St. Clement of Ohrid University of Bitola

To create integrated university with provided quality in all segments of its functioning, thus having recognizable values in the higher education area in Republic of Macedonia, placing the student in the focus of the university functioning.

The realization of the mission, more than ever, imposes mobilization of the existing professional staff and other potential, which, through the forms of the university functioning and the bodies and organs of the University, as well as trough the everyday commitments, will create conditions for successful development.

The first cycle of studies lasts for three or four years. The students acquire 180 or 240 ECTS credits after they finish their studies. Upon completion of the undergraduate studies the students acquire a Degree for professional studies (for three years’ study programs -180 ECTS) or a Degree for academic studies (for three or four years’ study program – 180-240 ECTS). The undergraduate academic study programs enable the students to enter the second cycle of university studies. The academic title the graduates acquire upon finishing their studies is bachelor. In its separate units, UKLO realizes the following academic and professional studies:

The academic university studies in the second cycle last one or two years. Upon completing these studies the students acquire 60 or 120 ECTS. These studies can last longer if it is in accordance with the internationally accepted standards. The basic condition for enrolling the second cycle is completing the first cycle education. The student who acquired 300 or 360 ECTS is awarded the title master.

The functioning of UKLO is built upon the principle of uniting the two fundamental activities, that of teaching and that of research. The University, respecting the principles of the Bologna Declaration and the Declaration of Salamanka that refer to the inseparability of science and higher education, introduces and conducts a unique policy of equal treatment of the two activities.

The academic units that represent the structure of UKLO are accredited for executing the scientific and research activities, but due to certain social conditions, such activities are not always performed with the desired intensity or dynamics. Still, there are certain UKLO units that have achieved great success in numerous applicative and developmental research projects in the academic areas of their particular interest.

UKLO academic staff is constantly involved in projects of great scientific significance that represent constituting parts of large scientific and research programs, that run in the Republic of Macedonia and takes active part in them.

The ever-growing number of doctoral thesis contributes to the intensifying the scientific and research activities and to the active inclusion of younger academic staff as potential researchers.

University quality assurance policy is the basis for improving its functioning and development by strengthening the institutional capacity for successful adaptation to the social needs and proactive response to processes of changes.

The quality assurance policy is the continuous building, improvement and spreading and cherishing of quality culture, stimulating and developing of positive values in realization of the university activities as well as in wider social environment, by an installed system that applies to all institutional structures, policies, processes, internal and external stakeholders.

The quality assurance policy is reflected in the strategic plans and objectives and it is being implemented in various fields of institutional working, in accordance with the and national and international standards and quality directions which need to be complement to each other.

The main objective of the quality assurance system is to achieve the highest quality level of the higher educational, scientific research, artistic and applicative activities, as well as professional and administrative work of the University and its units.

The basic prerequisite for the fulfillment of the system objective is critical observation of the existing conditions of the University, as well as the promotion of quality culture in all of the University working areas.

The purpose of the University quality assurance system is to establish principles, criteria, procedures, actions and methods for quality assurance, in line with the provisions of the national and international legal acts.

The standards and guidelines for quality assurance of higher education, adopted by the European institutions and other organizations and associations, responsible for their establishing and application, as well as the guidelines for evaluation of higher education in European area, are the basic principles of the system.