Evaluation of Efficiency of Academic Activities in the Universities of European Higher Education Area and in Ukraine
AUTHORS
Olha Palamarchuk,Institute of Higher Education of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
ABSTRACT
The urgent task of today is ensuring the quality of the educational process, adherence to academic integrity, and evaluation of the efficiency of academic activities of universities. Foreign publications mainly offer one of the most widely used concepts, called BSC - a balanced scorecard for measuring performance and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). National researchers consider the problem of implementation KPI indicators in the activities of universities in achieving their strategic goals, solving the management problem of evaluating the effectiveness of the university management and structural units of the administration. The development of indicators of the efficiency of academic activities of the university should be individual. There were used such methods as analysis, systematization, and generalization for defining the state of the researched problem in foreign and national literature, comparative analyses for finding indicators of academic activities of the universities in the international and national ratings, defining selected indicators at the top-10 universities in Ukraine and method of generalization for writing conclusions and recommendations. The selected indicators should correspond to the mission of each university and at the same time include a common set of indicators to assess its effectiveness. Based on the analysis of the literature, international and national rankings, we propose the system of indicators for the evaluation of the effectiveness of academic activities of the university and give suggestions and recommendations at the national, sectoral, and institutional levels. We recommend considering the indicators of academic activity before developing/writing methodological recommendations on higher education standards, provisions on advanced training of academic staff, Framework of Excellence for academic staff. Universities should be able to go through a smooth, continuous process of change that ensures the effectiveness of the university's research activities and provides resources for teaching and learning. We offer universities to conduct self-assessment and internal ranking of the effectiveness of academic activities.
KEYWORDS
Evaluation of efficiency, Academic activity, System of indicators, University, Key performance indicators, Effectiveness, Rankings
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