IMPACT OF TEMPUS III ON HIGHER EDUCATION IN CROATIA

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IMPACT OF TEMPUS III ON HIGHER EDUCATION IN
CROATIA

• by Gordana Cukar,
• National Tempus Office, Croatia

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CROATIA COUNTRY PROFILE

• Land area 56.594 km2
• Population 4.493.312 (July 2007 estimate)
• Capital Zagreb
• Official language Croatian
• GDP p/c 13.400
• Labor force 1.720.000

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EDUCATION IN CROATIA

• The Constitution guarantees the right to primary
  and secondary education
• The new Scientific Activity and Higher Education
  Act came into force on August 18 2003 ?
  established the binary system
• professional ed. offered by polytechics
  independent professional HE institutions
• academic education offered by universities
• 7 universities with cca 80 faculties
• Strategic goal knowledge based society

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TEMPUS III IN CROATIA

• Croatia entered TEMPUS in 2000
• 68 JEP projects
• (44 Curriculum Development)
• (14 University Management)
• (10 Institution Building)
• 19 SCM projects
• all Universities participated
• various fields covered (agriculture,
  architecture, civil
• engineering, economics, education and
  trainer teaching, law, interdisciplinary studies,
  medicine, translation interpreting, etc.)
• cooperation with all EU CARDS countries

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TEMPUS III IN CROATIA POSITIVE IMPACT

• Strong effect on internationalization of
  faculties
• (73 members of international associations)
• Significant progress made on HE reforms and the
  implementation of the Bologna process (91
  institutions state that 50 of their curricula is
  in line with Bologna criteria)
• All institutions apply QA for teaching in all
  faculties
• Stronger interaction with students, new courses
  introduced, classes and labs equipped, libraries
  improved, projects attempting to decrease
  theoretical teaching and increase practice...

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TEMPUS IN CROATIAPOSITIVE IMPACT

• Changes in teaching methods and assessment
  processes
• Mobility of teachers and students (valuable
  experiences
• from abroad)
• Many young staff have upgraded their
  qualificiations and TEMPUS helped them complete
  their Master and
• Doctoral theses (helped them in career)

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TEMPUS IN CROATIACHALLENGES

• Improved cooperation between the University
  economic sector, but too few examples
• Little effect on the development of proffessional
  ed. and the relevance of too few curricula is
  checked against the labor market demand
  (recommendation use the program to support the
  development of higher vocational ed., bridge
  professional and academic education)
• Resistance from the older staff to changes
• More focus should be put on administrative
  support ? ECTS, internationalisation of the
  institutions, new teaching and assessment
  methods, more interaction with students...

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HE IN CROATIA WHAT DOES THE FUTURE BRING?

• Croatia should join the LLP in 2009 ? the
• next TEMPUS call probably the last one in the
• role of a beneficiary country
• Further harmonization with EHEA
• Further implementation of principles of the
• Bologna declaration

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NTO CROATIA

• e-mails gordana.cukar_at_azvo.hr
• vlatka.derencinovic_at_azvo.hr
• phones 385(0)16274850 (Gordana)
• 385(0)16274851 (Vlatka)
• fax [phone]
• address Agency for Science Higher Education
• Savska 41/VIII
• 10000 Zagreb
• Croatia

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COOPERATION WITH CROATIA

• University of Zagreb http//www.unizg.hr
• University of Split http//www.unist.hr
• University of Rijeka http//www.uniri.hr
• University of Osijek http//www.unios.hr
• University of Zadar http//www.unizd.hr
• University of Dubrovnik http//www.unidu.hr
• University of Pula http//www.ffpu.hr
• Ministry of Science, Education and Sports
  http//www.mzos.hr
• Agency for Science and Higher Education
  http//www.azvo.hr
• (National Tempus Office in the Agency!)

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• QUESTIONS
• COMMENTS?

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• THANK YOU
• FOR
• YOUR KIND ATTENTION
• ? ? ?

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