Iskustva i praksa Mašinskog fakulteta u primjeni postupaka internog i eksternog vrednovanja kvaliteta
Experience and Practice of Internal and External Quality Assessment Procedure at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Summary/Abstract: On the basis of the European Standards and Guidelines for the quality assurance in the EHEA, the regulations from the Framework Law on Higher Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo Canton Law on Higher Education, and citations from the literature available on quality assurance and practice introduced at the universities in EHEA, it can be concluded that the procedures of internal and external quality assessment, together make the key and compulsory element of what today is an obligatory, systematic approach to quality assurance and management in higher education. This paper contains terminological and content-related distinction of notions of internal and external quality assessment, as well as of evaluation and accreditation. It presents different roles and purposes of implementation of internal and external quality assessment procedures, which at the same time provide the reasons of why the implementation of quality assessment procedures nowadays make an inherent part of academic life at the majority of universities in the EHEA and elsewhere. Through the example of practice by the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in implementation of internal and external quality assessment procedures, the faculty’s progress in the field is presented. It is also pointed out that there is a need of further engagement at different levels with the aim of adequate and purposeful fulfilment of legal and European demands in the field of quality assurance, which is the vital aspect of the higher education reforms in accordance with the Bologna principles.

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