Higher education quality in war conditions: indicators and research perspectives
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https://doi.org/10.24917/ycee.9617Keywords:
higher education, higher education institution, higher education quality indicators, higher education quality criteria, higher education qualityAbstract
The article is devoted to the problem of higher education quality ensuring in the conditions of war. The purpose of the article is to identify indicators of higher education quality and to determine the prospects of sociological research on higher education quality using these indicators (in particular, in war conditions). The results of an online survey conducted by “Info Sapiens” on behalf of the School of Political Analytics of the National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” reveal the strengths and weaknesses of higher education quality assurance in Ukraine during the full-scale invasion of Russia. It is noted the loss of students’ motivation, the decrease in the professors’ demands, the lack of personalized “professor-student” communication, and the lack of understanding by the students of the importance and necessity of such communication, which, according to the author, are certain markers of a decrease in quality.
The quality criteria of higher education are analyzed, set out in “Standards and recommendations for quality assurance in the European area of higher education”, as well as developed by the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance (Ukraine). On this basis, the author derives key indicators of higher education quality, which can be used when conducting sociological research on the relevant issues.
Finding out whether the current decline in higher education quality is critical, what consequences it may lead to in the future, whether the situation should not worsen, etc., requires in-depth analysis and complex sociological research (including, using qualitative methodology), using indicators proposed in the article.
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