UPDATE ON HIGHER EDUCATION

REFORM PROJECT

ACTIVITIES

Project Goal: To increase the number of Mongolia's

globally competitive higher education graduates responsive to

labor market demands

Financing Organization: Asian Development Bank

Executing Agency: Ministry of Education and Science

Started Date of the Project Implementation: 10

January 2012

Project Completion Date: 31 December 2016

Project Components

1. Improved quality and relevance of

higher education programs

2. Improved effectiveness of higher

education governance, management,

and financing

3. Improved equity and access

Improved quality and relevance

1. 3 programs in priority disciplines /natural sciences,

engineering and technology, and agriculture/ are

accredited internationally

2. National QA and Accreditation criteria and procedure

development

3. Identification of 23 priority programs

accreditednationally

4. Enhancement of public-private partnership

5. Research capacity building and partnership development with top institutions

Improved effectiveness of HE governance, management,

and financing

Sectoral governance reform Recruitment of Consultancy Service for HE

Institutional level governance & managment Capacity building activities for imrpovement of

management and governance

HE finance New regulations to support competitive grant

mechanism

Improved equity and access

Improve gender sensitive policy and practice in HE

Increase the proportion of female baord members and

top management

Increase the proportion of mael ernrollment in HEIs

Rural HEI development

Procurement of e-learning center to promote distance

learning

Improve policy and management of rural HEIs

Social issues in HE workforce and students

Core reform frameworks 1. Institutional Reform

Legislative environment-higher education law amendment

Financial mechanism-Endowment fund

Organizational-Independent regulatory body and academic autonomy and governance of HEIs

2. Human Resource Development Continuous Professional Development

Research capacity

Upgrading degrees

Study tours

3. Improving capacity of HEIs through Information Technology

Management Information System for HEIs

E-learning and distance learning centers, digital library, and e-testing

E-book, e-academic reference database

Progress of performance tasks

Institutional Reform

Working group for law amendment of HE law

Draft law to extend current State Training Fund’s scope of work to establish Higher Education Fund which offers competitive grants for research and organizational development of HEIs and student loan

Human Resource Development

Study tour and training at Stanford University to learn sound practices of governance and PPP

Researching quality training courses in abroad to prepare national Trainers of Trainers

Developing concept of Center of Excellence

Improving capacity of HEIs through Information Technology

IT development working group is working to integrate IT infrastructure for MEDS and HEIs

Preparing for procurement of e-learning centers and e-library

Other activities done to support major reform

1. Stakeholder meetings and workshops

Credit System- Opportunity- Implementation

Improving the system of State Training Fund

Establishing Research University System: Issues and Solutions

Improving Graduate Schools

2. Processing of bid documents for

Consulting service for overall project implementation

Provision of equipment and learning facilities for 7 rural HEIs

Consulting service for Social Study

Consulting service for MIS

3. Capacity building training

Improving internal quality control through internal audit units

Consultancy Service

HE Responsiveness to Labor Market

HE Monitoring and Evaluation

HEManagement Information System

Higher Education reform /international/

Individual consultants in financing, human resource

development, law and accreditation

Capacity building External training – quality assurance, curriculum

development, professsional development and HE studies

Internal workshop training – HE curriculum reform, accreditation, gender equality, rural HEIs, legal framework

Completed tasks

Procurement

Supplying office furniture and equipment to rural 7 HEIs

Renovation work of 8 HEIs

Supplying Laboratory Equipment for 2HEIs

Major planned activities in 2014

No Planned activities Cost

1 Capacity building training USD 138,800

2 Workshops /20 times/ USD 99,850

3 Supply of furniture and equipment to 7 rural HEIs USD 192,500

4 Supply of furniture and equipment to 22 HEIs USD 1,802,900

5 Consulting service USD 1,462,200

6 Benefit Monitoring Survey, Social Survey, and Tracer

& Labor Market Survey

USD 425, 000

7 Management Information System USD 110, 000

8 Study tour USD 360, 000

TOTAL USD 4,301,250

Intermediate objectives

Competitive grants To support new initiatives of teaching and learning by

HEIs (MOOC, OER, blended learning and flipped classrooom projecrts)

Research capacity of faculty Joint research grants

New initiative grants for faculty development

Fellowship grants to faculty members

Reserach grants for doctorates

Thank you for your attention!