A guarantor in the quality management system of educational programs: a case of Ukrainian universities

  • Received August 22, 2020;
    Accepted November 9, 2020;
    Published November 25, 2020
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.18(4).2020.14
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    Volume 18 2020, Issue #4, pp. 153-166
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Development of the system of ensuring quality in higher education of Ukraine grounded the creation of such management subject as a guarantor of the educational program. However, a formal understanding of the role and uncertainty of the guarantor’s status in the contemporary area of managing higher education institutions became the widespread consequence of those innovations. Considering the stated above, various models of managing the quality of educational programs with the help of the guarantor have been developed in the research, and conditions for efficient application of such models in Ukrainian universities have been grounded. The research is based on the application of the strategic analysis method GAP for identifying issues and features of organizing management in systems of internal quality assurance in universities, and methods of modeling and graphical analysis method for creating alternative management systems in educational programs with and without such professional educational-scientific structural subdivisions as departments. As a result, the developed models include the rational organization of management of educational programs under the conditions of centralized and decentralized systems of internal educational quality assurance provision. For instance, it could create favorable conditions for decreasing bureaucracy and repetition of functions in the management system of universities and lead to the realization of the individual potential of guarantors as managers-experts in educational programs.

Acknowledgment
To the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance for the possibility to take part in accreditation expertise and consulting evaluation of educational programs in universities of Ukraine. The research was carried out also within the context of the tasks of Ukrainian-American international project “Program of professional development of them managerial staff in Ukrainian universities,” which was initiated by the investment company “Rayter Inc.” (The USA). In addition, we are thankful to the Czech Development Cooperation support, which allowed this scientific cooperation to start (through projects: “Strengthening scientific capacities and cooperation of Ukrainian universities in AgriSciences” and “Interuniversity cooperation as a tool to improve the quality of selected universities in Ukraine”).

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    • Figure 1. Classification of main quality assurance management models of educational programs with the inclusion of special educational-scientific structural subdivisions (departments)
    • Figure 2. Combined linear-administrative model of quality assurance of educational programs by one major
    • Figure 3. Scheme of the matrix model of quality assurance of educational programs
    • Figure 4. Model of organizing administrative and academic management of the educational program based on the process approach
    • Figure 5. Models of quality assurance of educational programs without the creation of professional educational-scientific structural subdivisions (departments)
    • Conceptualization
      Oleksandr Velychko
    • Data curation
      Oleksandr Velychko, Svitlana Khalatur
    • Formal Analysis
      Oleksandr Velychko, Liudmyla Velychko
    • Funding acquisition
      Oleksandr Velychko, Liudmyla Velychko
    • Investigation
      Oleksandr Velychko, Liudmyla Velychko, Svitlana Khalatur
    • Methodology
      Oleksandr Velychko, Liudmyla Velychko, Hynek Roubík
    • Project administration
      Oleksandr Velychko, Svitlana Khalatur
    • Supervision
      Oleksandr Velychko, Hynek Roubík
    • Writing – original draft
      Oleksandr Velychko
    • Writing – review & editing
      Oleksandr Velychko, Liudmyla Velychko, Svitlana Khalatur, Hynek Roubík
    • Resources
      Liudmyla Velychko, Svitlana Khalatur
    • Visualization
      Liudmyla Velychko, Hynek Roubík
    • Software
      Svitlana Khalatur, Hynek Roubík
    • Validation
      Svitlana Khalatur, Hynek Roubík