Another mission within the Twinning project Support to strengthening the higher education system in Azerbaijan was implemented from 17-21 June 2019.

Jolita Butkiene, Head of Quality Centre of ISM University of Economic and Management of Lithuania, Nora Skaburskiene, Vice Rector for Academic Affairs of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University of Lithuania and Jolanta Silka, Deputy Director of the Quality Agency for Higher Education of Latvia visited Baku within Component 3 of the Twinning Project titled Quality Assurance System is Further Developed to Reflect the Student-Centeredness of Study Programmes.

The purpose of the mission was to support the pilot higher education institutions at the next stage of writing self-evaluation reports for the selected study programmes.

Meetings were held with the university representatives engaged in the self-evaluation report writing for the pilot study programmes (Chemical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, Computer Sciences, Foreign Language Teacher, Informatics/Math Teacher) during the mission.

All the meetings were held at the Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University. The Twinning Project experts had a separate meeting with each group engaged in the self-evaluation report writing, had discussions on the second version of the self-evaluation report, and provided their recommendations to further improve the reports.

It should be noted that Baku State University, Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University, Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University, Azerbaijan Technical University, Baku Engineering University, Sumgait State University and Khazar University are part of this pilot initiative. Working groups were established for each pilot study programme offered at the universities, and those WGs wrote self-evaluation reports in two stages and delivered them in English.  Final reports are expected in mid-July.

Pilot accreditation of the aforementioned study programmes of pilot universities is planned in autumn this year within the Twinning Project.

There were two previous missions to Baku in connection with this pilot process.