15.10.2014, update on higher education reform project activities, ms b.tsetsentsolmon
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UPDATE ON HIGHER EDUCATION
REFORM PROJECT
ACTIVITIES
Project Goal: To increase the number of Mongolia's
globally competitive higher education graduates responsive to
labor market demands
Financing Organization: Asian Development Bank
Executing Agency: Ministry of Education and Science
Started Date of the Project Implementation: 10
January 2012
Project Completion Date: 31 December 2016
Project Components
1. Improved quality and relevance of
higher education programs
2. Improved effectiveness of higher
education governance, management,
and financing
3. Improved equity and access
Improved quality and relevance
1. 3 programs in priority disciplines /natural sciences,
engineering and technology, and agriculture/ are
accredited internationally
2. National QA and Accreditation criteria and procedure
development
3. Identification of 23 priority programs
accreditednationally
4. Enhancement of public-private partnership
5. Research capacity building and partnership development with top institutions
Improved effectiveness of HE governance, management,
and financing
Sectoral governance reform Recruitment of Consultancy Service for HE
Institutional level governance & managment Capacity building activities for imrpovement of
management and governance
HE finance New regulations to support competitive grant
mechanism
Improved equity and access
Improve gender sensitive policy and practice in HE
Increase the proportion of female baord members and
top management
Increase the proportion of mael ernrollment in HEIs
Rural HEI development
Procurement of e-learning center to promote distance
learning
Improve policy and management of rural HEIs
Social issues in HE workforce and students
Core reform frameworks 1. Institutional Reform
Legislative environment-higher education law amendment
Financial mechanism-Endowment fund
Organizational-Independent regulatory body and academic autonomy and governance of HEIs
2. Human Resource Development Continuous Professional Development
Research capacity
Upgrading degrees
Study tours
3. Improving capacity of HEIs through Information Technology
Management Information System for HEIs
E-learning and distance learning centers, digital library, and e-testing
E-book, e-academic reference database
Progress of performance tasks
Institutional Reform
Working group for law amendment of HE law
Draft law to extend current State Training Fund’s scope of work to establish Higher Education Fund which offers competitive grants for research and organizational development of HEIs and student loan
Human Resource Development
Study tour and training at Stanford University to learn sound practices of governance and PPP
Researching quality training courses in abroad to prepare national Trainers of Trainers
Developing concept of Center of Excellence
Improving capacity of HEIs through Information Technology
IT development working group is working to integrate IT infrastructure for MEDS and HEIs
Preparing for procurement of e-learning centers and e-library
Other activities done to support major reform
1. Stakeholder meetings and workshops
Credit System- Opportunity- Implementation
Improving the system of State Training Fund
Establishing Research University System: Issues and Solutions
Improving Graduate Schools
2. Processing of bid documents for
Consulting service for overall project implementation
Provision of equipment and learning facilities for 7 rural HEIs
Consulting service for Social Study
Consulting service for MIS
3. Capacity building training
Improving internal quality control through internal audit units
Consultancy Service
HE Responsiveness to Labor Market
HE Monitoring and Evaluation
HEManagement Information System
Higher Education reform /international/
Individual consultants in financing, human resource
development, law and accreditation
Capacity building External training – quality assurance, curriculum
development, professsional development and HE studies
Internal workshop training – HE curriculum reform, accreditation, gender equality, rural HEIs, legal framework
Completed tasks
Procurement
Supplying office furniture and equipment to rural 7 HEIs
Renovation work of 8 HEIs
Supplying Laboratory Equipment for 2HEIs
Major planned activities in 2014
No Planned activities Cost
1 Capacity building training USD 138,800
2 Workshops /20 times/ USD 99,850
3 Supply of furniture and equipment to 7 rural HEIs USD 192,500
4 Supply of furniture and equipment to 22 HEIs USD 1,802,900
5 Consulting service USD 1,462,200
6 Benefit Monitoring Survey, Social Survey, and Tracer
& Labor Market Survey
USD 425, 000
7 Management Information System USD 110, 000
8 Study tour USD 360, 000
TOTAL USD 4,301,250
Intermediate objectives
Competitive grants To support new initiatives of teaching and learning by
HEIs (MOOC, OER, blended learning and flipped classrooom projecrts)
Research capacity of faculty Joint research grants
New initiative grants for faculty development
Fellowship grants to faculty members
Reserach grants for doctorates
Thank you for your attention!