VbSEUA experience in adaptation of study programmes to the needs of local market

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TEMPUS PROJECT KICK-OFF MEETING

INFORMATICS AND MANAGEMENT:

BOLOGNA-STYLE QUALIFICATIONS

FRAMEWORKS

530601-TEMPUS-1-2012-1-PL-TEMPUS-SMHES

Coordinator: MARIA CURIE-SKLODOWSKA UNIVERSITY


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STATE ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY of ARMENIA (Polytechnic)Vanadzor branch

VbSEUA experience in adaptation of study

programmes to the needs of local market

Armen Kharatyan, Director

11-15 February, 2013

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Foundation of VbSEUA: 1959

Mission:

- To promote regions social economic development,

industrys rehabilitation in regional perspective spheres,

as well as information technologies and other fields.- To develope regions engineering, economic and research

resources according to Lori region industrys development and

market demands.

Faculties: - Natural sciences and information systems,- Technologies and cluster economics

Students: ~ 600

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VbSEUA Specialties available

1. Civil engineering

2. Traffic organization and

management

3. Economics and management of

enterprises

(in mechanical engineering

field)

4. Exploitation, management and

construction of vehicles and

roads5. Mechanical engineering

6. Light industrys

technology

7. Power engineering

8. Chemical engineering

9. Software engineering

10. Exploration and

processing of mineral

resources

11. Metallurgy and material

science

VbSEUA Specialties presented for

liciense

1. Information technologies

2. Computer design4


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The report should be viewed as the SEUA's reports ("SEUA

experience in adaptation of study programmes to needs of

local market, reporter G.Markarov) localization in VbSEUA,

taking into account regional, stakeholders and our needs and

specifications as well.

VbSEUA certainly uses general university educational

programs and applies all related regulating processes to

curricula being the SEUA Branch.

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The Specialties programs and curricula, organized by VbSEUA,

are being developed by our institution, due to regional needs, in

accordance with the relevant legal requirements, passing all the

required processes (curriculum project development, expertising,

collection of internal and external stakeholders opinions and

conclusions, discussion and preparation of the final documents).

All these processes are described at the SEUA's report in detail.

The similar process was carried out in 2012 for "Construction,

manufacturing of construction goods and structures specialty,and now, for the modern and regional labor market demanded

specialties: "Information Technology" and "Computer Design"

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VbSEUA Partners

VbSEUA is cooperating with about 25 partners.

5 key partners in IT sector, in the format of

cooperation of which are existing:

- participation in educational process, including the examinationprofessional committees,

- practical and methodological support as well as productional and pre-

diploma practices,

-extra-curricular activities (training courses,

seminars, competitions, conferences, etc.),

- recruiting of the best graduates.

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Engineering enterprises

Vanpolimed Ltd Qimprom CJSC

Valeqs-Majning Ltd Tech. Project Ltd

Trade-industrialcenter of Lori region

Diktis Ltd

Slatsq CJSC Milaren Ltd

Avtogen-M Ltd Sagamar Ltd

Debed CJSC Beton Ltd

A.Hakobyab Ltd V.Aghababyan Ltd

Gloria companyHigh voltage electric

networks branch

IT&Educational

Orange

Armenia

Instigate

design

Businesscenter

Computerdesign and

trainingcenter

MVK Ltd(Computercenter)

9 regionalcolleges

Others

Vanadzormunicipality

ConverseBank

Road policeunit

Vanadzorautostation

Special partner

Regional employment office11


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The Instigate Design company (IT)

has already had 3 years competition

and training courses experience for

students and alumni the most of

which are employed (over 10 in thelast 2 years).

A wireless Internet access point was

established in VbSEUA by support of

Orange company, and 18 students

were awarded scholarships. Joint job market was organised with

Regional Employment Center, apart

from VbSEUA is a member of the

Lori Employers Union.

Best experiences of cooperation

with partners

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Potential partners and processes

Enterprise Incubator Foundation, Lori region Administration, RA

government and World Bank (Technology Centers establishment,

on the base of the VbSEUA 2 buildings),

New robot-engineering modern audience establishment (

National Instruments )

Computer lab and electronic library establishment (Hayastan

All-Armenian Fund)

SEUA partners resources (Microsoft, Synopsis, Kaspersky Lab 13


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Educational process and practices at partner

enterprises Vb SEUA students use their knowledge,

intellectual tools in reality and move closely

with the requirements of organizations and

companies.

Vb SEUA is making efforts to give reasonable

balance between theory and practice, fluent and

creative knowledge application in the area ofspecialization.

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Qimprom CJSC

Slatsq CJSC

High-voltage eletric network CJSC branch

VbSEUA Lab


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Darbinyan Stelissa light industryLtd

Armenian CooperProduction company Road police unit

Instigate design CJSC,educational center

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The main goals and expectations:

The wider objective is to contribute to further improvement of

VbSEUA by developing sectorial qualifications frameworks for

informatics and management , due to regional market needs as well

as to our Strategic program.

The specific targets are:

to establish a platform for stakeholder active collaboration for

identifying qualification requirements for students in the fields of

informatics and management;

to develop sectorial qualifications frameworks (SQF) in the fields ofinformatics and management;

to operationalize SQFs by introducing new learning outcomes for

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VbSEUA Team and members roles

Managament and administrative project team

(3 professionals) Project coordination, strategy,

policy, official meetings and other arrangements,QA processes.

Academic content related project team

(5 professionals) Cooperation with employers,

contracts, data/information base establishment,

links with alumni.

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VbSEUA experience in adaptation of study programmes to the needs of local market