In 2015, Academia Institute of Technology Maribor was the first institution in Slovenia to embark on the path to excellence according to the Higher Vocational Colleges excellence model. Within the framework of the 8th Quality Conference of the Community of Higher Vocational Colleges of the Republic of Slovenia in 2018, it became the first private institution in Slovenia to receive the Community of Higher Vocational Colleges diploma for excellence.
The Community of Higher Vocational Colleges diploma for excellence is the highest recognition of the Community of Higher Vocational Colleges in the field of achieving excellence. It is awarded on the basis of assessment according to the Higher Vocational Colleges Excellence Model (hereinafter referred to as MODEL OVSŠ).
The concept of business excellence can be understood as a reflection of supreme quality and reliability, as the highest ideal and ultimate level of quality to which organisations should strive as a result of the consistent and lasting commitment of employees to quality.
Summary of the assessment commission's findings
"Academia is a private institution that has implemented a quality system according to the ISO 9001 standard and numerous elements of excellence into its operations, which it demonstrates through the presented approaches and results of measurable indicators.
Through its many years of work and persistent improvement of its processes, it is a role model for short-cycle higher education institutions at home and is internationally comparable.
In the assessment process, through progress and achieving a higher number of points, it has proven that the achieved results are the fruit of the best approaches for realising set objectives, years of systematic work on introducing new internationally comparable study programmes and numerous innovations, on connecting with short-cycle higher education institutions at home as well as with world-renowned educational institutions from 30 countries, on cooperation with numerous business and non-business organisations, on effective continuous improvement of processes, taking into account the PDCA cycle and updating study content, premises, equipment and knowledge on the path to excellence."
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Source: Academia (7. 11. 2018). Fotografije: arhiv Academie.
This English summary was produced automatically from the Slovenian article and is pending editorial review. Slovenska različica
