Education Success Index - Measuring higher education reforms from the point of view of the beneficiaries
18.12.2009

 

 Today IPSC launched its last survey of 2009 entitled "Education Success Index" - a comprehensive measurement of the recent educational reforms in Armenia, their visibility, outcomes from the point of view of direct beneficiaries and policy makers.

Having done several researches in secondary education, IPSC has determined the key problems of the sphere and consulted the key decision makers on several burning issues of the sphere. However, it is the first time the higher education system is under the scope.

The methodology of the research combines qualitative and quantitative techniques and aims at in overall 1100 lecturers, students, decision makers, experts and professionals as well as graduates and former students.

The visions of the respondents, key informants, focus group participants will be summed up in a final report to be presented to the Government, Ministry of Education and Science as well as several beneficiary organizations in the late January, 2010.

Currently, this is the first research of this kind to be conducted in Armenia. The methodology of measuring the success in education is developed in IPSC in cooperation with various organizations from the field of higher education.