EDUCATION QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN THE COMPREHENSIVE COMPLEX BY MEANS OF INSTITUTIONAL AUDIT

Abstract

The article substantiates the need and features of education quality management in the comprehensive complex fulfilled by means of institutional audit. It describes the system of education in Ukraine and shows the main elements that provide stable effective development of relations aimed at rendering educational services therein. It outlines the concept of institutional audit and advantages of its application in modern realities. It presents the practical experience of using institutional audit abroad and proves the possibilities of its implementation in Ukraine. As concerns the implementation of institutional audit, the attention is focused on the Norwegian, Belgian and Czech systems of education. The arguments are provided for the necessity in education quality management through institutional audit, based on the need of educational sphere transition to a new format of interaction. The article presents the trends enabling to characterize the public administrative impact of institutional audit on the functioning of educational institutions, taking into account the positive experience of developed European countries. It defines the trends of educational sphere advancement and the place of institutional audit in this process. According to the conclusion reached in the article, institutional audit shall be implemented in the educational sector on basis of the complex approach by considering both foreign experience and Ukrainian realities. The methods used in the research were as follows: general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction methods, as well as the method of comparison.