DIVISION OF LIFELONG EDUCATION, CAREER PLANNING AND GRADUATE CENTRE
Based on the letter of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan dated 8 October 2018 № 03-11-1620/15 and in accordance with the Article 24 of the Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan "On Education" approved by the decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan dated 19 June 2009 Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts was allowed to provide Supplemental Education in compliance with the “Requirements on content, organizing of supplemental education and the issuance of relevant document to persons trained in any direction of supplemental education” approved by the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan № 163 dated 6 September 2010.
With this aim in 2020 Supplemental Education department was founded under the Teaching and Quality Assurance department of Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts. Teaching Department was established in 2022 following structural changes in the University.
Lifelong education, Career Planning and Graduate Centre was established in Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts in accordance with the National Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan approved by the "State Strategy for the Development of Education in the Republic of Azerbaijan" and the Decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan № 311 dated 18 July 2018 based on the Decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan № 995 dated 19 January 2015.
The Centre is engaged in collecting documents on any direction of supplemental education and organizing learning process, preparing normative documents for the direction of Business Organization and Management within the MBA program, organizing education process, involving specialists with relevant skills and sufficient professional experience in teaching process, ensuring supervision over organizing production practice in Bachelor's programme, and pedagogical, pre-diploma, creative, scientific-research and scientific-pedagogical internships in Master's programme, developing a database of students and graduates.
To ensure the implementation of subsection 3.3.3 of the "Action Plan on the Implementation of the State Strategy for the Development of Education in the Republic of Azerbaijan" the Centre provides short-term specialist training in the University in accordance with the National Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan approved by the Decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan № 311 dated 18 July 2018. Lifelong education, Career Planning and Graduate Centre is headed by the Honoured teacher, Doctor of Philosophy in Art Studies, Associate Professor
Gulnara Mammadova.