INSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS OF INTEGRATED QUALITY ASSURANCE OF ENGINEERING STUDY PROGRAMS AT HEI USING ICT

Abstract

Informatization of Ukrainian higher education institutions is a key priority of the state education policy, one of the directions for improving HEI's IT infrastructure. The paper aims to develop an integrated quality assurance information system to enhance institutional aspects of study programs at higher education institutions. Therefore, there is an urgent need for all stakeholders to develop, at the university level, a service-oriented architecture to assure quality of higher education with mandatory elements, for example, student survey results, student ratings, university teachers’ rating, educational programs, results of uniqueness verification for scientific research and qualifying papers, review of educational programs for higher education applicants etc. This will allow us to unify the approaches to electronic resource management and accelerate the integration of multi-level HEI quality assurance resources into a single portal. The paper presents a quality assurance information system, which allows to process students’ feedback in order to provide HEI's authorities’ decision making