Moroz S.

Candidate of sciences (Public Administration), Senior Research Officer of Training Research and Production Center, National University of Civil Defence of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION OF SCIENTIFIC AND PEDAGOGICAL ACTIVITY AS A TOOL FOR IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION QUALITY

DOI: 10.52363/passa-2022.2-9

Abstract

Assurance of higher education quality is constantly maintaining within the framework of professional and scientific attention of public administration subjects and scientists. The issue of staff provision of educational activities as well as management of staff risks in this field is becoming a significant obstacle for improving the quality of higher education in Ukraine. Individual professional certification of scientific and pedagogical activity can be considered as one of the mechanisms of personnel risk management. The institutionalization of the tools of professional certification of scientific and pedagogical activity, as well as its results, will contribute, on the one hand, the regulation of the content and practice of implementation of educational programs, and on the other - improvement of the procedures of the competition for the replacement of vacant posts of scientific and pedagogical workers. Using the instruments of certification, the state will have an opportunity to form a trajectory of the labour potential development both directly to scientific and pedagogical workers, and to the Institution of Higher Education and higher education system as a whole.
Implementing norms of professional activity, obligatory presence of which is expected by the procedures of certification, will allow the subjects of formation of state policy in the sphere of higher education to promptly adjust the direction of professional development of science and pedagogic workers.
Using by the state of tools of professional certification of science and pedagogic activity and its results in the final case will positively impact both, the effectiveness of public administration in the sphere of assurance of higher education quality in Ukraine and the quality of functioning of higher education system in general.

Key words: assuring of higher education quality, mechanism of public administration, higher education quality, institution of higher education, professional certification, scientific and pedagogic activity.

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