FUNCTIONING AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE SYSTEM OF ENSURING THE QUALITY OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION IN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS

Abstract

The article considers quality assurance system of higher education (internal quality assurance system) and educational activities at the higher education establishments as one of the components of the quality assurance system of higher education in Ukraine. The assurance of higher education system integrated into the European Higher Education Area and the European Research Area is one of the higher education system’s reforming goals in Ukraine. For the full functioning of the higher education internal quality assurance system at a higher education establishment, the paper defines the structures of the quality assurance system of educational activities and higher education, specifies the content of quality control procedures, and distributes areas of responsibility for the internal higher education quality assurance system functioning. Division of Monitoring the Quality of Education plays an essential role concentrating the functions of the quality assurance of higher education at the university level, in particular defining the subject areas of its activities and are aimed at solving specific and diverse tasks and issues of interaction between individual divisions of the higher education establishment, which require specific actions, planning and organizing quality audits, compliance audits and the effectiveness of structural divisions, analyzing monitoring studies results, preparing audit reports, conclusions, recommendations, etc. This function implementation is possible only in cooperation with all structural divisions of the higher education establishment, which are full-fledged elements of the internal quality assurance system of educational activities and higher education at the higher education establishment.