Assessment of education quality: impact of economic transformation

In times of economic transformations laking place in many countries all around the world, the quality of education offered by an institution of higher education is to a large extent determined by its ability to adapt to the quickly changing environment. This requires a new strategy of quality assurance, quite different from that applicable in more stable situation. This, in turn, requires a new approach to the assessment of education quality. Based on our experience with the restructuring the system of study at the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, Warsaw University of Technology, we propose a set of criteria that reflect an effort taken to adjust to the changing environment and the preparation of an institution for continuous changes in the future. We believe that such criteria should be more frequently encountered in the procedures for quality assessment in higher education - existing ones and those under development, especially in the countries that quickly transform their economy.