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Osiguranje kvaliteta u procesu univerzitetske kontinuirane edukacije
Quality Assurance within the Process of Continuous University Education

Author(s): Emina Alimanović-Halilović, Maida Todić-Rakanović, Emina Nakaš-Ićindić, Zulfo Godinjak, Bakir Mehić, Meliha Lekić
Subject(s): Education
Published by: Univerzitet u Sarajevu
Keywords: the continued education; quality assurance; the process of certifying

Summary/Abstract: Academic personnel’s Professional and scientific training is a continuous process, which does not end by having finished studies of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd cycles. Academic personnel, in compliance with the Law on Higher Education, have right and obligation, during the course of their career, to continually follow the development of science and have professional training due to maintaining and enhancing quality of their work. The continuous education encompasses a variety of educational and scientific activities that have propose to maintain, develop or increase knowledge, skills and professional achievements of the academic community’s members. The appropriate authority is performing quality assessment of the continuous education (programme’s certifying). The continuous education programme’s organizer must have a developed system of organized gathering’s evaluation (attendance sheets, educational materials, in some cases attendees knowledge checking test, system for documentation preserving) and other issues that are highly important for programme’s certification. Basic elements for continuous education’s programme certifying are: 1. Does the programme make attendees’ knowledge and abilities enhancement; 2. Is the programme based on cutting edge knowledge and achievements in science and profession; 3. Does the programme make improvements within the scientific and professional activities; 4. Is clearly defined topic, the sort of contiguous education, contents, work hours, lecturers, references, programme’s duration and is the target group included. For the process of certification of specific programmes of continuous education, the other elements, significant for such programme, are evaluated. The paper will present our experience in implementing and certifying programmes of continuous education at the Faculty of Medicine, university of Sarajevo.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 05
  • Page Range: 35-50
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Bosnian