Received: 2020-12-15  |  Accepted: 2021-04-10  |  Published: 2021-06-30

Title

Measuring and evaluating education quality of future public administration employees at private university in the Slovak Republic


Abstract

The private School of Economics and Management of Public Administration in Bratislava educates experts for public administration in Slovakia through bachelor and master study programs. The high percentage of graduates employed in governing bodies and municipalities proves the high quality of theoretical and practical level of education. The scientific and pedagogical personnel and particulary the ingenious and comprehensive education quality control system has its share in achieving distinct results. The authors of this article present a well-established system of education quality. They analyze and evaluate the system of quality measuring and evaluating using internal tools and procedures. The article pays special attention to the external form of quality measurement and evaluation through independent international institution Trendence. Criteria and areas of evaluation are assessed throughout the university, Slovakia, and Europe, which is presented by more than 1,000 higher education institutions.


Keywords

public administration, employer of public administration, quality measurement


JEL classifications

I21 , I23 , I24 , I28


URI

http://jssidoi.org/ird/article/68


DOI


HAL


Pages

213-228


Funding

The paper is the output of a scientific project IGA 1/2018-M “Benchmarking model - Intelligent Portfolio for Quality Measurement and Management of Education at Bulgarian and Slovakia Higher schools".” (Funder: VSEMvs IGA VSEMvs, i.e. School of Economics and Management in Public Administration)

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Authors

Cibák, Luboš
School of Economics and Management of Public Administration in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia http://www.vsemvs.sk
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Kollár, Vojtech
School of Economics and Management of Public Administration in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia http://www.vsemvs.sk
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Filip, Stanislav
School of Economics and Management of Public Administration in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia http://www.vsemvs.sk
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Journal title

Insights into Regional Development

Volume

3


Number

2


Issue date

June 2021


Issue DOI


ISSN

ISSN 2345-0282 (online)


Publisher

VšĮ Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

Cited

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