Enhancement of internal quality assurance of education in teaching, learning and assessment in HEIs of Azerbaijan and Russia

project summary: Quality assurance has been prioritized by the federal legislation and national education strategy in both partner countries, Russia and Azerbaijan. Legal quality assurance is a complex, multi-layered system of interrelated elements. In fact, legal guarantees only legally formalize the established economic, social and other mechanisms to ensure the quality of education. In the aspects of QA of HEI, Internal Quality Assurance (IQA) plays essential role. However, there is a fixed understanding within a broad community and stakeholders in RU and AZ that the quality of education needs to be enhanced due to inconsistency in IQA procedures on institutional and national levels in general.Project IQAinAR aims to support enhancement and development of the IQA of HEIs of partner countries with international (EU) quality standards as benchmark as well as strengthening the HEIs towards local, regional and national policies and strategies implementation. The IQA system has very broad spectrum, and this project will focus on two main areas of IQA of HEI: teaching (teaching, learning and assessment) and teacher (educator, practitioner researcher) as teacher plays key role of QA of teaching.Additionally, IQA lies within a culture of quality awareness, critical review and of continue-improvement attitude and actions within HEI’s. This project is aiming at supporting the further quality culture development within HEI’s of partner countries. This project will develop IQA Indicators and assessment scale based on International (EU) standards and practice. After evaluation of implementation further training programmes will be developed with full information and training package. During the project lifetime, the partners will not only train the within their own institute but reach out to all interested parties in IQA of the partner countries and give the project after-life through its open online platform with full resources and experts in implementation of the IQA system.