The strategic plan for the development of Lviv Polytechnic until 2025 includes a number of changes related to the automation of certain processes. Pavlo Zhezhnych, Vice-Rector for Education and Informatization, told about the implementation of an information system for monitoring the performance indicators of the University’s educational and scientific activities and its topicality for Polytechnic.
– Tell us, please, what kind of system it is and who developed it?
– The system was based on the ideas that Rector of our University Yurii Bobalo presented in his science articles a few years ago. He wrote about a set of quality indicators that allow assessing the effectiveness in the University. These theoretical developments became the basis for the development of an information system for monitoring the performance of educational and scientific activities of the University.
The Center of Information Support worked on its creation. An appropriate group has also been set up to consult on setting requirements for this system. It included Vice-Rectors and leading Professors of the University. Already at the end of 2019, this system was put into test operation.
– How does this system work?
– On the basis of certain input indicators of the University it allows to calculate qualitative indicators of efficiency and to compare them with normative values which are established by the results of the analysis of the previous activity. At the beginning of its implementation, the system operated with general indicators at the University level, but now it has a continuation and is developing in the direction of managing the performance of Institutes and Departments. Every year Lviv Polytechnic conducts ranking of the Departments and the monitoring system is developed so that next year we can automatically calculate the performance indicators of all levels.
– What criteria does efficiency depend on?
– Input indicators are numerical data that characterize the activities of the University. Also – the number of students, cash receipts from certain activities, etc. This is also the number of publications – science articles, conference materials, monographs, etc.; and grant applications. In fact, we collect all this information every year to rank Departments. The data on the functioning of the accounting system and the personnel is also added. This is the total number of employees and the number of academic staff who defended candidate’s and doctoral theses. Based on this, we derive qualitative indicators.
