DEVELOPMENT OF STUDY PROGRAMS IN
UNIVERSITY OF PRISHTINA/KOSOVO
Process of development of study programs follows this steps
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Initiator/Professor
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Head of Department
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Study committee of Department
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Faculty Board
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Rectorate/Office for Academic Development/ Senate
FINAL DECISION-
KOSOVO ACCREDITATION AGENCY
SELF EVALUATION REPORT IS A STANDARD REPORT DESIGNED BY ACCREDITATION AGENCY
TO BE FOLLOWED AND FILLED OUT BY ACADEMIC UNITS OF UNIVERSITY
CONTENT OF SELF EVALUATION REPORT
Brief description of the institution’s history
Study programs
• General information
• Regulations and procedures for the development/ reviewing and approval of
new curriculums
• The regulation on students evaluation and their progress during studies
•Regulations and procedures for drafting diploma thesis BA, MA and PhD (for
levels provided);
• Documents on planned legal relations (reports) between institutions and
students;
• Study program under evaluation
• Basic data for the study program
• Rationale of the program for the labor market (to be provided facts for the
labour market research);
• International comparability of the program;
• Group (the target) to whom the program is dedicated;
• Orientation of the study program according to the leading principles of the
institution (mission statement);
• The aim and profile of the study program (brief description of the programme/
7 – 10 sentences);
•Expected learning outcomes (to be numbered at least 7-10
competencies and qualifications, knowledge and skills);
• Relation between the theoretical and practical/ experimental part of
the study;
• ECTS calculation;
• Practical work – internship
• Research plan for the study program (s) under evaluation;
•Students registration and admission criteria;
• Overview of the program
HOW TO WRITE A MODULE?
• Description (name);
• Short description of the content (maximum 5 sentences);
• Expected learning aims and outcomes (5-7) (knowledge, skills and
competencies); Bloom theory
• teaching and learning methods;
•evaluation methods and passing criteria;
• concretization means/ IT;
• ratio between the theoretical and practical part of teaching;
• basic literature to be used in each module (one basic title and two
supplementary titles not older than 10 years).
Benjamin Bloom
(1913 – 1999)
Staff
Students
Quality Assurance
• Description of the internal quality assurance system;
• Institution’s regulations on programe’s quality assurance procedures;
•Procedures for reviewing study programs;
• Presentation of instruments for evaluation of program’s/ course quality
(questionnaires, surveys, focus groups, etc.);
• Mechanisms for the implementation of quality assurance measures;
• Follow up procedures for improvement and use of outcomes from previous
evaluations;
Space and Equipment
8. Research and International Co-operation
• the research plan or the strategy at the institutional and programme (s) level
under evaluation, as well as current projects and cooperation in the area of
research;
• the list with publications of the full time (FT) academic personnel and students
in the last three years in national and international scientific journals;
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• the participation of the full time (FT) academic staff in scientific conferences,
symposiums and seminars in the last three years;
• the number of projects for international cooperation in the area of teaching
and research (Tempus, Erasmus, etc.);
• the relation of research with teaching in the program (s) under evaluation
Financing Plan for the implementation of Expert Team recommendations (ET) from the
last accreditation procedure (s)
Appendices
•Syllabus;
• Work contract;
• Evaluation questionnaire;
• Diploma supplement;
• Form of student’s workload calculation/ ECTS;
• One CV of academic staff;
• Other relevant documents which further clarify data of the SER.
What after the preparation of Self
Evaluation Report?
September – Application in Kosovo accreditation Agency for the
Study Program
During the interim period, the Self Evaluation Report goes through
the filters of Academic Development Office (within Rectorate) and
to Agency of Accreditation
Agency of Accreditation invites external Experts (international
experts ) to make on site visit in academic unit involved , and assess
the Self Evaluation the report and real situation on the field.
Experts produce the External evaluation Report and make
recommendations for improvement
Based on the External Evaluation Report produced by
International Expert, State Council of Accreditation Agency
decides whether to approve the study program or not
State council is also consisted by two International members to
make impartial decision
The goal of accreditation is to ensure that
education provided by higher education
institutions meet acceptable level of quality
• Accreditation is a formal and transparent process of quality
control
• It is performed by an independent body, based on
internationally recognized defined standards, examines
whether institutions and/or programmes offered at university
level comply with minimum quality requirements.
• The accreditation process decides on the status and
recognition of institutions and academic programmes for a
certain period of time.
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Accreditation in the field of higher education guarantees to
society and to all involved stakeholders, the security that the
quality of teaching and learning meets the minimum
international standards.
At the same time, accreditation increases the transparency in
the increasingly complex offers of national and international
educational providers.
• Development of an effective study program is a continuous
and cyclic process.
• The process becomes more qualitative when it is performed :
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1. the evaluation of existing program
2.designing of an enhanced study program/or a new study
program
3. Implementation of a new /revised study program
4. Evaluation of the revised program.
The designing of a study program must not be seen
as the last end, excellence of the curriculum
development process, but it shall be seen more as
an essential step of continuous curriculum
development process
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