Policy of higher education quality assurance: opportunities and barriers to the development of liberal education in Lithuania
Santrauka
In the European and Bologna process documents the main aim of higher
education (HE) is the creation of an advanced, competitive and economically strong
Europe. Educated people who are able to create personal and career professional success
are especially important for seeking this aim. Liberal education is widely understood
as intellectual and cognitive formation, therefore it is an essential condition to
ensure the development of educated and successful individuals. But the base of liberal
education development is the policy of quality assurance (QA) in the HE which at the
same time is a priority and a source of trust for European HE. The empirical results of
this research shows that problems of policy of the HE QA in Lithuania are related to the
lack of focus on successfulness of the personal life and motivational incentives for students,
focus on development of the general and entrepreneurial competences, ambition
of the state to control students’ flows, lack of rational and systematic planning of the
state and problems concerned forecasting of changes in the labour market, and different
perception of the concept of quality by stakeholders. The fact that there are problems
and shortcomings in the field of policy of HE QA, there is a lack of research involving
liberal education in conjunction with the HE QA – poses a risk for liberal education
development and for the creation of an advanced competitive and economically strong
Europe.
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