QUALITY ASSURANCE OF HIGHER EDUCATION AS A PRIORITY DETERMINANTS OF FORMATION INNOVATIVE SOCIETY IN UKRAINE Cover Image

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QUALITY ASSURANCE OF HIGHER EDUCATION AS A PRIORITY DETERMINANTS OF FORMATION INNOVATIVE SOCIETY IN UKRAINE

Author(s): Galina Pavlivna Klimova
Subject(s): Higher Education
Published by: Національний юридичний університет імені Ярослава Мудрого
Keywords: innovation;innovative development; innovative society; innovative system; higher education; quality of higher education; quality of higher education building; the quality of the process of higher educ

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the features of the innovative type of social development and reveals the essence of an innovative society. The conditions of its formation. Particular attention is given to the quality of higher education. We study the system of higher education quality: quality of higher education building, the quality of the process of higher education and quality results of higher education. Different approaches to ensure the quality of higher education as a prerequisite for becoming an innovative society in Ukraine.Critical to the innovative development of higher education Ukraine should solve the problem of quality assurance. Its review should be carried out in the context of the Bologna Process, to which Ukraine was in 2005. Being a member of the Bologna process, Ukraine has committed to work to bring the quality of national education in line with European standards and harmonization of legal and regulatory changes in higher education according to the standards and recommendations of the European higher education.The real change in the quality assurance of higher education institutions of higher education must take place with the implementation of the Law «On higher education», according to which the defined quality assurance system of higher education, which consists of: 1) system of universities as educational activities and quality of higher education (system of internal quality assurance); 2) a system of external quality assurance of higher education institutions and quality assurance; 3) quality assurance system of the National Agency for Quality Assurance in higher education institutions and independent assessment and quality assurance. Effective tool to ensure the quality of higher education in Ukraine serve European and national qualifications framework, including Qualifications Frame- work European Higher Education Area (2005), the European Qualifications Framework for lifelong learning (2003), the National Qualifications Framework (2011) and the implementation of internal and external quality assurance in accordance with the standards and guidelines for quality Assurance in the European higher education area. Thus, innovative society marks a transition from a society based on industrial technologies to society, the basic content of which is innovation. It connects humanity with innovations its future fate, seeing them as the main source of social needs and the most important means of solving practical and spiritual problems. One of the most important conditions for innovative development of Ukrainian society is quality assurance, to ensure which requires implementation of competency approach to the analysis of the quality of higher education, the implementation of complex tools of internal and external quality assurance in accordance with the standards and recommendations of the European Higher Education as a basis for the integration of the national system of quality assurance in the European system of assessment of learning outcomes of higher education applicants.