IMPRESS

Student Recruitment

 

Recent statistics throughout Europe show that through changing demography,  the number of eighteen year olds will decrease over the next decade.  This will put severe strain on higher education systems. Ukrainian universities are used to a continuous supply of students and are unaccustomed to having to compete for them.   There is a need to enrol different types of students, such as lifelong learners, and also to improve the recruitment system so that the maximum number of ‘traditional’ students attend.  The aim of this work package will be to transform existing services to create an efficiently functioning recruitment service backed by specially prepared tests. The outcome will be that universities will be more efficient in accepting the right students and placing them in the right courses. The modus operandi will be to train the staff and prepare the tests in the first year, trial the system at the centre in the second year and run the service in the third year.

 

Two activities that will be pursued:

1. To precisely target the eighteen  year old's.  One novel idea is to design and use an Aptitude test on secondary school pupils to find a more efficient match.

2. To market and advertise the university in an effective manner.  This will not only involve printed material but also involve school visits and bringing pupils in their last year to visit the university. This needs coordination and training .

 

Two Recruitment Staff from each partner university will be selected and trained at Zlin. These will train two more when they return to their university. There will thus be a recruitment team of four people providing this service at each university making a total of 16 staff trained by the project. In the final year, a report of what has been achieved will be prepared by the centre.