“Quality education as a new social value of a successful municipality. Ensuring the quality of education in a certain territory as a task for heads of institutions and professionals of education management bodies” is the topic of the info session organised for the municipalities of the Volyn Oblast by the team of the local Regional Office of U-LEAD with Europe together with the Office of the State Service of Education Quality in the Volyn Oblast.
Purpose of the event:
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Presenting the tasks facing local self-government and educational institutions in the context of building the internal system of ensuring quality education;
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Presenting the tools for analysing and evaluating the quality of education, the basics of ensuring the quality of education, taking into account the interests of all those involved in the educational process and the principles of the applicable state policies.
Anatolii Parkhomiuk, Head of the Regional Office of U-LEAD in the Volyn Oblast, told more about this.
Anhelina Mocharska, Head of the State Service of Education Quality in the Volyn Oblast, spoke about the areas of responsibility of the local self-government and educational institutions when following up on the results of the institutional audit. She emphasised the need to uphold the rights of children throughout the education process and ensure a safe environment for them.
The participants of the event learned about the study of socio-emotional skills of Ukrainian schoolchildren (DoSEN) — the first large-scale survey in the world that was conducted to find out the level of formation of social-emotional skills of schoolchildren aged 10 and 15. Eight schools of the Volyn Oblast took part in the study.
Modern opportunities for the formation and development of a holistic system of educational institutions in the municipality were also discussed. Oksana Pitsyk, Head of the Smidyn Village Council, shared her experience at the info session.
Finally, the event touched upon institutional audit — a new format for ensuring quality education in the institution — as well as options for improving the quality of education in a certain territory based on external evaluation such as local self-government audit or institutional audit.
“The audit is not a punishment tool. It is a tool for accurate diagnosis, a competent “outside perspective” that allows both educational institutions and their founders to understand their strengths and weaknesses better and together make an action plan to achieve better results. During the audit and following up on its results, all parties act as partners rather than antagonists,” said Anatolii Matviuk, Adviser on Local Finances and Management at the Regional Office.