{"id":41261,"date":"2021-12-05T18:35:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T18:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.upjs.sk\/internal-quality-assurance-and-verification-system-kat_id-2280\/powers-and-responsibilities-kat_id-2831\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T09:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T08:45:13","slug":"powers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.upjs.sk\/en\/internal-system-evaluation-quality\/powers\/","title":{"rendered":"Powers and responsibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Responsibilities for quality assurance at UPJ\u0160 are defined in particular by<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slov-lex.sk\/static\/pdf\/2002\/131\/ZZ_2002_131_20210401.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Act no. 131\/2002 Coll.<\/a> on Higher Education,<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slov-lex.sk\/static\/pdf\/2018\/269\/ZZ_2018_269.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Act no. 269\/2018 Coll.<\/a> on quality assurance in higher education,<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upjs.sk\/public\/media\/2062\/statute-of-upjs-2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Statute of UPJ\u0160<\/a> and UPJ\u0160 Organizational Rules and its parts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quality verification at the UPJ\u0160 level is coordinated by <a href=\"https:\/\/intranet.upjs.sk\/op\/op.Public.php?documentid=5879\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Board for Internal Quality Verification at Pavol Jozef Safarik University<\/a>, which is an independent advisory body of the Rector of UPJ\u0160. The independence and complexity of quality assurance is emphasized by the representation of students and external experts on the board.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upjs.sk\/en\/university\/Internal-system-evaluation-quality\/study-programmes\/\">The quality of study programmes<\/a> is guaranteed by the Study Programme Boards and the Doctoral Study Departments Committees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Study Programme Boards consists of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">presons responsible for the study programme,<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">selected persons responsible for teaching profile subjects,<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">student representatives,<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">employers\u2018 representatives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upjs.sk\/en\/internal-system-evaluation-quality\/inauguration-habilitation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The quality of the habilitation and inauguration procedures<\/a> is guaranteed by the Councils for verifying the quality of the habilitation and inauguration proceedings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The main actors in the process of quality assurance and verification at UPJ\u0160<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"3\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background-color: #ffcc99; text-align: center;\" width=\"50%\"><strong>QUALITY ASSURANCE<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color: #ffcc99; text-align: center;\" width=\"50%\"><strong>QUALITY VERIFICATION<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\" width=\"50%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upjs.sk\/en\/university\/university\/management\/rector-and-vice-rectors\/\">Rector and Management of the university<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\" width=\"50%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/intranet.upjs.sk\/op\/op.Public.php?documentid=5879\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Board for Internal Quality Verification at Pavol Jozef Safarik University<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\" width=\"50%\">Deans and faculty managements<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\" width=\"50%\">Study Programme Boards<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\" width=\"50%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upjs.sk\/en\/university\/university\/management\/academic-senate\/\">Academic Senate of UPJ\u0160<\/a> and academic senates of the faculties<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify; vertical-align: top;\" width=\"50%\">Departmental commissions of doctoral studies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\" width=\"50%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upjs.sk\/en\/university\/research\/scientific-and-research-activities-phd-studies\/scientific-board\/\">Scientific Board of UPJ\u0160<\/a> and scientific boards of the faculties<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\" width=\"50%\">Council for verifying the quality of the habilitation and inauguration proceedings at UPJ\u0160<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\" rowspan=\"2\" width=\"50%\">University teachers and researchers of UPJ\u0160<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\" width=\"50%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upjs.sk\/en\/university\/university\/management\/board-of-trustees\/\">Board of Trustees of UPJ\u0160<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;\" width=\"50%\">International Council of UPJ\u0160<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">List of documents<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/intranet.upjs.sk\/op\/op.Public.php?documentid=5879\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Statute of the Board for Internal Quality Verification at the Pavol Jozef \u0160af\u00e1rik University in Ko\u0161ice<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/intranet.upjs.sk\/op\/op.Public.php?documentid=5888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rules of Procedure of the Board for Internal Quality Verification at Pavol Jozef \u0160af\u00e1rik University in Ko\u0161ice<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responsibilities for quality assurance at UPJ\u0160 are defined in particular by Act no. 131\/2002 Coll. on Higher Education, Act no. 269\/2018 Coll. on quality assurance in higher education, Statute of UPJ\u0160 and UPJ\u0160 Organizational Rules and its parts Quality verification at the UPJ\u0160 level is coordinated by The Board for Internal Quality Verification at Pavol &hellip; 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