the Russian partner, but it is recommended to invite the study programme coordinators |
In this activity, it is expected to know how programmes are organized in the visited Russian HE Institution. Russian HE institutions are encouraged to reflect on: What are the good educational practices in their institution? Considering:
What are the current challenges from the point of view of the programme coordinators?
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Dialogues on internal QA strategies Time devoted to this activity: 4 hours. |
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Participants from the Russian partner |
Content of the activity |
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To be proposed by the Russian partner, but it is recommended to invite, managers of the institution, teachers, students and representatives from the professional sector. In this respect it is suggested to have different audiences for these four groups.
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In this activity, it is expected to know what the priorities on quality assurance and quality enhancement are. This is done according different perspectives.
In order to facilitate the dialogues the participants should be aware of the Part 1 of the ESG. For students and representatives from the professional sector, the dialogue will be concentrated in some of points of the ESG:
With the managers: there is a general analysis of the ESG.
With the teachers:
With the students:
With the representatives of the labour market:
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Exploring the future of external quality assurance. Time devoted to this activity: 2 hours. |
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Participants from the Russian partner |
Content of the activity |
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To be proposed by the Russian partner |
This activity is addressed to explore expectations on external QA according.
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At the end of each visit the EU partners will summarise lessons learned in order to compile a report of the whole activity and to feedback the Russian partners.
The report of the EU partner visits to Russian partner institutions will contain the following chapters:
- General information about the activity: participants, visited institutions, dates, etc…
- Lessons learned from the benchmarking activities.
- Main ideas discussed during the dialogues on internal QA
- Outcomes of the exploration on the future of external QA
It is important to progress in the elaboration of this report after each visited institution, in order to be able to finalise the report of the whole activity at the end of the tour.
