About information systems as integrate component of studies programs and necessity to invoke adequate information systems

In the last section mentioned consideration that description of the knowledge and practical skills got from program, set of the program modules and digest of the important literature, potential indicators of the methodical and material equipment should be complemented by generally known or created by program authors’ information system, which has expanded information about possible challenges for particular speciality from both practical skills allowing professionally deal with activities tasks, inadequacy and unknowing of decision methods viewpoints. These are most often

important attribute of studies program quality. Also it is a means for students who are going solo to increase benefit got from studies program.

Naturally, that mentioned risks on knowledge and its conversion to the practical skills, as rule, can not to become direct object of the academicals and practical lectures or practical exercises because the credo of the studies is preparation for particular speciality. Preparation for the possible risk challenges is separate problem requiring several decision means and methods. Thus, also according to the shortening duration of studies, especially important is to create information system or to use already existing one in order to see particular speciality in the risk challenges context.

Programs from both general value and separate value strains creation viewpoints very important place should to take in specialists’ preparation for possible risk challenges. Thus, programs organizers and administrators also users and assessors should to understand, that students ability to work self-dependently should be complemented by students ability to overtake him as “programmed” professional answering to risk challenges. Most effective this problem is tackling involving students into science-research activity and giving for them knowledge about riskiness of the future possibilities and possibilities to manage this riskiness.

The force of the studies program conveys not just by abilities of students education to know the processes they interested in but also by unclosing new possibilities of that processes development and giving abilities for future professionals to use those possibilities. This is especially effective search way of the studies and science research synergy.

The implementation of the last three paragraphs of this section is not possible without functioning of studies programs infrastructure information system, principles of which are discussed in the next section (Fig. 1).

Figure 1 The scheme of the general possibilities of interactions between studies programs and its information STUDY PROGRAM

The digest of modules

Means for practical skills education External and foreign relationships

Scientific, information accumulation and usage skills

I N FO R M AT I O N

S Y S T E M

Information about demand changes in labor market and international relationships development

Information about innovations and science results possible influence to activity, for which specialists are prepared

Knowledge about possibilities, tools and methods to manage risk of studies programs Information about knowledge and practical skills inadequacy to possible changes

In many cases, information system is understood as an entirety of definitions, opinions and consistent patterns formatted in base system together with hypothesis of characteristics of base system and information needful for decisions, which are necessity for achieving purposes. In our case information system is a digest of knowledge entirety about base system, for example investment processes development requirements, goals and its achievement possibilities based on most important factors – knowledge and intellect power of coming professionals and real activities estimated with possibilities requirements’ investments. It should be together with seeing how to train mentioned power and to estimate demand and possibilities.

The object of this section is FF studies programs complex, which is pointed to create knowledge and skills entirety, which, from one side, lets to meet students’ interest to get package of knowledge and practical skills giving competitiveness advantages in labor market for a long time and to safe ability to refresh competitiveness knowledge and practical skills in the perspective, from the other side, lets to guarantee that business, which will become user of graduates’ knowledge and skills, would be ensure about creation of added value and graduates’ flexibility reacting into changes of environment and work processes.

Teaching institution, which aims to achieve all goals perfectly, needs to attain students having proper preparation and intellect and who also aims their goals reasonably. Business, in turn, using the great asset of country – intellectual potential should be responsible for efficient practice of it and future development guarantee. To see this and to promote is the obligation of every government.

Great loss for country could be when young people, requesting largest investments, are wrong identified, when intellectual career education is prosecuted by teaching institutions having not enough competences, when supply of specialists is not adequate to real demand, when it is incapable to use created valuables – young specialists.

3.2. Base provisions of formation of FF studies programs complex. The complex of FF studies programs is oriented into such prospective professionals’ career education, which would guarantee possibilities of perfection for him and also would enable him to use acquired knowledge and practical skills seeking social, economical and intellectual development of Lithuania during the integration into beneficial EU and global structures. The quality of studies is recognized as the main means for implementation of most important goal of studies complex.

3.3. Presumptions and resources of implementation of FF studies programs. High intellect level of bachelor and master entrants and labor markets’ practical demand of specialists trained in the faculty could be declare as main presumptions for successful implementation of studies programs complex3. As the main improve for presented arguments is high average of studies of entrants and high level of placement of FF graduates.

The main resources of FF, giving knowledge and skills, are high qualification of lectures, plenty of knowledge necessary for every specialization or profession, high international mobility of students during studies and, most important, very purposeful accumulating and also generating in faculty knowledge, which creates the corona of graduates’ knowledge. Accumulating and generating knowledge usually has double mission. First, it is oriented into high performance of graduates’ knowledge and skills. Second, it is oriented into promotion of business development possibilities in the sphere, for which faculty is preparing specialists. Strong synergetic effect is received in the case of success also storing and generating knowledge joins in knowledge base or information system formation (Barkhi ir Williams, 2010).

Here (Fig. 1) we would like to represent the main moments of interaction between studies programs and its information system. Information system could include the possibilities of

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methodical and material equipment or could be analyzed as the subsystem complementing mention possibilities.

Further we will represent (Fig. 2) real information systems serve as studies programs’ information systems in order to educe the requirements for students entering to bachelor and master studies and also to define skills of those, who works after FF studies graduation.

3.4. The particularities of organization of FF studies programs complex implementation. From Fig. 1 we can see that decision about demand of necessary knowledge and practical skills is taken analyzing macro economical, social, integration and other macro goals in their interaction with solution of social problems, search and implementation of business development strategies, investments as most active and unique means in order to impact development of Lithuania and, maybe, its’ survival, also to ensure national, technological, intellectual, organizational maturity and its’ dynamics.

Fig. 2 lets us to understand in which goals’ and interests’ hierarchy level necessary knowledge is accumulated and guaranteed for concrete studies program or specialization and also scientific researches, which, from one side, are necessary for modern and long-lasting knowledge formation for future professionals and, from the other side, for incentive of business development in spheres where FF graduates should and could be in the lead.

In order to guarantee successful way to mentioned leadership for students, who chose bachelor or master studies at FF the singleness of intellect, readiness and motivation is needed.

3.5. The principles of individual program (specialization) selection. FF maintains limited number of programs on the same time – two of bachelor and two of master studies. In order to ensure the flexibility of these programs large number of specializations, which are prepared on the base of information system and gives particular knowledge, is prepared. The selection of specializations in concrete period usually proceeds following special procedure (Fig. 3):

• according to forecast of specialities and professions dynamics made in EU, Lithuania and other countries with analogical or reachable social-economical development, the list of most expected and popular in Lithuania professions is formed;

• according to current knowledge systems and it’s refreshable possibilities, proper specializations are selected;

• the competitiveness in labour market of specialists prepared of FF specializations is estimated;

• the levels of entrants’ readiness, intellect and motivation for specializations are forecasted; • the decision about concrete specialization is made;

The team, which should implement programs, specializations refreshing information systems and other required means is formed.

Figure 2 Hierarchical scheme of information systems interaction detailing ( ) rising demand and preparing and integrating feedback ( )

• This procedure is prosecuting according to requirement maximally by specialization to supply the interests of all in this process participating sides, i.e. specialist to-be, business, university and government (Fig. 2).

SETDIS – Social, economical and technological

development information system

BUDIS – Business development information system

INNVIS – Investment information system

REGCDIS – Regional competitiveness development

information system

SUDIS– Sustainable development information system

REGDRIS – Regional development risk information system

Speciality, which lets to realize interests of professional to-be, business using his

capabilities, university qualifying specialists and fostering their activities

arsenal and government, which is responsible for country’s future.

School graduates, who intellectually and objectively are ready for studies at university and reasonably reaching for speciality, which has competitiveness in market and long lasting value,

and readiness to react into all profession requirements’

changes Government, which is

responsible for saving and education of most important resource of country – „genetic fund“

Business, which is interested on

specialist’s capability to create added value, readiness to participate in business management and technological development and flexibility FF, which reaches to dispose studies’ programs able to

competitive in the country and international level and adequate scientific