Survey Visit in Tajikistan and Kazakhstan

Survey Visit in Tajikistan and Kazakhstan

Dushanbe (Tajikistan) and Almaty (Kazakhstan), 18th – 22nd June 2012

 

From 18th to 22nd June 2012 the project coordinator Alfredo Squarzoni, the project manager Angelo Musaio and Eva Jankovichova of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, partner of the project, carried out a survey visit in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, and Almaty, Kazakhstan, and met the Tajik and Kazakh partners.

As in the previous survey visits, 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 Tajikistan 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;

and an in-depth knowledge of the documentation system of information and data for quality assurance of study programmes in the Kazakh Universities.

In the first day of the visit in Dushanbe the visitors met the academic and administrative staff of the Technological University of Tajikistan, in the second day the officials of the Tajik National University and of the Tajik Institute of Entrepreneurship and Services.

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 Tajikistan.

On 19th June the visitors met also the Tajik Minister of Education. After a short presentation of the project aims by the project coordinator, the Minister confirmed the high interest of his Ministry on the project and assured its involvement and cooperation for the project success.

On 21st June the visitors met the academic and administrative staff of the Kazakh National Technical University n.a. K.I.Satpayev, the day after the officials of the Kazakh Ablai Khan University for International Relations and World Languages and of the Kazakh Leading Academy of Architecture and Civil Engineering. These meetings were particularly devoted to an in-depth analysis of the DoQuP objectives and an in-depth understanding of the systems of documentation of the students’ data in the different partner Universities.

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

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