The sixth 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 of the Twinning project was implemented during the mission that lasted from 6 to 10 January 2020.     

The mission was implemented by Ms. Nora Skaburskiene, Director of Academic Affairs Office of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University of Lithuania, and Mr. Pierre Collet, Professor of Strasbourg University of France.

The purpose of the mission was to perform a mock evaluation of Computer Science study programme in three pilot universities of the Twinning project – Baku State University (BSU), Azerbaijan Oil and Industry University (ASOIU) and Azerbaijan Technical Universiity (AzTU).

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 Computer Science study programs submitted by 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 three universities. Interviews were held with the senior management, the academic staff member who developed the self-evaluation report, students, alumni as well as representatives of employers. The experts’ panel also toured various auditoriums, library of the university, computer labs and other related facilities 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 three study programmes will be developed by the experts’ panel giving recommendations for further improvements of the program.