In the period 5th to 8th of June, a visit to higher education institutions in Montenegro, as part of the pilot evaluation of the supplementary standard on academic integrity (standard 11. Mechanisms of academic integrity and strengthening the culture of integrity) was conducted.
The evaluators, Carolyn Campbell OBE, MA LLB (University of Glasgow) and Stamenka Uvalić-Trumbić (international expert in the field of higher education), hired by the office of the Council of Europe, interviewed the representatives of higher education institutions during 4 days in Montenegro about the challenges and ways of applying the principle of academic integrity at institutions and on that occasion gave proposals and suggestions for improving the application of the supplementary standard.
The supplementary standard that will be used during institutional evaluations was developed through the “Quality Education for All” project with the support of the Council of Europe office in Podgorica. The pilot evaluation aims to test the standard through its practical application at higher education institutions. In this way, an evaluation of the standard will be obtained, that is, recommendations on whether the standard needs to be improved and adapted to the needs of the Montenegrin higher education system. Also, the pilot evaluation will help higher education institutions to test their internal quality assurance systems through the assessment of the degree of fulfillment of all criteria defined by the supplementary standard on academic integrity.
The pilot evaluation of the supplementary standard is carried out by the Agency for Control and Quality Assurance of Higher Education, the Ethics Committee, and the office of the Council of Europe in Podgorica.