Agency for Science and Higher Education News 2017 IAAO Stockholm Igor Drvodelic igor@azvo.hr

Central application of graduate study programs 2016 – 16 HEI’s 2017 – 52 HEI’s  Goal is 100% of HEI’s

Central application of undergraduate study programs Plan is to start using new system NISpVU2 for undergraduate study programs in 2018 Currently in process of testing

Accreditation recommendations

Accreditation recommendations

Croatian Employment Service

Groningen Declaration Network ASHE signed the Declaration in Melbourne at Groningen Declaration Meeting

EMREX Unfortunately our EMREX+ proposal was not accepted by Erasmus+ for funding ASHE was a partner We are committed to continuing in production

eIDAS Electronic IDentification, Authentication and trust Services is an EU regulation on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market In 2017 we have connected our system to the eIDAS test node and established successful connection with Austrian eIDAS node We will be implementing eIDAS credentialing system for applications to undergraduate study programmes

Blockchain We have started to explore potential uses of blockchain technology in our system and as of next application cycle we will have blockchain backed application tracking in full production

Demand for College, College Choice and Information Asymmetry Research in collaboration with the Princeton University Understanding of market design and matching 6 years of historical data and 1 year of RCT on 35 000 applicants Using a state of the art software we provided information about college program to analyse behaviour and search patterns

Demand for College, College Choice and Information Asymmetry Test welfare improvements from a static to a dynamic The application process and our experiment is two folded: learning about oneself and learning about the state of the world DA algorithm is using to assign students across programs

Demand for College, College Choice and Information Asymmetry Understanding college choices College choice can determine life trajectories Important policy question - discrepancies between demand and supply on the market Improvement of matching mechanisms Factors that affect college choices Our goals: reduce uncertainty and improve matching on the market through a better information design

Analysis of the current state and needs in Secondary Education High drop out in Higer Education – 40% Most at the first year of study Institute for Social Research 60 schools Students of the first, third and fourth grade Teachers and principals Recommendations for improving student information

Students satisfaction Exploring some aspects of student experience in the generation of students enrolled in 2012 Online survey The total number of sent questionnaires - 19609   Response rate - 13%  

Students satisfaction Three aspects of student experience: Student practice General support for students Vocational guidance 52.3 % of students have no practice 62.6% of students have a support and counseling service at their higher education institution

Graduate tracking We conduct a national survey of the employability of graduate students a year after graduation Survey is sent to 12.590 graduate students 57% response rate

Graduate tracking We conduct a national survey of the employability of graduate students a year after graduation Survey is sent to 12.590 graduate students 57% response rate

Graduate tracking Methodology: Forms with contact information from graduates who finished their studies in 2016 collected in collaboration with HEIs Research conducted in collaboration with the Faculty of Organization and Informatics, University of Zagreb Deadline of the analysis: December 2017

National graduate survey

Graduate tracking

National graduate survey Information for candidates: employment posilibilities job related to study job satisfaction time for the first employment after finishing a certain study…