FASTQUAD: facilitating students mobility's service including quality insurance dimension

Dmitry Vasilenko, St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance (FINEC)

Vadim Nekrasov, Novosibirsk State Technical University

Erasmus Mundus 2007-2282

• Pierre Mendes France University (F), • Savonia University of Applied Sciences (FIN), • University of Alicante (S), • University of Genoa (I), • Cluj-Napoca technical University (RO), • Ural State Technical University, • Saratov State Social-Economic University, • St. Petersburg State University of Economics and

Finance, • Novosibirsk State Technical University

FASTQUAD

• To analyze how the mobility facilitating services work if they exist and how to set up this services in Russian HEIs.

• The aim is to specify conditions of creation such a service and to develop of guidance for exchange.

Project plan of activities (theoretical):

• Analysis of the current situation in Russia,

• Principles of the EU mobility schemes,

• Development of joint modules & programs,

• Quality assurance.

From wise plans…

• Analysis of the current situation in Russia :– Are there any mobility flows?– How universities manage them?– Are incoming/outgoing flows well-balanced?– What are the major problems?

… to tough reality

• Analysis of the current situation in the EU partner universities:

– Are there any mobility flows?– How universities manage them?– Are incoming/outgoing flows well-balanced?– What are the major problems?

Perfect mobility scheme I

– Partners selection,– Exchange conditions

definition, – Students’ selection,– Students’ enrollment,– Supervising,– Control.

Perfect mobility scheme II

Short-term or initial period:• Mobility under professor’s

management: – Risk of corruption,– Risk of reputation losses

(“forsaken students”), – Nepotism.

Long-term period:– Mobility under

administrative management

Development of modules

From roots:• Russian language

decadence;• Risk of reputation losses;• Legal status of exchange

student;To branches:• Modules of DD programs;• Modules of special

program;

QA: major problems

Outgoing:• Financial,• Motivation• Foreign and Russian

language• Recognition of studiesIncoming:• Geo-motivation,• “Forsaken” students,• Legal status.

Thank you!