Support for Quality Assurance within the National Primary and Secondary Education Examination System in Serbia

CfBT plans to tender for the above EC service contract to provide technical assistance to support the development and implementation of the quality assurance system for general education and vocational education. Priority will be given to the development of a national examination system and increasing the capacity of the Ministry of Education and other relevant institutions. The project will aim to ensure the following results:

  • Development of national models of the different final examinations in cooperation with the state institutions;
  • Preparation of material for handbooks and instruments for four types of final examinations/ matura in cooperation with state institutions;
  • Training of teachers, school principals and other relevant parties, who will implement the different final examinations;
  • Revision of existing databases of the student achievement results;
  • Analysis and evaluation of the pilot implementation of the different final examinations, including: support to pilot schools in using the results of the final examinations in their self-evaluation; national qualifications framework under development in two vocational education and training sectors linked to the proposed national examination system.

The provisional contract start date is July 2010, for 36 months.

CfBT is looking for the following experts:

Please note that in accordance with EC Regulations, all consultants who wish to be put forward as a Key Expert for an EC contract tender must provide documentary evidence of all previous employment included in their CV. The documents that should be presented must either be employers’ certificates or references.