Transcript B.Rivza_Atenas_2012_Workshop

MENTORING IN LATVIA UNIVERSITIES
Baiba Rivza professor,
Latvia
VISION
It is important to have the vision, especially in
the time of economic downturn, both,
 in a national level ( Latvian National development
plan in Latvia 2009-2013,Latvia 2030) and
 in a community level, like, EU strategy “Europe
2020”
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EUROPE 2020 STRATEGY
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Europe 2020 puts forward three mutually reinforcing priorities:
– Smart growth: developing an economy based on knowledge
and innovation.
– Sustainable growth: promoting a more resource efficient,
greener and more competitive economy.
– Inclusive growth: fostering a high-employment economy
delivering social and territorial cohesion.
EU headline targets:
– 75 % of the population aged 20-64 should be employed.
– 3% of the EU's GDP should be invested in R&D.
PRIORITY FIELDS FOR THE RECOVERY- LATVIA
EXAMPLE
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It is important to have at least mid term forecast for the demand and offer
of the labor market (Prepared by the Ministry of Economics in Latvia)
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To change the development model towards knowledge and innovation based
added value production economy
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Identified and set priority fields for economic recovery in midterm
perspective (prepared by the Ministry of Economics and approved by the
Cabinet of Ministers 10.11.2009) (electronic and telecommunication
devices, pharmacology, devices for the radiological etc diagnostics, medical
devices, chemical materials, instruments etc as well as several services)
PRIORITY FIELDS FOR THE RECOVERY- LATVIA
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It is important to ensure the education of the
specialists, necessary for the fields important for the
economic recovery
State financed budget plases in the priority fields –
natural sciences, mathematics, engineering, IT,
building and construction, agriculture, health,
environment, transport, creative industries
STUDENTS IN LATVIA HEI
TOTAL NUMBER OF STUDENTS: 129 503
Students of 19
state HEI
Students of
state colleges
Students of 15
private HEI
84 816 (66%)
5605 (4%)
33 718 (26%)
Students of
private
colleges
5364 (4%)
Full time
students
74 381 (57%)
Students financed
by state 30 179
(23%)
Part time
students
55 122 (43%)
Studying for the
fee 99324 (77%)
TO ENSURE STABILITY – THE CENTRAL
ROLE HAS TO BE DEVOTED TO TRIANGLE –
EDUCATION, RESEARCH, INNOVATION
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For development of innovation, both, highly
qualified human capital and competitive
research, are necessary
Several important tasks:
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First of all, to assure the governments to recognize
even in crisis that education is public responsibility
Improvement of the quality of education to acquire
better skills and competences
To enhance the collaboration between educational
establishments and employer organisations
TASKS FOR MENTORS
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To motivate the students choose the study disciplines
in respect with the state needs
To develop lifelong learning system to allow to keep
the competences online with fast changing needs of
the globalised economy and labor market
It is necessary to increase the regional and
international cooperation!!
Latvia
University of Agricultur
EDUCATION
Providing both higher academic and
proffesional education in all 9 faculties:
Agriculture
 Veterinary Medicine
 Food Technology
 Engineering
 Forest
 Economics
Rural Engineering
 Social Sciences
 Information Technologies
MENTORS TASKS AT THE LUA
Encouraging first year students
 Supervision of the final thesis for bachelor,
master and doctoral studies
 To help to students – young mothers
 To promote students research
 To promote professional carrer
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THANK YOU
FOR YOUR ATTENTION!