1. Agency for Science and Higher Education
News 2017
IAAO Stockholm Igor Drvodelic

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

3. 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

4. Accreditation recommendations

5. Accreditation recommendations

6. Croatian Employment Service

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

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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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 applicants
Using a state of the art software we provided information about college program to analyse behaviour and search patterns

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

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

16. 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

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

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

19. 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

20. National graduate survey

21. Graduate tracking

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