{"id":1481,"date":"2014-12-07T19:39:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T17:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/personalmobilitet\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2014-12-07T19:39:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T17:39:58","slug":"quality-conference-at-the-american-university-of-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/personalmobilitet\/2014\/12\/07\/quality-conference-at-the-american-university-of-armenia\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality conference at the american university of Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">On the 4th and 5th, I attended the quality conference \u00a0at the american university of Armenia. The conference was in armenian and english, but we got translators. The conference was organised by the\u00a0Anqa organisation\u00a0(http:\/\/www.anqa.am\/en\/).<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000\">After the welcome speech made by several people (prime minister, minister of education, president of Anqa, rector of university), there was a panel discussion on the following topic: the impact\u00a0of quality assurance in the development of higher education system: expectations and outcomes. \u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000\">Some of the topics of the conference are similar to what we discuss in Malm\u00f6 (life long learning, education connected to research, education that produces professionals needed by\u00a0the society,\u00a0and other topics). One of the differences is that in Armenia, they (Anqa) do not only evaluate the education programmes but the whole university (the teachers, the organisation, the facilities, the\u00a0research and other things). The universities get some kind of certification after they have performed the accreditation process.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1482\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1482\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/personalmobilitet\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_0684.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1482\" src=\"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/personalmobilitet\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_0684-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Quality conference in Yerevan\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/personalmobilitet\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_0684-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/personalmobilitet\/files\/2014\/12\/IMG_0684-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1482\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quality conference in Yerevan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><br style=\"color: #000000\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000\">Another main difference with Sweden is that Armenia is a post-soviet country where there are few companies, therefore it is difficult to have people from companies \u00a0or society interacting with the universities.\u00a0Also the feedback of the students to the education system is low because (according to Lilit who works with quality) students are afraid to give their own opinion. The general impression is that both the people working on Anqa and the university people work a lot with quality but the universities are a\u00a0bit detached from the \u00a0needs of the society and the students.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000\">During the conference I met several people, one teacher\u00a0working on economy who would like to come to Malm\u00f6 for staff exchange. Another person, the chancellor of the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8221;YEREVAN UNIVERSITY AFTER MOVSES KHORENATSY\u201d needs an external quality expert for peer reviewing their self evaluation. I may do it, they will check the formal requirements with the minister of education.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #000000\">I have also met a finish guy, Karl Holm, who is a Residence Twinning Advisor at\u00a0Finnish Education Evaluation Centre, he \u00a0will work with Anqa for 2 years. I got to talk swedish with him! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>After the conference me and Lilit went to a cafe and it was very very interesting to hear from her about Armenia and Yerevan, and the conditions they have lived the past 20 years.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 4th and 5th, I attended the quality conference \u00a0at the american university of Armenia. The conference was in armenian and english, but we got translators. 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