Survey Visit in Azerbaijan

Survey Visit in Azerbaijan

Baku, 29th May - 1st June 2012

 

From 29th to 31st May 2012 the project coordinator Alfredo Squarzoni, the project manager Angelo Musaio, Simone Ravaioli, contact person of the project partner CINECA and Guillermo Bernabeu of the University of Alicante, partner of the project, carried out a survey visit in Baku, Azerbaijan, and met the Azeri partners.

As in the survey visit in Kyrgyzstan, the main aim of the visit was to have a clear knowledge and understanding of the ‘state of the art’ of the quality assurance of study programmes in Azerbaijan and in particular of:

  • the required/available information and data for quality assurance of study programmes, at both Ministry and University level;
  • the methodologies and procedures of definition, collection, elaboration and presentation  of the  required information and data;
  • the responsibilities and facilities for the definition, collection, elaboration and presentation  of the required information and data;
  • the level of computerization of the required/available documentation.

In the first day the visitors met the officials of the Baku State University, in the second day those of the Azerbaijan Medical University and of the Qafqaz University, in the third day the academic and administrative staff of the Khazar University and the officials of the Odlar Yurdu University.

In all the meetings the project coordinator presented and commented the goal, the objectives and the workpackages and associated deliverables of the DoQuP project, while the representatives of the partner Universities presented their management, internal quality assurance and documentation systems. The meetings have been also the occasion to discuss the possible problems and solutions as for the implementation of the DoQuP project in Azerbaijan.

On 30th May the visitors met also the Azeri Deputy Minister of Education. After a short presentation of the project aims by the project coordinator, the Deputy Minister confirmed the high interest of his Ministry on the project and assured its cooperation for the project success.

On 1st June, the last day of visit, the visitors met again the academic and administrative staff of the Baku State University for an in-depth discussion on their documentation system and on the possible organization of the software for the online management of the information and data for the quality assurance of study programmes, the design and implementation of which constitute an important deliverable of the DoQuP project.  

The meetings have provided the visitors of a clear knowledge and understanding of the educational and national quality assurance systems in Azerbaijan and of the systems of internal quality assurance and documentation in the partner Universities.

Furthermore the meetings have been an important occasion for the team-building promotion among the Azeri partners.