IMPROVEMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY PROGRAMME ON THE BASE OF MODULARITY

Abstract

The curriculum “Computer Systems” of RTU faculty’s of Computer Science and Information Technology is developed on the basis of classical teaching principles. The curriculum is accredited for 6 years till 2013 on academic bachelor, professional school after bachelor’s degree, master and doctoral levels.
Despite of the current positive state RTU Institute of Applied Computer Systems (IACS) taking advantages provided by European Social Fund in Latvia is implementing a set of projects directed towards improvement of the educational curriculum “Computer Systems” and the quality of studies. Total amount of the implemented projects is 486800 Latvian lats for the period from October, 2005 till August, 2008. The necessity of revision of learning process, its content and objectives is determined by the following factors: Latvian Republic accession to the European Union; explosion of industry; a new standard of Informatics for secondary education in Latvia.
The aim of the paper is to introduce readers to practical exploitation of opportunities provided by ESF in the improvement of IACS’s learning process, competitiveness of IACS’s graduates and valuable inclusion of Latvian Republic into the common EU scientifi c and educational area.