Curricular Reform at Serbian Agricultural Faculties: achievements of the TEMPUS JEP towards meeting the needs for rural development
- Publikations-Art
- Vortrag
- Autoren
- Poleksic V., Pekic Quarrie S., Cupina B., Petric D. and Drochner, W.
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2006
- Tagungsname
- 8. CHAE-Symposium
- Tagungsort
- Prag
- Tagungsdatum
- 07.-08.09.2006
- Schlagworte
- Curricular reform, Serbian Agricultural Faculties, Tempus JEP
The paper presents the progress on the curricular reform through the Tempus CD JEP Project: "Reform of Agricultural Higher Education in SCG" at 2 major agricultural faculties in Serbia. The other participating institutions are: University in Hohenheim (Germany) and Aristotle University in Thessaloniki (Greece). This Tempus project is to support the reform of education in the field of agricultural sciences at faculties of agriculture in Belgrade and Novi Sad bearing in mind the needs of the needs of the rural development and labour market demands as well as the expected increase in demand for knowledge and expertise in the agricultural sciences. In particular, the project will contribute to the development of the new modules of undergraduate curriculum, retraining of scientific staff and improvement of academic and educational skills, upgrading and modernisation of teaching and communication equipment, development of teaching methodology and introduction of inter-active learning principles. Leading principle in curricular reforms is to profile the programme for general agricultural education in such a way that it can later lead to a more thorough specialist knowledge development in a wide range of directions all based on the sustainability principles. This widening of the study programme is necessary to provide the students with the knowledge to cope well with the new working environment and to give them skills directed towards profitable agricultural production, farm management, information Systems and technologies and, thus to contribute to the sustainable rural development. One of the major outcomes of the HE curricular reform process in agriculture is defining the learning outcomes at all levels: from modules to the study programs. This will also help government to create national framework of qualifications for agriculture.