Volume/Issue :

Article type :

Original article

Page No :

8-18

Abstract :

In recent years, there has been a lot of discussion about the quality of studies and, in general, about the education quality. As we know, the quality of studies depends not only on level of motivation and cleverness of students, how well developed the infrastructure of institutions is and so on. Probably, even more, the quality of studies depends on scientific pedagogical personnel, the one, which directly determines the preparation of a future student. This article deals with problems related to the scientific production and scientific qualification evaluation. Also the article describes some characteristics of researchers and scientific production in general. Science, in some sense, has strong immunity, but in recent years, it has been rapidly weake-ned both internally and externally. Of course, we have to believe, that universities will understand that it is firstly on them to save and strengthen both quality of activities and prestige and develop real but not demonstrated science. Europe “has been having a headache” for a long time thinking how to withstand ever - strengthening competition with such regions as North America (especially USA), South-east Asia and so on.

Keywords :

scientific activity evaluation, academic staff, scientific production, universities

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Cite as :

Lamanauskas, V. (2011). Scientific production and scientific qualification evaluation: Some problematic issues. Švietimas: politika, vadyba, kokybė / Education Policy, Management and Quality, 3(1), 8-18. https://doi.org/10.48127/spvk-epmq/11.3.08