确保立陶宛的高质量职业和高等教育

Ensuring Quality VocationalandHigher Education inLithuania Higher Education Ensuring Quality Vocationaland Higher Educationin Lithuania This work is published under the responsibility of the Secretary-General of the OECD. The opinions expressed andarguments employed herein do not necessarily reflect the official views of the Member countries of the OECD. This document was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can inno way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union. This document, as well as any data and map included herein, are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty overany territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area. ISBN 978-92-64-34602-4 (print)ISBN 978-92-64-37519-2 (PDF)ISBN 978-92-64-49919-5 (HTML) Higher EducationISSN 2616-9169 (print)ISSN 2616-9177 (online) Photo credits:Cover © Prostock-studio/Shutterstock.com. Corrigenda to OECD publications may be found at: https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/support/corrigenda.html.© OECD 2025 Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. By using this work, you accept to be bound by the terms of this licence(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).Attribution– you must cite the work.Translations– you must cite the original work, identify changes to the original and add the following text:In the event of any discrepancy between the original work and thetranslation, only the text of original work should be considered valid.Adaptations– you must cite the original work and add the following text:This is an adaptation of an original work by the OECD. The opinions expressed and arguments employed inthis adaptation should not be reported as representing the official views of the OECD or of its Member countries.Third-party material– the licence does not apply to third-party material in the work. If using such material, you are responsible for obtaining permission from the third party and forany claims of infringement.You must not use the OECD logo, visual identity or cover image without express permission or suggest the OECD endorses your use of the work.Any dispute arising under this licence shall be settled by arbitration in accordance with the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) Arbitration Rules 2012. The seat of arbitration shallbe Paris (France). The number of arbitrators shall be one. Foreword Governments across European Union (EU) and OECD member countries recognise that high-quality external evaluation and quality assurance (QA) has the potential to enhance the qualityand relevance of the education and training offered by higher education institutions (HEIs) andvocational education and training (VET) providers. Dedicated agencies tasked with assuring thequality and labour market relevance of teaching and learning in higher education and VET havesupported the establishment of internal QA systems in education and training institutions.However,the work conducted by QA agencies is only one aspect of public policy to promotethe quality and relevance of teaching and learning. Increasingly, governments are reflecting onhowthey can mobilise other policy levers and actors in the system to support qualityenhancement. The LithuanianGovernment is committed to improving the quality, coherence and effectivenessof its external evaluation and QA systems for higher educationand VET. It wants to build awider eco-system of external supportsto help teaching staff in VET and higher educationinstitutions enhance their teaching practices, and to recognise pedagogical innovation. TheGovernment is also reflecting on how it can recalibrate other key policy areas, such asthe publicfunding system, the approach to collecting and using system-level data on teaching andlearning quality, or the governance of the network of VET and higher education programmesand providers,to influence teaching quality and drive skills development in Lithuania. Thisreport,produced as part of the Technical Support Implementation(TSI)project“Strengthening the system of evaluation and quality assurance in higher education andvocational education and training in Lithuania”,assesses Lithuania’s approach toassuring andenhancingthe quality and relevance of teaching and learning in higher education and VET.Using this assessment, the report offers recommendations and a roadmap to strengthen theexternal evaluation and QA systems implemented by the Centre for Quality Assessment inHigher Education (SKVC) and the Qualifications and Vocational Education and TrainingDevelopment Centre (KPMPC).It also offers recommendations and a roadmap to support thedevelopment of a wide range of other quality-focusedpolicies for higher educationandVET inLithuania. The analysis, recommendations and roadmap contained in this report are based on analysesof the Lithuanian high