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DOCTORAL STUDIES QUALITY ASSURANCE AT UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA WITH EMPHASIS ON STUDIES IN CIVIL ENGINEERING

During 2005 all study programmes at Croatian universities underwent reforms according to Bologna declaration. Within the changes, the existing university postgraduate doctoral studies were reformed and the new ones started. There are 11 active postgraduate doctoral studies at the University of Rijeka today, among which the postgraduate university doctoral study of Civil Engineering performed by the Faculty of Civil Engineering was also started in 2005. In order to assure the quality of doctoral studies and increase the doctoral studies completion rate at the University of Rijeka the Postgraduate Studies Evaluation Board together with the Centre for Science and Centre for Quality Improvement of University of Rijeka has made the assessment plan for all doctoral studies and conducted the doctoral studies implementation evaluation at the University of Rijeka. The evaluation was based on self-evaluation report, doctoral student surveying and doctoral studies development plan. This paper specially refers to the evaluation of university postgraduate doctoral studies at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Rijeka, as well as to the recommendations made in order to improve this study. In implementing the doctoral studies evaluation, the Faculty of Civil Engineering has recognized the possibility of a systematic quality analysis of this study, the results of which are the base for its improvement. In our opinion, the doctoral studies evaluation model established at the University of Rijeka and the experience made during the implementation at the Faculty of Civil Engineering are worth presenting to the representatives of facilities engaged in education of civil engineers as an example of good practice.

Bologna declaration; study programme reform; postgraduate university doctoral study; evaluation; postgraduate doctoral study of civil engineering

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