ENSURING THE QUALITY OF GENERAL SECONDARY EDUCATION: CURRENT CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

Abstract

The article highlights the current possibilities of ensuring the quality of general secondary education. New tools for assessing the quality of education are analysed, in particular, the internal system of quality assurance, institutional audit, public accreditation, certification of teachers, and monitoring of the quality of education. It is stated that in Ukraine, the main components regulating this process are: at the level of quality assurance in the activities of governing bodies and institutions that carry out external quality assurance of education - the mandatory policy and procedure for ensuring the quality of their own activities; availability of necessary
resources for the organisation of processes and procedures; external independent audit of activities (processes and procedures) of relevant bodies and institutions; at the level of external quality assurance of education tools, procedures and measures to ensure and improve the quality of education; at the level of educational institutions (internal quality assurance system) is the availability of a strategy and procedure for ensuring the quality of education in educational institutions; the mandatory nature of the system and mechanisms for ensuring academic integrity; criteria, rules and procedures for evaluating students (published); criteria, rules and procedures for evaluating the pedagogical (scientific and pedagogical) activities of pedagogical and scientific and pedagogical staff (published); criteria, rules and procedures for evaluating the management activities of senior staff of the institution.