Government Regulation No. 274 / 2016 Coll.
Government regulations on standards for accreditation in higher education
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274
GOVERNMENT REGULATION
of 24 August 2016
on standards for accreditation in higher education
The Government orders pursuant to Section 82a of Act No. 111 / 1998 Coll., on Higher Education and on the amendment and addition of other laws (Act on Higher Education), as amended by Act No. 137 / 2016 Coll.:
Subject matter
This Regulation lays down standards for institutional accreditation, standards for accreditation of the study programme, standards for accreditation of the habilitation procedure and standards for accreditation of the procedure for appointment as a professor as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
Efficacy
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September 2016.
Prime Minister:
Sobotka v. r.
Minister for Education, Youth and Sports:
Mgr. Valachová, Ph.D., v. r.
Annex to Government Regulation No 274 / 2016 Coll.
Standards for Higher Education Accreditation
STANDARDS FOR INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITATION
A. Requirements for the institutional environment
I. Scope of higher education institutions, management and management
1. The higher education institution is defined as fulfilling the competence of the statutory body and other bodies, their competence, competence and responsibility. The responsibilities, powers and responsibilities of senior staff shall be defined.
2. The university has the competence, competence and responsibilities of the institutions and heads of staff of the higher education institution, which form a functional body.
3. The activities of the higher education institutions and parts of the higher education institution shall comply with the Higher Education Act and the definition referred to in points 1 and 2 and shall ensure compliance with the responsibilities of the higher education institution laid down in the Higher Education Act and the competence of the higher education institution to comply with the standards for institutional accreditation.
4. Economic mechanisms and control systems in the field of higher education management ensure the maintenance of an appropriate level of educational activity, creative activity and related activities.
II. Mission and strategy of the university
1. The university has clearly defined its mission in view of the role played by the university within the Czech Republic, its regions and the international environment.
2. The college has strategic objectives in terms of educational, creative and related activities, international cooperation in these activities, university development and support activities needed for these activities.
3. The university has a set of indicators to monitor the achievement of the objectives of the higher education, creative and related activities corresponding to its mission, strategy and management. These indicators also include international cooperation, university development and support activities needed for educational, creative and related activities.
4. The creation and approval of the strategic project of the higher education institution and other essential strategic documents shall be carried out in accordance with established functional procedures which promote the involvement of all members of the academic community and other relevant experts.
5. The strategic aim of the university and other essential strategic documents discussed and approved by the academic bodies of the university are accessible to all members of the academic community of the university, other experts at the university and the public.
6. The university has set up an effective system ensuring equal access to study for all students and students. The university provides services and other support measures to compensate for the opportunities to study at the university for students with specific needs.
7. The university has an ethical code covering all employees and students of the university.
III. Higher education activities associated with educational activities
1. International cooperation is reflected in the educational activities of the university.
2. National and regional cooperation is reflected in the educational activity of the university.
3. The university has a document governing its social responsibility in relation to the educational activity of the university and fulfils that responsibility.
IV. Creative activity of the university
1. The university, if it does not exclusively carry out study programmes in the field of art, applies a methodology for evaluating the results of creative activities based on established main performance indicators in creative activities in accordance with the Czech National Research, Development and Innovation Policy.
2. The university presents an evaluation of the most important activities of the university in creative activities in the last 5 years in the field of education for which the university is applying for institutional accreditation.
3. The creative activity of the university is reflected in educational activity, international activity and cooperation with practice.
V. Internal quality assurance system for educational, creative and related activities and internal quality evaluation of educational, creative and related activities of the university
1. The internal quality assurance system for educational, creative and related activities and the internal quality assessment of educational, creative and related activities shall be adapted in the internal rules and, where appropriate, other internal documents and work of relevant persons at the university. The university will prove that the system is operational.
2. The university has a functional board for internal evaluation and responsibilities for the quality of educational, creative and related activities are defined at all levels of management.
3. The functioning of the internal system of quality assurance and evaluation of educational, creative and related activities shall be dedicated to personnel, material and financial resources corresponding to the size and breakdown of the university and the scope of the educational, creative and related activities undertaken.
4. The responsibility for quality assurance of educational, creative and related activities is enshrined at all levels of higher education management and the allocation of responsibilities within the quality assurance system is clearly established.
5. The university has a clear description of the link between the quality assurance, quality assessment and quality assessment between the educational, creative and related activities of the higher education institution and adequately implements such links.
6. The quality assessment of educational, creative and related activities shall be based on feedback processes; academic staff, students, graduates and experts from a given university or from a different place of work from that university are involved in these processes.
7. The results of the evaluation of the quality of the educational, creative and related activities of the university are available to the members of the academic community of the university and other experts at the university.
8. The quality assessment of educational, creative and related activities shall be carried out regularly.
9. The university shall continuously evaluate and improve the quality assurance system and processes of educational, creative and related activities.
10. The internal system of quality assurance and evaluation of educational, creative and related activities is based on systematic monitoring of all related university processes.
11. The College has in place effective control processes and follow-up processes to remedy identified deficiencies.
12. The university publishes basic information on the functioning of the internal system of quality assurance and evaluation of educational, creative and related activities, including regular basic information on the results achieved and, where appropriate, the measures taken.
VI. Procedures for the approval, management and periodic evaluation of the quality of study programmes
1. The internal regulations and, where appropriate, other internal university documents shall define the processes for the creation, approval and modification of study programmes.
2. The internal regulation and, where appropriate, other internal documents of a higher education institution shall define a set of internal requirements for the study programmes approved by the higher education institution under institutional accreditation. This set of requirements corresponds to the standards for accreditation of the study programme referred to in Part Two, Title One, Chapters II to IV, Part Two, Title One, Section B, and Part Two, Title Two, mutatis mutandis. The university is able to demonstrate compliance with these requirements and standards for the accreditation of the study programme on any study programme.
3. The university has set up effective processes to monitor compliance with approved internal requirements for study programmes and, in the event of failure to meet them, the mechanisms to ensure redress are set up.
4. The university has an effective system of regular evaluation of the quality of study programmes aimed at achieving the objectives of the study and their corresponding learning results, involving both academics and students and other relevant experts.
5. The internal quality assurance and evaluation system shall cover all higher education programmes, including those carried out in cooperation with other legal entities.
VII. Supporting Resources and Administration
1. The university is able to provide sufficient and operational teaching facilities.
2. The university has a functional information system and means of communication that provide access to accurate and understandable information about study programmes, study rules and requirements related to study.
3. Library services and electronic resources for teaching are sufficient and available to students.
4. The university has adequate support services and administrative resources.
5. Candidates for study and students have an offer of information and advisory services related to study and the possibility of applying graduate study programmes in practice.
B. Training requirements
I. Scope and structure of training activities in the field of education
1. The nature, scope and structure of the educational activity carried out by a university in the field of education shall correspond to the description of this field of education referred to in the Government Regulation on Higher Education Education Areas, issued under Section 44a (3) of the Higher Education Act.
2. The objectives, content and organisation of studies in the field of education are in line with the mission and strategic purpose of the higher education institution and other university strategic documents.
II. Ensuring conditions for carrying out educational activities in the field of education
1. The creative activity related to the area of education corresponds to the nature of the educational activity carried out in the field of education for which the university requests institutional accreditation. Where a university applies for institutional accreditation to be authorised separately to establish and carry out Bachelor's academic programmes, Master's degree programmes or doctoral programmes, it shall undertake appropriate scientific or artistic activities; This activity shall be subject to the requirements for creative activities set out in these institutional accreditation standards.
2. The overall structure of staff provision of teaching, creative activities and related activities by academic staff in the field of education shall be consistent with the qualification, age, length of weekly working time and experience with activity abroad or in practice with the nature of educational activities carried out in the field of education for which the university applies for institutional accreditation and the type or types of study programmes requested and ensures:
(a) guaranteeing the level of quality of the education sector as a whole and its development;
(b) the guarantee of study programmes in this field; and
(c) guaranteeing the teaching of these study programmes.
3. Any working or professional conditions of an academic worker agreed for a maximum period of one year with a weekly working time range not exceeding 0,2 times the fixed weekly working time provided for in Section 79 of the Labour Code shall not be taken into account when assessing the requirements for the weekly working hours of an academic worker.
4. In the case of medical training programmes, requirements for the length of the weekly working hours of the academic staff shall be deemed to be fulfilled even if those requirements can be achieved by adding the weekly working hours of the academic staff at the university to the weekly working hours of that person, given by his / her employment relationship to the faculty hospital or to another medical establishment with which the university has a contract of cooperation with which to provide clinical practical training or research and development activities.
5. The international role of a higher education institution in relation to the education sector, in particular the foreign mobility of students and academics, their involvement in the activities of foreign and, in particular, international professional organisations and international research projects, or the integration of the possibility of foreign mobility into study programmes, and the conditions for carrying out such activities correspond to the nature of the educational activities carried out in the field of education for which the higher education is requested by institutional accreditation.
6. Cooperation with practice is in line with the nature of the educational activity carried out in the field of education for which the university is applying for institutional accreditation.
7. Financial, spatial, instrumentation, information and communication equipment and other security are in line with the nature of the educational activities carried out in the field of education for which the university requests institutional accreditation.
STANDARDS FOR ACCREDITATION OF THE STUDY PROGRAMME
General requirements
C. Requirements for the institutional environment
I. Scope of higher education institutions
1. The higher education institution shall be designated by the higher education institution, which shall be responsible for the statutory body, and other bodies shall be defined, their competence, competence and responsibility.
2. The university has defined the responsibilities, powers and responsibilities of the bodies of its parts for the activities and activities relating to the development and implementation of study programmes and which form a functional whole.
II. Internal system of quality assurance and evaluation of educational, creative and related activities of higher education institutions
1. At all levels of higher education management, the competence and responsibility for the quality of educational activities, scientific and research, development and innovation, artistic or other creative activities (hereinafter referred to as "creative activities') and related activities are defined to form a functional whole.
2. The internal regulations of the higher education institutions define in more detail the processes for the creation, approval and amendment of draft study programmes before submitting them for accreditation to the National Accreditation Office for Higher Education.
3. Where a university intends to assess compliance with the conditions for admission to study in a study programme, using the provisions of § 48 (4) (d) or § 48 (5) (c) of the Higher Education Act, rules, principles and described the process of assessing compliance with the condition of prior education are established.
4. The university has sufficiently effective measures to ensure the level of quality of qualification work and systematically ensures the quality of defended qualification work and defended rigorously work. Within the framework of its rules, it shall lay down the requirements for the management of such work and the qualification requirements for persons who conduct qualification work or rigorously work and shall determine the maximum number of qualification work or rigorously work which one person may perform.
5. The quality assurance and evaluation of educational, creative and related activities shall be based on feedback processes, in particular surveys and quantitative and qualitative surveys, with academic staff, students, relevant professional chambers, professional associations or employers' organisations or other practitioners involved in these processes, taking into account the types and potential profiles of study programmes.
6. In the field of educational and creative activities, the university has set up indicators to monitor the degree of success in the recruitment procedure, study failure in the study programme, the degree of proper completion of the study programme and the applicability of graduates.
III. Educational, creative and related activities of higher education institutions
1. The educational and creative activities of the university shall be based on current knowledge in a broader context and shall have an international character, taking into account the type and possible profile of the study programmes, in particular:
(a) foreign mobility of students and academics is carried out;
(b) study subjects in foreign languages or study programmes in foreign languages are offered.
2. The College shall develop cooperation with practice taking into account the types and potential profiles of study programmes; in particular practical training, the award of bachelor's, diploma or dissertation work ("qualification work '), the award of rigorously-based work, the award of scholarships and the involvement of practitioners in the training process.
3. The university communicates with professional chambers, professional associations, employers' organisations or other practitioners and identifies their expectations and requirements for graduate programmes.
IV. Supporting Resources and Administration of Higher Education
1. The university has a functional information system and means of communication that provide access to accurate and understandable information about study programmes, study rules and requirements related to study.
2. Library services and electronic sources for teaching are sufficient and available to students and academics, taking into account the type and possible profile of the study programme.
3. For applicants for study, students and other persons, there is an offer of information and advisory services related to study and the possibility of applying graduate study programmes in practice.
4. The university provides available services, scholarships and other support measures to compensate for the opportunities to study at the university for students with specific needs. In particular:
(a) in the field of balancing the conditions of study of students with specific needs, based on generally binding legislation;
(b) ensure informed and human dignity respecting the access of all its employees to students and applicants with specific needs;
(c) ensure that the services provided and the adjustments made in order to achieve the accessibility of academic life for students with specific needs do not lead to a reduction of learning requirements.
5. The College has taken sufficiently effective measures:
(a) to protect intellectual property;
(b) against deliberate action against good manners in the course of studies; particularly against plagiarism and fraud in studies.
D. Requirements for the study programme
I. Compliance of the study programme with the mission of the university and its objectives
1. The study programme shall be in line with the mission and strategic intention of the educational and scientific, research, development and innovation, artistic or other creative activities of the higher education institution (hereinafter referred to as the "strategic purpose of the higher education institution ') and other strategic documents of the university.
2. For the study programme, the university will prove:
(a) in the case of an academic-oriented Bachelor's or Master's study programme, link and link with the creative activity of a university;
(b) in the case of a professional Bachelor's or Master's study programme, cooperation in a given study programme with practice;
(c) in the case of a doctoral study programme, link and link with the scientific or artistic activity of a university.
3. The university shall take into account the international dimension of the study programme, taking into account the type and possible profile of the study programme.
II. Profile of graduate study programme and study content in study programme
1. The professional knowledge, professional skills and general competence acquired by graduates of the study programme shall be in accordance with the type and, where appropriate, the profile of the study programme.
2. The study programme is designed to demonstrate the ability to use acquired expertise, professional skills and general competence in at least one foreign language during the course of the study.
3. The university has functional rules and conditions for the development of study plans, including the definition of practical teaching, where appropriate, by another natural or legal person and the length of such practical teaching, whereby:
(a) the study plan of an academic Bachelor's or Master's Degree Programme shall be drawn up in such a way as to enable students, in particular, to obtain the theoretical knowledge necessary for the pursuit of their profession, including the pursuit of creative activities and the acquisition of the necessary practical skills;
(b) the study plan of a professional Bachelor's or Master's programme shall be drawn up in such a way as to enable students, in particular, to master the practical skills required for the pursuit of the profession supported by the acquisition of the necessary theoretical knowledge;
(c) the study plan of the doctoral study programme shall be drawn up in such a way as to enable students to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for scientific or artistic activities.
4. The study programme is designed to define the framework application of graduates of the study programme and the typical job position that the graduate may hold.
5. The standard study period corresponds to the average study burden, content and objectives of the study and profile of the graduate study programme.
6. The content of the study in the study programme is in line with the objectives of the study and allows a defined profile of the graduate study programme.
7. The study programme is set and justified by the structure of study subjects, their scope and characteristics.
8. The content of teaching subjects, teaching methods, provision of practical teaching, method of evaluation, content of state examinations, topics and focus of qualification work are in line with the planned learning results and the profile of the graduate in the study programme and create a logical whole. The national rigory examinations and topics of the rigorous work of graduates of Master's degree programmes who have obtained the academic degree "Master's degree 'are covered accordingly.
III. Personnel security of the study programme
1. The university has a sufficient definition of the competence and responsibility of the guarantor of the study programme to ensure the quality of the study programme.
2. The guarantee of the study programme shall be guaranteed by an academic worker fulfilling the conditions laid down in Section 44 (6) of the Higher Education Act, with sufficient professional qualifications in the study programme or in the study programme of a close or related content focus. The guarantor is an academic member of the relevant university.
3. The study programme shall be provided by academic staff and, where appropriate, other experts with appropriate qualifications for the provision of individual subjects.
4. The overall structure of the academic staff providing the study programme shall correspond in terms of qualification, age, length of weekly working time and experience with activity abroad or in practice to the structure of the study plan, objectives and possible profile of the study programme, with:
(a) in the case of an academic-oriented Bachelor's or Master's study programme, academic staff shall perform a creative activity corresponding to that or related study programme;
(b) in the case of a professional Bachelor's or Master's degree programme, the representation of practitioners involved in teaching shall be adequately ensured;
(c) in the case of a doctoral study programme, academic staff shall carry out a creative activity corresponding to that or related study programme.
5. The number of academic staff providing the study programme for which accreditation is sought shall correspond to the type of study programme, area or areas of training under which or within which the study programme is to be carried out, the form of study, teaching methods, the expected number of students and any profile of the study programme; If a university requests to extend or extend the accreditation of a study programme, the number of academic staff providing the study programme is also appropriate to the actual number of students.
6. The university has an effective strategy for the personnel development of academic staff and there are motivational tools for this development.
7. Teaching which takes place outside the head office of a university, with the exception of professional practice, shall be provided by appropriately qualified staff as at the head office of a university.
IV. Methods of teaching and evaluation of study results
1. The implementation of the study programme uses modern teaching methods corresponding to the results of the study programme and approaches supporting the active role of students in the teaching process.
2. The ratio of direct teaching and self-study is consistent with the study programme, the form of study, any profile of the study programme and teaching methods.
3. The composition of the study literature, as well as the composition of teaching resources and sets of information, which will replace the student with direct teaching (hereinafter referred to as "study support"), which are set out in the requirements of the study subjects of the profiling basis, reflects the current state of knowledge. Students are provided with the availability of study literature and study support, which are mentioned in the requirements of the learning subjects profiling the basis.
4. The university has published criteria that match the objectives of the study and allow for objective evaluation and for which students are evaluated. The evaluation allows students to improve during their studies.
V. Creative activities relating to the study programme
The university carries out a creative activity corresponding to the area or areas of education within which or within which the study programme of the type concerned is to be carried out and shall evaluate its outputs in the light of any profile of the study programme.
VI. Financial, material and other security of study programme
1. The university has assessed the expected financial costs of carrying out the study programme, in particular the costs of instrumentation and its operation, the costs of material and technical equipment and its modernisation, personnel costs, the costs of continuing training of academics and the costs of innovation, and has adequate resources to cover these costs.
2. The university has an infrastructure for teaching in the study programme, in particular adequate material and technical security, sufficient and operational teaching and learning facilities, teaching equipment and laboratory supplies, and laboratory and educational facilities, which correspond to the type of study programme and, in the case of the Bachelor's or Master's study programme as well as the study programme profile, and the number of students.
3. Students have sufficient access to professional literature and other information sources corresponding to the type of study programme and, in the case of Bachelor's or Master's study programme, the profile of the study programme.
4. Material and technical security of the study programme carried out outside the head office of the higher education institution must be comparable to that provided for in the implementation of the study programme at the head office of the higher education institution. Where there is only practical teaching outside the head office of a university, material and technical security shall be in line with the needs of such teaching.
Specifications of requirements for individual types and forms of study programmes
A. General requirements for all types and forms of study programmes
1. An academic worker may be in universities:
(a) a guarantee of not more than one study programme;
(b) guarantee not more than one Bachelor's study programme and one Master's study programme of the same, close or related content focus;
(c) guarantee not more than one master's programme and one doctoral programme of the same, close or related content focus; or
(d) a guarantee in the field of art of not more than one Bachelor's degree programme, one Master's degree programme and one doctoral degree programme of the same, close or related content focus;
carried out in the Czech language and in the case of a study programme of the same content focus in the Czech and foreign languages.
2. The guarantor of the study programme acts as an academic worker at the university on the basis of a work or service relationship or relationships with a total weekly working time corresponding to a fixed weekly working time under Section 79 of the Labour Code. In the case of a study programme carried out on parts of a higher education institution, the guarantor of the study programme shall also act on that part as an academic worker on the basis of the first sentence of the first sentence with a weekly working time corresponding to at least half of the fixed weekly working time provided for in Section 79 of the Labour Code.
3. Any other work or employment conditions of the guarantor of the study programme, on the basis of which he acts as an academic worker at the same or other universities or at a foreign university or legal person in accordance with Section 93a of the Higher Education Act, shall not give rise to an obligation to perform work or to be present at the workplace to an overall extent exceeding half the prescribed weekly working hours under Section 79 of the Labour Code.
4. The basic theoretical subjects of the profiling basis of the study programme are provided by the guardians who are significantly involved in their teaching, for example by conducting lectures. The study programme shall be sufficiently staffed in terms of the duration of its accreditation and the prospects of its development, in particular with regard to:
(a) the length of weekly working hours of the guarantees of basic theoretical study subjects profiling the basis of the study programme;
(b) the period for which the employment of these staff members is agreed or for which the contract is ensured.
5. In the event that the sum of the weekly working hours of an academic worker from all closed working or service conditions for the activity of an academic worker at the same or other university exceeds 1,5 times the prescribed weekly working hours under Section 79 of the Labour Code, that academic worker shall not be taken into account when assessing the personnel security of the study programme at any university.
6. Any working or professional conditions of an academic worker agreed for a maximum period of one year with a weekly working time range not exceeding 0,2 times the fixed weekly working time provided for in Section 79 of the Labour Code shall not be taken into account when assessing the requirements for the weekly working hours of an academic worker.
7. In the case of medical training programmes, requirements for the length of the weekly working hours of the academic staff shall be considered to be fulfilled even if those requirements can be achieved by adding the weekly working hours of the academic staff at the university to the weekly working hours of that person, given by his / her employment relationship to the faculty hospital or to another medical institution with which the university has a contract of cooperation in the provision of clinical and practical teaching or research and development activities.
8. For practitioners, their professional activities over the last 5 years are reported.
9. In the absence of a study programme in the field of art, teachers shall have a university degree obtained by graduating at least a Master's degree or equivalent obtained at a foreign university.
10. In the case of study programmes to be carried out in cooperation with a foreign university in accordance with § 47a of the Higher Education Act, the validity of foreign accreditation or other forms of recognition of the content of the foreign higher education programme in accordance with the legislation of the home state of a foreign higher education institution shall be demonstrated, or the application for such foreign accreditation or recognition shall be supported, where appropriate; the relevant legislation of the home state of a foreign higher education institution is specifically identified.
B. General requirements for Bachelor's study programmes
I. Content of study in Bachelor's study programme
1. The content of the study in the Bachelor's study programme is based on the application of contemporary knowledge and methods of creative activity in the field of education.
2. The content of the study in the Bachelor's study programme includes basic theoretical disciplines.
II. Personnel security of the Bachelor's study programme
1. The guarantor of the Bachelor's Study Programme shall be an academic officer who has been appointed as a professor or a professor or has the scientific rank of "candidate of science" (in short "CSc.") or an education obtained through the completion of a doctoral study programme (hereinafter referred to as "scientific rank").
2. The basic theoretical study subjects profiling the basis of the Bachelor's study programme shall be guaranteed by academic staff appointed by the Professor or Professor or by academic staff of scientific grade; study subjects profiling the basis of study programmes in the field of art may also be guaranteed by academic staff with an appropriate artistic erection. The guaranties of these subjects participate in their teaching.
C. Academically oriented Bachelor's Study Program
1. A guarantor of an academic-oriented Bachelor's study programme shall have a professional qualification in relation to a given Bachelor's study programme or study programme of a close or related content focus and have carried out scientific or artistic activity in the last five years corresponding to the area or areas of education within which or within which the Bachelor's study programme is to be carried out.
2. The university carries out a scientific or artistic activity corresponding to the area or areas of education within which or within which the Bachelor's study programme is to be carried out.
D. Professionally focused Bachelor's Study Program
1. The guarantor of a professional Bachelor's study programme shall have a professional qualification in relation to the Bachelor's study programme or to the study programme of a close or related content focus and have done a creative activity in the last five years corresponding to the areas or areas of education within which or within which the Bachelor's study programme is to be carried out or during which period he has been in a relevant professional practice.
2. The content of a professional bachelor's study programme takes into account the specificities associated with the need for cooperation with practice.
3. The staff provision of a professional Bachelor's study programme also involves sufficient involvement of practitioners.
4. The study plan of a professional Bachelor's study programme shall be designed in such a way as to include student experience of at least 12 weeks.
E. General requirements for Master's study programmes
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Government Regulation No. 274 / 2016 Coll., on Standards for Higher Education Accreditation |
|---|---|
| Regulation Type | Regulation |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 31.08.2016 |
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| Effective from | 01.09.2016 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
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