Establishment of a General Committee with inclusion of About 2 years considering Ministry of Education key stakeholders and international experts to revise the adoption and Science, newly legal framework, including definitions of such major recruited staff for the concepts for the system as quality, quality assurance, TNQAATE quality culture System-wide awareness raising on QA issues On-going Ministry of Education and Science, newly recruited staff for the TNQAATE Develop charter and other regulatory documents for the 2 months (might take General Committee newly to-be-established QA agency (Tajikistan National longer if we consider its Quality Assurance Agency for Tertiary Education: adoption by the TNQAATE) Government) Establishment of TNQAATE Once the Charter and the TJ government regulatory documents are adopted Development of an operational manual for the TNQAATE 3 months TNQAATE and the General Committee Training of the TNQAATE staff on operationalization of the 2-3 weeks of intensive International and local agency training with on-going experts recommendations Develop an operational manual for internal quality 3 months TNQAATE and the assurance units for HEIs and programs General Committee, international experts Capacity building for ministries, the newly established 2-3 weeks of intensive International and local agency and HEIs on external and internal quality training with on-going experts assurance tools recommendations Support to HEIs to establish and operationalize the IQAs About 8 months TNQAATE along with the international and local experts Development of procedures, standards and evaluation About 1 year TNQAATE along with approaches to institutional and programme accreditation the international and local experts set up committees for institutional and programme accreditation standards development with involvement of international experts set up a committee to develop the procedures and respective regulatory documents with involvement of international experts benchmarking of criteria and procedures against best practices ensure involvement of all the key stakeholders in the development process through workshops, discussions, circulations of drafts, etc. refine the drafts after collecting the opinions of the stakeholders pilot the developed procedures and standards at 5 HEIs and 5 programme levels finalize through refinement based on the pilot results Adoption of the standards and procedures by the
Establishment of a General Committee with inclusion of key stakeholders and international experts to revise the legal framework, including definitions of such major concepts for the system as quality, quality assurance, quality culture About 2 years considering adoption Ministry of Education and Science, newly recruited staff for the TNQAATE System-wide awareness raising on QA issues On-going Ministry of Education and Science, newly recruited staff for the TNQAATE Develop charter and other regulatory documents for the newly to-be-established QA agency (Tajikistan National Quality Assurance Agency for Tertiary Education: TNQAATE) 2 months (might take longer if we consider its adoption by the Government) General Committee Establishment of TNQAATE Once the Charter and the regulatory documents are adopted TJ government Development of an operational manual for the TNQAATE 3 months TNQAATE and the General Committee Training of the TNQAATE staff on operationalization of the agency 2-3 weeks of intensive training with on-going recommendations International and local experts Develop an operational manual for internal quality assurance units for HEIs and programs 3 months TNQAATE and the General Committee, international experts Capacity building for ministries, the newly established agency and HEIs on external and internal quality assurance tools 2-3 weeks of intensive training with on-going recommendations International and local experts Support to HEIs to establish and operationalize the IQAs About 8 months TNQAATE along with the international and local experts Development of procedures, standards and evaluation approaches to institutional and programme accreditation set up committees for institutional and programme accreditation standards development with involvement of international experts set up a committee to develop the procedures and respective regulatory documents with involvement of international experts benchmarking of criteria and procedures against best practices ensure involvement of all the key stakeholders in the development process through workshops, discussions, circulations of drafts, etc. refine the drafts after collecting the opinions of the stakeholders pilot the developed procedures and standards at 5 HEIs and 5 programme levels finalize through refinement based on the pilot results Adoption of the standards and procedures by the About 1 year TNQAATE along with the international and local experts
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