Ensuring the Quality of Additional Professional Education in Higher Educational Institution on the Basis of a Standard Quality System

Abstract

Modern development of additional educational services makes it necessary for educational organizations that provide such services to use tools to guarantee the quality of education. The international and domestic scientific communities in the field of additional professional education (APE) have developed and successfully introduced into educational practice a three-level trajectory of confirming the quality of education implemented by educational organizations: institutional, program and qualification trajectories. An educational organization that operates in the field of additional professional education can choose any option to confirm the quality of its activities.However, practice shows that for a higher education institution where additional professional training is a subsystem of its quality management system (QMS), the institutional trajectory, which provides for the development, implementation and confirmation of compliance with the QMS of APE, seems to be the most important. Therefore, it is proposed to adapt the standard model of quality system (ISO 9000 & ENQA) to the specifics of additional professional education. This standard model has a modular and hierarchical structure that allows to integrate APE QMS into QMS of a higher education institution quite easily.The approach proposed in the paper to guarantee the quality of additional professional education implemented by higher education institutions, based on APE QMS, and having a modular and hierarchical model of the quality system (ISO 9000 & ENQA), will ensure the quality of training of students of professional educational programs.