Professional support for organisations and individuals

Time period	2004 – ongoing
Funding	Ministry of Education, Science and Sport
Contact person	Jasmina Orešnik Cunja, Head of “Professional support for the development of quality in adult education” Phone: +386 1 5842 596 E-mail: jasmina.oresnik.cunja@acs.si

The purpose of this task is to provide professional support, information and counselling to educational organisations offering adult education who want to establish or develop their internal systems of quality and participate in external quality evaluations.

The professional support and counselling are available for:

• management of educational organisations;
• managers and organisers of adult education;
• leaders and members of quality committees;
• quality counsellors in adult education;
• teachers and mentors;
• other professional associates who encounter the issues of quality in adult education as part of their work.

 

By offering support, information and counselling, we help:

• establish and develop internal quality systems in adult education organisations;
• improve the competences of people working on the issue of quality within educational organisations;
• promote the use of different collections of quality indicators when evaluating and developing the quality of adult education;
• promote the use of modern information and communication technology in the process of evaluation and development of quality;
• promote the exchange of good practices related to the evaluation and development of quality between educational organisations;
• encourage educational organisations to combine their internal quality systems with external evaluations.

 

We offer support, information and counselling related to:

• different approaches and methods for the evaluation and development of quality in adult education;
• collections of quality indicators for adult education;
• professional literature and other study materials;
• use of the self-evaluation web applications developed by the SIAE;
• basic and advanced training programmes for the evaluation and development of quality in adult education;
• planning and implementing self-evaluation, preparation of self-evaluation reports, preparation of action plans, implementation of improvements, etc.; 
• organisation of adult education conferences which also address the issues of quality in adult education;
• establishing (or changing) quality committees in organisations offering adult education;
• understanding the legislation and regulations related to quality in adult education;
• implementation of activities that were selected as part of the joint actions of the quality counsellors’ network;
• preparation of an application to acquire or keep the right to use the Green Quality Logo (e.g. the process, the standards, the criteria);
• promotional activities related to systematic efforts for improve the quality of adult education;
• other questions educational organisations address to us.

Professional support and counselling to educational organisations that want to establish or develop their internal systems of quality are available all year long.

We offer professional support and counselling through the following channels:

• by phone,
• via e-mail,
• in person,
• in the e-classroom (network of quality counsellors).