Description
The IQ project assumes the introduction of an elite form of education into the university modes of teaching. This idea has been born on the basis of the lowering job satisfaction among teachers observed on the basis of both research on the topic of NQF, as well as on the voices of the wider heated debate over marketization of higher education in Poland. Open access to education, which induces problems with knowledge management, and consequently provokes change in the scope of teachers' competencies, are the main grounding ideas behind the project. Project's aim is to raise the teachers' competencies in order to make them ready to elicit the best potentials in the young people who decide for philological education in the era of globalization. The assumed outcome, reached by the means of 2240 hours of tutorials conducted by 32 teachers with 320 selected students shall be the development of graduates' competitiveness on the labour market and growth of satisfaction on both sides.
Summary of project results
The Project was meeting the needs for more personalized academic education in the Faculty of Languages ( and Social Sciences) , which are ones of the most mass Faculties of the University of Gdańsk when it comes to students' number. The major objective was two fold: first, to build the academic milieu of teacher-researchers who will undergo professional training in the areas of tutoring as a method of working with individual students, and secondly, to implement this type of study for those students who want to widen their horizons and develop personally and scientifically. Such initiative would not be possible systemically within a hierachical HE institution, where there was little chance for extra hours and extra money for such a solution. Trainins sessions turned out to be a perfect arena for collaborative learning for the 29 Project Participants. As a result, a new quality of cooperation, trust and academic professionalism was created. Almost 1600 hours of utorials for 222 students were again a fully successful chance to offer the best students a unique educational experience. Finally, three monographs were produced as the outcome: one written by 54 students, one by 13 tutors and one authored by Project Head ( covering results of research conducted during the project). In the long run, the Project initiated the changes in the institutional options for didactic training offered to teachers of the Univesity. The Department of Quality Teaching has run a set of workshops for academics, and the IQ Projec coordinator set up another mini-project, funded already by the university, called the UG Tutors' Center. This project involves regular meetings of IQ tutors in order to exchage good practices and learn about new methodological solutions good for the students. Additionally, the Dean of the Faculty of Langauges agreed to sponsor 12 tutors to run 30-hour-long new cycles of tutorials in the subsequent semesters of the academic years 2015/16 and 2016/17.
Summary of bilateral results