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Comparative Analysis of Higher Education in Latvia, Estonia and Finland

Samanta Kuzņecova

ABSTRACT

The bachelor thesis consists of 4 chapters, the aim of which is to conduct a comparative analysis of the Latvian, Estonian and Finnish case studies by exploring and selecting criteria for the evaluation of higher education.
The first chapter will help to understand the quality aspects of higher education in Latvia, Estonia and Finland, as well as to get basic information about the number of students, universities in the selected countries.
The second chapter of the thesis aims at exploring and defining the criteria for the evaluation of higher education in order to provide an objective assessment of the quality of higher education.
The third chapter is devoted to collecting information on selected evaluation criteria for higher education in Latvia, Estonia and Finland. It will describe indicators such as: curricula relevance to the Bologna Process, presence of international students, employment rate of graduates, international reputation and university rankings, access to higher education.
The last chapter of the thesis focuses on the comparative analysis of the selected evaluation criteria, which emerges from the information described in the third chapter of the thesis.
Author: Samanta Kuzņecova
Degree: Bachelor
Year: 2024
Work Language: Latvian
Supervisor: Ph. D., Veronika Siliņeviča
Faculty: Transport and Management Faculty
Study programme: Business and Management

KEYWORDS

HIGHER EDUCATION, QUALITY, EVALUATION CRITERIA, STUDENTS, COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS