PRODUCING QUALITY OF HIGH EDUCATION – CASE STUDY:
REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
Gordana Bilbilovska
Ivana Bilbilovska
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31410/limen.2018.501
4th International Scientific – Business Conference LIMEN 2018 – Leadership & Management: Integrated Politics of Research and Innovations, Belgrade – Serbia, December 13, 2018, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS published by: Association of Economists and Managers of the Balkans, Belgrade, Serbia; Faculty of Engineering Management – Belgrade, Serbia; Modern Business School – Belgrade, Serbia; Faculty of Business and Management Sciences – Novo Mesto, Slovenia; Faculty of Business Management and Informatics – Novo Mesto, Slovenia; Business Academy Smilevski – BAS, Skopje, Macedonia; BAS Institute of Management, Bitola, Macedonia, ISBN 978-86-80194-15-8
It contributes the development of science, the cooperation with the business sector and
international cooperation. For improving the quality of high education, the evaluation of the
education activities is of vital importance, as well as the education programmes and cadre.
Work force qualification should match the needs of the labour market, to follow the needs, and
to search for new approaches in the education. To develop high education there are activities
and measures in the education process and research activities. The quality is implemented
through reforms in the high education.
Providing high education is possible by law of education. In the Republic of Macedonia in 2018
there is a new law of education that is in function, and covers quality of education, autonomy
of the university and academic freedom and conditions for improving the quality of teaching.
Republic of Macedonia is equal member of the European family countries that are following
and implementing recommendations of the Bologna process.
The activities requires following the standards, criteria and transparency in work. For
improving quality of high education there is international standard ISO/IEC9001. This
standard is applied by the countries from Bologna declaration. Measuring the quality is
possible by detecting variability, identifying and solving problems and improving quality. There
should be activities that measure the processes in the high education institutions. The subjects
should be designed according to the needs of the business sector. There should be better
international cooperation and accreditation of the institutions.
A strategy for development of the Macedonians oldest university “St. Cyril and Methodius” is
in progress. The aiming period is 2019-2025. The goal is quality in achieving the principles,
mission, measures and activities of high education. The mission is to provide continuous
education of the labour force.
The measures that where implemented until now didn’t change much if you have in mind the
fact that none of Macedonian universities is on the Shanghai list. The value of the indicator is
a red light for the ongoing practice in the high education process, and to improve that there is
a need of resources and activities.
Analyses, deduction, induction, synthesis, comparative analyses and other methods are used in
this paper. The goal is to highlight the taken activities in function of achieving quality in high
education and improving its ranking. We expect that in the following period the country should
solve the problems with labour inefficiency, lacking of resources, designing and implementing
reform, and improving the cooperation.
of Macedonia
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