Professional accreditation of engineering programmes and EUR-ACE labels in Russia

Author

Pokholkov, Yu.P. ; Gerasimov, S.I.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Manage. & Technol. in Higher Professional Educ., Tomsk Polytech. Univ., Tomsk, Russia

fYear

2013

fDate

25-27 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

561

Lastpage

564

Abstract

Today the process of accreditation of educational programs is widely recognized as the most efficient factor to improve the quality of education. It is crucial to develop at universities systems of continuous programs improvement through an independent external accreditation of programs by national and international professional community. The formal outcome of an external examination is regarded as the credibility to the program from graduates´ consumers, and the main result is a real quality improvement of educational programs.

Keywords

accreditation; educational courses; educational institutions; engineering education; EUR-ACE labels; Russia; continuous programs improvement; education quality; educational programs; engineering programmes; independent external accreditation; international professional community; national professional community; professional accreditation; program credibility; universities systems; Accreditation; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Engineering education; Standards; Training; accreditation of educational program; engineering education;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kazan

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICL.2013.6644653

Filename

6644653