Our experience in implementation EQUIS accreditation system: importance and lesson learned Maks Tajnikar

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Our experience in implementation EQUIS
accreditation system importance and lesson
learnedMaks Tajnikar
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Late 90

• Realizing the Principles of the Bologna
  Declaration
• Implementation EQUIS accreditation system

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Starting points

• Global economy international school
• Efficient school
• More knowledge in less time
• Shortening and extending the period of study
  (LLL)
• A school competing for students and supporting
  the economy
• Highlighting special features due to competition
• Student can create their own possibilities

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Main Goals of the Bolognia Declaration

• Higher education system with two main cycles
  (undergraduate/graduate)
• Introduction of the European Credit Transfer
  System (ECTS)
• Promoting student and teacher mobility
• Taking part in quality assurance
• Promoting European dimensions in higher education
  programs

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Does a shorter period of study lower our quality?
No!

• Good secondary-school background knowledge
• New teaching techniques
• Cleaning up course content
• Lifelong learning
• From research into classrooms as soon as possible

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What is a good school according to the Bologna
Declaration?

• Many teachers
• A large number of elective subjects
• Opportunity to choose subjects and professors
• At least partially in English
• Many academic publications
• Many professors from abroad
• Many foreign students
• Foreign accreditation
• Many cooperation agreements with other schools
• Distinguished graduates
• As much funding as possible from business
• Career center, international center, teaching
  center, PR, friendly administration and an Alumni
  Club
• An Internet site with all the information

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Strategic Guidelines For The Development

• Vision and mission
• (commitment, organizational culture)
• FELU's Internationalisation
• FELU's Assurance of high quality standards
• FELU's Market orientation
• FELU's Excellence in organisation
• FELU's Links with the corporate world

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Strategic Guidelines For The Development

• FELU's Internationalization
• Vice dean for international affairs
• International office
• Students exchange
• Programs in English
• Joint and double degree programs
• International conferences
• Foreign professors
• International cooperation
• International research
• International accreditation

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Strategic Guidelines For The Development

• FELU's Assurance of high quality standards
• Teachers development center
• Steering committees
• Students organization
• University of Ljubljana (committee for quality)
• New programs (checking competencies of school,
  programs and courses)
• Tree quality loops
• Students questioner
• Steering committees
• External evaluations of exams

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Strategic Guidelines For The Development

• FELU's Market orientation
• Center for management development and training
  (CISEF)
• Sales department
• Defining the target market
• Europe
• Balkan
• India
• ?
• New facilities and equipment
• Donations

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Strategic Guidelines For The Development

• FELU's Excellence in organisation
• Career center (CERŠ)
• Center for management development and training
  (CISEF)
• International office
• Teachers development center (PEC)
• PR
• Friendly administration
• Alumni Club
• An Internet site with all the information
• Decentralization
• Employment of faculty and their development
• Remuneration (Rules of Salaries)
• Competition clause

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Strategic Guidelines For The Development

• FELU's Links with the corporate world
• Business Advisory Board
• Steering Committees (development of new programs,
  quality control)
• Alumni club
• Center for management development and training
  (CISEF)
• Quality control
• Designing new program donation
• Running school
• Different kind of events

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Process of Preparing New Academic Programs at the
Faculty of Economics
2000
Benchmarking study Preparation of the European
Management Pilot Program
2002
Preparation of programs within individual
departments Criterion International
comparability
Fall 2004
Submitting 14 restructured programs (2
undergraduate and 12 masters) to the University
of Ljubljana and the Higher Education Agency
December 2004
Approval of the RS Higher Education
Council Accredited 2 new 1st-cycle
(undergraduate) and 12 new 2nd-cycle (masters)
programs
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Process of Preparing New Academic Programs at the
Faculty of Economics
October 2005

• Started implementing
• 1st year of the new university first-cycle
  (undergraduate) program at the UNIVERSITY SCHOOL
  OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
• 1st year of the new higher education professional
  first-cycle (undergraduate) program of the
  BUSINESS SCHOOL
• 1st years of 12 new second-cycle (masters)
  programs

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UNIVERSITY
3 yrs
Undergraduate thesis 12 ECTS
MBA, Executive Education, Open Management Short
Courses, In-company Courses, Professional
events (CISEF)
Experience 16 ECTS TOTAL 180 ECTS
TOTAL 180 ECTS
SKUPAJ 180 ECTS
Experience
90 ECTS
2 yrs
Masters thesis 30 ECTS
Doctoral dissertation 180 ECTS
1 yr
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EQUIS accreditation

• 11 October 2007 FELU received the global EQUIS
  quality accreditation status which is a result of
  excellence in all activities
• creation of a learning environment,
• teaching,
• attention to student development,
• advising,
• research,
• process organization,
• high level of international involvement and
• connections with the business world.