On Independent Evaluation of Educational Activities′

Quality

Dr. А.G. Zekunov, Professor, Leading Expert, Quality Management System Certification Body, Academy of Standardization, Metrology and Certification (training), Moscow, Russia, a_zekunov@mail.ru

Dr. D.S. Lopatkin, Head of Quality Management and Educational Programs Department, D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Moscow, Russia, kachestvomuctr@mail.ru

key words

independent assessment

of education quality, certification of quality management systems, faculty, risk management

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We have examined the main components of the successful activity of D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia. We consider that an effective quality management system at the university is an important condition for efficiency. The ongoing planned inspections and audits confirm the systematic improvement of the main QMS processes.
A system of education quality’s independent evaluation, which is based on the principles of transparency, transparency and regularity was developed and is being actively implemented. Its procedures help the university management to make effective and informed management decisions aimed at the continuous development and improvement of educational activities, improving the quality of the educational process. We believe that the correct introduction of the QMS helps to increase the added value and value of the intangible assets of any organization, including the educational one, which ultimately leads to an increase in its competitiveness.

1. The Regulation on the Independent Evaluation of Education Quality in the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher

Education D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Moscow, 2016.

2. Regulations on the university competition The Best Lecturer, Moscow, 2014.

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5. RF Federal Law of 29.12.2012 N 273-FZ On Education in the Russian Federation (with amendments and additions).

6. Lopatkin D.S., Makarov N.А. Osobennosti primeneniya mezhdunarodnogo standarta ISO 9001:2015 v sfere vysshego obrazovaniya [Features of applicating the international standard ISO 9001: 2015 in the field of higher education], Ekonomika i predprinimatel’stvo, 2016, no. 7(72), pp. 1163–1167.