Bionika v tehniki

The evaluation of the Ptuj College to prolong the accreditation its study program Bionics in Engineering was carried out by a group of experts in accordance with the recommendations, criteria and criteria set by the National Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Quality Assurance in Higher Education. We assessed the study program according to five standards within the area of Internal quality assurance and enhancement, change, update and delivery of study programmes. In 3 quality standards, study program meets quality standards without non-compliance, in two quality standards we found noncompliance with quality standards, and in one study program partially meets quality standards. Non-compliance with quality standards was first identified due to the shortcomings in ensuring the quality cycle, as certain inconsistencies in the evaluation of the institute seven years ago have still not been eliminated, and the quality assurance process itself is more formal than the desire to develop and improve the college. The second set of inconsistencies is related to the fact that Ptuj College does not use unified value of hours within one ECTS credit point. In some cases have courses with the same ECTS credit points different number of total hours. Even worse, there are occasions where some courses have more hours than allowed by law. In identifying the advantages, we point out the main competitive advantage of the college and it study program: is the focus on perspective topic of bionics, which should attract more attention of students and the environment in the future. The lecturers are experts in their field, but none of them is employed in Ptuj College. As the college operates within the School Center Ptuj and has additional agreements for infrastructure with other institutions, the material conditions for the implementation of the study process are good from this point of view. It should be noted that the enrolment status of students at the college in the academic year 2021/22 is alarmingly low, as the structure is currently composed practically only of students who are finishing graduation. From this point of view, the evaluation of the study program was even more difficult, but this is also one of the reasons why certain activities of the institution are also difficult, as well as internal quality processes or. self-evaluation. At this point, the members of the group would like to thank all those who made sure that the college visit went smoothly: Gregor Rebernik, SQAA expert, college management and all other stakeholders for constructive cooperation in interviews.