The seventh mission under the Activity 1.5 Provide recommendations for improvement of education standards for qualification for programmes in the priority areas (incl. legislative arrangements) with a view to describing achievements based on competences and skills, considering the AzQF of Twinning project was implemented from 7 to 11 October 2019.

The mission was implemented by Ms. Ineta helmane, Head of Preschool and Primary School Education Departmennt at the University of Latvia, Antra Ozola, Senior Researcher at the University of Latvia and Janis Mencis, Project Coordinator at Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Optometry at the same university.

The purpose of the mission was to revise the state standards for the study programmes in the field of Primary school teacher, Informatics teacher and Math teacher respectively.

As part of the mission, the experts met with the academic staff representing the above-mentioned study programmes from Baku State University, Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University and Baku Engineering University to collect views and suggestions of the academic staff regarding the revision of those three study programmes selected as pilots as part of the Twinning project.  

The experts also visited Primary School Teacher faculty in Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University, Math teacher and Informatics teacher faculties in Baku State University, Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University and Baku Engineering University to hold discussions with wider community of academic staff and to see the infrastructure used for teaching of the relevant study programmes.

As a result of discussions with relevant academic staff, as well as Ministry of Education representatives, the experts revised professional competences, the list of disciplines and defined the minimum requirements for infrastructure and the possible areas of employment for graduates in the relevant state standards based on the new format of study programmes developed by Twinning experts based on a competence-based approach.

In the mission report written by the experts they also provided recommendations on improvements in the teaching of respective study programmes.