External Quality Assurance expert of Ministry of Education visited Qafqaz University.
26 December, 2011
Pratt Institute Executive Director of Strategic
Planning Dr. Vladimir Briller together with expert for higher education
visited Qafqaz University. The Meeting was launched with the general
information about university. General information followed questions and
answer session about university governance specifically assignment
process of top administration, financial decision making, curricular
reforms. Dr.Briller mentioned general improvement of universities from
the governance point of view. As external expert based on his previous
experience now universities are having common issues rather than
individual. Another important point that Dr. Briller enunciated that if
the universities want to succeed with modern education they need to take
into consideration labor market needs and current trends while
designing curriculum. Experts mention importance of curricular
competence and expressed potential of Azerbaijan higher education
institution. As an example Dr. Briller talked about World class
universities and the reasons why those universities are best. Reason is
they have best academic staff, best students, best governance and best
technical support.
