Session A: Changes in University Organisation and Structure |
Kestutis Pocius , Giedrius Deveikis , Darius Braukyla , Marijus Jurgutis : Admission to Lithuanian Universities: |
Until 1999, having the pure Legal Bases and State Regulation of HE system every Lithuanian HE institution was fully involved into its annual admission process more or less closely connected to its own Information System (IS). Several IT means and instruments are in usage to support the admission processes and provide the Ministry with documents for consideration and reporting accordingly. Though the common admission system is a case of the concept of the LieMSIS project, some of HE institutions started to promote this initiative before now.
Against all the odds two major Lithuanian universities, Kaunas University of Technology and Vilnius University, were novice introducing the unified application form for secondary school applicants and creating the IS for the Common Admission.
Founded in 2000 Lithuanian Universities' Council on Admissions (LUCA) started managing all common efforts in the development of a consolidate IS for the admission. At the same time there was organized the Executive Committee as well as established a Team of IT professionals. All organizational structures were founded on the base of universities‘ representatives working on admission issues.
The i) Common Data Set on admission, ii) admittance regulations, and iii) admission procedures are a collaborative effort of LUCA‘s membership. Under the supervision of Ministry, this public order takes effective power and is published annually [3]. Already by tradition, admittance regulations are split into general and institutional parts. When a university joins LUCA, it begins a collaborative work in the development of the infrastructure to support its local admission office and pupils who learn about new IT usage, digital signature, private data protection, and other key aspects necessary for them to function in the open IS effectively.
LUCA aims at improving the quality and accuracy of information provided to all involved in pupils‘ transition into higher education, as well as assisting universities in compiling and reporting information.
Table 1: LUCA‘s activity profile
Year |
LUCA‘s members / full members |
Applications received |
Study programs offered |
Study programs / Entry exams required |
1999 |
0 / (KUT+VU) |
15244 |
93 |
93 / more than 93 |
2000 |
0 / 5 |
14200 |
181 |
87 / 40 |
2001 |
10 / 7 |
16000 expected |
230 |
40 / 25 |
2002 |
(15+7) / 22 expected |
20000 expected |
? |
? |
Initially having ten associated members LUCA is intended to grow in the nearest future (there are 7 active members now, 15 Universities and 7 Colleges in Lithuania in total). A number of study programs offered might look quite large still the study programs are treated as different even if they differ only in a study form (full- time, part-time, etc.). Other important aspect is the fact that a number of entrance exams is decreasing: there is presented a dynamics of the ratio Study programs / Entry exams required in the Table 1.
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