RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE PROBLEMS OF QUALITY

IN SPECIALISTS’ TRAINING

of Moscow State Institute of Steel and Alloys
(Technological University)

of the Federal Agency on Education

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES

Training and retraining of administrators and academic staff of educational institutions of various levels involved in the innovation projects on the problems of education quality is carried out at the Research Centre on 35 educational cycles at 7 chairs:

• Chair of quality management in higher education;

• Chair of educational measurement;

• Chair of psychological-pedagogical and socio-philosophical fundamentals of education;

• Chair of new technologies of active education;

• Chair of system research of education;

• Chair of quality systems in educational institutions of general education.

Research Centre concludes cooperation contracts with educational institutions and education management bodies.

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

are carried out by three types of research subdivisions:

Sectors:

• Quality management of higher education;

• Humanization of education;

• Comparative research of higher education systems.

Research groups:

• Legal problems of education;

• Higher metallurgical education;

• History and quality of teacher training education.

Provisional research groups on the projects being carried out

WITHIN THE STRUCTURE OF THE RESEARCH CENTRE
THE FOLLOWING SUBDIVISIONS ARE FUNCTIONING:

• graduate school;

• doctorate school;

• doctors’ and candidates’ dissertations defence councils.

GOALS OF FOUNDATION:

To meet the demands of higher education of the country in conducting and coordinating systematic research, design and practical implementation of the results aimed at raising the quality of higher education in the country

ESTABLISHED

as a research laboratory in September 1986

GOT

the status of the juridical person in April 1988

GOT

the status of the State Research Institution in November 1999

The Charter

currently in force approved by the founder – Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation on November 26, 1999

General guidance

and performance assessment are carried out by the Academic Council of the Research Centre

MAIN TYPES OF ACTIVITES:

• Research activities on the problems of higher and continuing education quality (following orders, plans and research programmes of the Russian Federation Ministry of Education and within the framework of the Federal Programme of Educational Development in Russia), including higher education reforms following the Bologna process;

• Education activities on training and retraining of administrators and academic staff within the framework of complex educational-professional programme “Quality of Higher and Continuing Professional Education” and in the field of the Bologna process;

• Training and Attestation of researchers of top qualification in the field of education quality and its improvement (8 scientific specialities);

• Preparing and conducting annual all-Russia conferences, symposia, seminars on urgent problems of education quality and the Bologna process;

• Publishing and circulation of research, instructional and methodical materials on the problems of education quality;

• Introduction of modern models and technologies of quality assurance and education quality management in higher and other educational institutions, and in federal, branch and regional education management bodies.

RESEARCH CONTACTS

Research Centre For the Problems of Quality in Specialists’ Training being a multi-functional research and educational institution of Russia organizes, coordinates and undertakes joint activities in the field of quality improvement of higher and continuing education:

• on the basis of cooperation agreements with 80 higher educational institutions and institutions for academic staff training, on the base of which joint research and educational subdivisions and branch offices of the Research Centre are functioning in more than 35 Russian cities;

• with teaching-methodic unions of Russian higher educational institutions;

• with research and higher educational institutions of Byelorussia, Ukraine, Armenia, Kasakhstan, Kirgyizia, Tadjikistan;

• with UNESCO CEPES;

• Research Centre is member of two international organizations : EURASHE and INQAAHE.

OUR ADDRESS: 4, Ismailovskoe shosse Moscow, 105318, Russian Federation

Tel. (+8-499) 369-42-83, 369-18-30 Fax (+8-499) 369-58-13
E-mail: rc@rc.edu.ru