Two days of the Ukrainian Quality Assurance Forum (UQAF–2024) successfully finished!
International event brought together more than 800 participants from all over Ukraine and our foreign colleagues.
The opening plenary session “The Future of Education in Ukraine” was held with the participation of Ruslan Stefanchuk – the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Oksen Lisovyi – Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine, Oleh Nemchinov – Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, Andrii Butenko – Head of the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance and Vadym Tkachuk – Rector of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine.
Despite the air raids and russian attacks on Ukraine, 15 fruitful events took place during the Forum, including 7 panel discussions and 7 presentations of best educational practices. One of the panel discussions speakers were European higher education quality assurance institutions leaders from Croatia, France, Germany and Belgium: Vesna Dodiković-Jurković – CEENQA, ASHE, Sophie Guillet – Hcéres, Henning Schafer – ZEvA, Nataliia Stupnytska – OSCE Support Programme for Ukraine, Patrick Van den Bosch – ENQA, VLUHR QA. In addition, a poster session of exemplary accreditations of study programmes was held during UQAF–2024.
The event has become a unique large-scale platform for discussions where experts, educators, scientists, Members of Parliament, representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, employers and students exchanged views and suggestions of the higher education quality assurance system development in Ukraine.
We are grateful to the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine for their hospitality and support, as well as to everyone who joined UQAF–2024. See you next year!
