SWOT of the educational programmes of the Humanities Faculty in RSU
S – Strengths
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High quality academic staff;
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Low tuition fee;
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Wide range of specialties at all three levels of higher education;
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Scientific research institutions and language centre;
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Educational programmes in compliance with the European Credit System;
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Transparency and flexibility of the educational programmes (general and additional courses);
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Students’ self-government.
W – Weaknesses
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Programmes oriented at the general and theoretical knowledge, insufficient level of specializing;
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Requires improving the process for practical skills-building for the future work (system of the
practical classes and seminars, professional training, and internship for beginner specialists,
etc.);
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Weak links to the employers, insufficient consideration of the market demand;
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Low level of using modern technologies and innovative teaching methods;
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Slow pace in improving the logistics;
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Low involvement of students and academic staff in international programmes due to poor
mastering of foreign languages;
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Insufficiently unified programmes;
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Lack of the common database of the employment centre;
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Small segment of the labour market where humanities graduates are employed.
О – Opportunities
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Improvement of the existing educational programmes via cooperation with the employers;
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Elaboration of new programmes for re-training of specialists according to new demands of the
marker;
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Activating modern technologies and innovative methods of teaching;
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Creation of the common employment database;
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Participation in the international and local tournaments and projects;
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Fruitful cooperation with local and international universities;
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Activating exchange programmes for students and academic staff;
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Integration into the European education system in the frame of the Bologna Process;
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Close cooperation with the Georgian Ministry of Education and Science, the National Centre for
the Quality of Education;
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Improvement of the quality of education using the internal and external mechanisms of control;
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Search for the additional sources of financing.
T – Threats
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Lack or lower interest in humanitarian studies;
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Disbalance between the English philology and other specialties in the range of humanitarian
studies;
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High competition from bigger and more prestigious universities;
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Low employment rate of graduates (especially in terms of employment in specialty);
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Complex economic circumstances affecting the paying ability of students;
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Limited budget resources hampering the development of the infrastructure;
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Possible increase of the tuition fee due to the economic situation.