A new university cooperation experience was launched with the three-year national Tempus project, according to the Governance Reform priority, EACEA No. 35/2012, 6th call5/2012, 6th call.
GOVERN – Promoting autonomy and accountability: Developing a state-of-the-art University Education Management System to make effective changes in line with the Bologna.
The main objective is to encourage the application of the state-of-the-art management system for Armenia’s higher education institutions to promote structural changes in line with the Bologna agenda, thereby strengthening the autonomy and accountability of higher education institutions.
- The specific objectives aim to strengthen the autonomy and accountability of higher education institutions through:
• increasing the capacity of administrative staff for efficient changes in the management systemagement.
• the revision of legal (system level) and regulatory (level of higher education institutions) frameworks in accordance with the action lines of the Bologna Process.
• the creation of a state-of-the-art management system for universities by reviewing approaches to system change: strategic, economic and human resources management.
• the introduction of work-based approaches to educational provision for students: The European credit accumulation and transfer system and the management of academic programmes to ensure quality and promote student mobility.
- The results/products of the principles include:
• Increasing the capacities of middle and top levels of the administration to facilitate the implementation of the Bologna Process action lines.
• New legal frameworks (beyond the system) and regulatory frameworks (level of higher education institutions) in line with the action lines of the Bologna Process.
• State-of-the-art management system based on new approaches to strategic and structural management, budget allocation, human resources management.elle risorse umane.
• Indicators and criteria for academic programmes and the implementation of student mobility activities.
•New approaches to academic management programmes, business administration and archiving (installation of the student portal and student information management system).
The higher education institutions involved come from a single country in the Commonwealth of Independent States – Armenia. This will allow an in-depth understanding of the development and customisation needs of the systems for the specific priorities of the country and its institutions.
For more information, please contact jelena.mazaj@cesie.org.
