SYNERGY OF PROJECTS AIMED AT EDUCATION QUALITY ASSURANCE

Questions regarding evaluation of quality of education and issue of ensuring and improving the quality of education have been resonating worldwide for a longer period. Their solution has become central to national strategies of school policies in all EU countries. Although evaluation and assurance of the quality of education can be done in relation to its different dimensions, beyond dispute the key factor of the education quality phenomenon are teachers and their professionalism. In the paper main goals and particular results of two projects are presented, which Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra (Slovakia) is currently participating in. One of these projects is an international project of the EU program Erasmus+ Enhancing Capacities in Implementation of Institutional Quality Assurance Systems and Typology Using Bologna Process Principles (IQAT project) and the other one is a national research project Evaluation of Teachers Competences. The IQAT project is aimed at dissemination of experiences of the EU countries with the introduction and use of the internal quality assurance systems in tertiary education institutions outwards to higher education institutions in Asia. The goal of the project Evaluation of Teachers` Competences is to create tools applicable for evaluation of quality and qualification of teachers` educational activities. Together with the main goals the paper presents also research methodologies used within both of these projects as well as some of the already achieved results. Beside that it points out the synergy of both projects resulting from their philosophy and mutual applicability of their results on the behalf of education quality enhancement.