出版社：Center for Quality, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Serbia
摘要：Quality of education is now an issue of global concern. The quality of education is one of the main mechanisms to improve the quality of life. The European Union pays great attention to the development of adult learning and education, development of models and mechanisms to assure their quality. This process is supported with some essential documents, such as UNESCO Guidelines for the Recognition, Validation and Accreditation of the Outcomes of Nonformal and Informal Learning (2012), and the Belém Framework for Action, adopted by the UNO in 2009. Today the European Commission for Education supports a number of projects, aimed at creation and dissemination of standards and quality models for all types of education, especially the lifelong learning. The survey, conducted in 2015 by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning for the Global Report on Adult Learning and Education (GRALE-3), reveals a clear relationship between level of quality of life and quality of the continuing education. In Russia there are no distinct lines to identify adult learning and education. All types of education are divided in two groups, depending on the level of state regulation:degree education and non-degree education. The first group includes general secondary, secondary vocational, and higher education. For the degree education, there are Federal state educational standards that define requirements for the content of relevant educational programs and conditions of their implementation. The non-degree education is not regulated by the State; its quality is completely determined by the requirements of the labor market, society, and a student himself. Therefore, considering the continuing education and training, we primarily focus on the non-degree education, and above all, on continuing education for adults. Of course, the papers presented here are not enough to describe comprehensively the issue of quality assurance in continuing education. They only outline the directions of research in this broad and extremely important area. And of course, we hope for further development of this theme within the International Journal of Quality Research (IJQR).
