The Twinning project implemented the fourth mock evaluation of selected study programmes under the Activity 3.7 Undertake a mock accreditation at each pilot university for a study program in a priority area during the mission that lasted from 2 to 7 December 2019.     

The mission was implemented by Ms. Jolanta Silka, Head of Agency for Quality in Higher Education at Academic Information Center of Latvia and Mr. Jean-Marc Planeix, Professor of Strasbourg University of France. 

The purpose of the mission was to perform a mock evaluation of Chemical Engineering study programme in four pilot universities of the Twinning project – Baku State University (BSU), Azerbaijan Oil and Industry University (ASOIU), Baku Engineering University (BEU) and Sumgait State University (SSU).

The mock evaluation of the programme was implemented by a panel of experts composed of two field experts (one local and one EU expert), two Quality Assurance experts (one local and one EU expert), a student and an employer.   

On the first day of the mission week the experts gathered in Accreditation Department of the Ministry of Education to discuss the self-evaluation reports of Chemical Engineering programs submitted by the four pilot universities and drafted and shared the questions to be addressed to the university staff during the site visits.

Later, the experts panel made a one-day site visit to each of those four universities. Interviews were held with the senior management, the academic staff who developed the self-evaluation members, students, alumni as well as representatives of employers. The experts’ panel also toured various auditoriums and labs in order to evaluate the infrastructure used for teaching of the study programme.

As a result of the mock evaluation, a final evaluation report on each of the two study programmes will be developed by the experts’ panel giving recommendations for further improvements of the program.

The mock evaluation of other study programmes in Informatics Teacher, Computer Science and Foreign Language Teacher selected as pilots by the Twinning project will be performed within the upcoming weeks.