Abstract

Central systems for the quality of the higher education

Csulyák Gábor <>
Educatio Társadalmi Szolgáltató Kht.

Fejérvári Bence <>
Educatio Társadalmi Szolgáltató Kht.

Educatio Public Benefit Company

The goal of our current presentation is to introduce the Higher Education Information System, which has been developed and put in practice during the last two years. Besides we will give information about the Data Warehouse based Management Information System, which will be used to help the decision-making of higher education sector.

Introducing the Educatio Public Benefit Company
Educatio Public Benefit Company was founded by the Ministry of Education in 2000, in 2007 Diákbónusz Public Company and SuliNova Public Company were merged into the Company.
The main goal of the Company is to develop and operate services in public and higher education on the fields of methodology, content and registration development. Other important fields are the coordination of the implementations of the public education reform program and establishment of equal opportunity in education.

The Higher Education Information System
The Act on higher education coming into force on March 1, 2006, modified on September 1 2007, obligates the establishment of the Higher Education Information System. The main functions of this system are as follows:

ensuring the publicity of registered data managed by the Educational Authority,
establishing and maintain the database of higher education institutions,
supporting the implementation of obligations declared for higher education institutions by the Freedom of Electronic Information Act,
establishing and maintaining the registration data of students and professors,
registering study time of school attendance in higher education supported by the state,
registering certificates and degrees issued by higher education institutions,
implementation of certain statistical programs of higher education,
execute certain information queries regarding the management of higher education.
In the presentation we will introduce the development, testing and deploying of the Higher Education Information System highlighting the IT challenges, arise and resolving of problems.
The Data Warehouse based Management Information System
A project called ?Decision support system with data warehouse based index? was launched at the beginning of 2005 by the higher education department of the Ministry of Education and Culture.

Using the results obtained so far, this development - as part of the TAMOP 4.1.3 (Social Renewal Operational Programme) ? aims to serve this type of information demands of the Ministry.
The immediate goal of the project is to build up a central data warehouse that combines the academic, financial and other data bases of the higher education institutions as well as other central registers and also to work out an indicator number system and managing information system.
Another goal of the project is ? parallel to the development of the central data warehouse ? to provide support to the higher education institutions for the development of the institutional data warehouse and managing system that can guarantee the strategic and operational decision making at a local level.
The concept of the data warehouse based management system will be described in our presentation. We will introduce the planned systems and their background and the proposed steps of the development.

With this presentation we would like our audience to have a deeper insight into the services and procedures that are being developed.