Conference that will mark the beginning of the implementation of the project of support to higher education reform in BiH, will be held tomorrow on 12 June in Sarajevo, reports Fena.
The project was started by Delegation of the European Union to Bosnia and Herzegovina and Council of Europe Office in BiH.
This conference is a platform for consultation among different participants and partners: academic community, students’ unions, education ministers, employment agencies, statistics agencies, international organisations, chambers of commerce, trade unions, said the Council of Europe Office in BiH.
Ten years after BiH became a part of Bologna Process, the conference will give an overview of all problems, priorities and achieved progress in the reform of higher education in BiH in the past ten years.
The conference will help the identification of key issues that needs to be tackled in the new project which is being financed by the EU and Council of Europe. At the conference concrete suggestions will be offered to academic community, governments and other partners in BiH.
The project should help BiH to achieve one of the goals in strategic development plan of education for 2008-2015 period, the full accession to the European Higher Education Area.
The focus of this project will be the development of priorities for the strategic development of higher education in BiH after the 2015, based on the analysis of the sector, which will be done in the project and the development of subject descriptors (benchmark statements) and occupational standards in five scientific fields for a number of professions.
The project will connect higher education titles with professions and will give a good practice for improving the employment ability of students in BiH and it will also contribute to implementation of the Framework of higher education titles BiH.
The “trategic development of higher education and qualification standards was launched at the request of the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina and will last for two years. The project is worth 1.115 million EUR, of which the EU gave 1 million euros from the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA 2011) and the Council of Europe, which is implementing the project, gave 115,000 EUR.
