Integration of the Study Programmes´ Quality Assurance to the internal quality management system in Russian Universities

The paper describes the progress in the implementation of the international Tempus-project EQUASP “On-line Quality Assurance of Study Programmes” (543727-TEMPUS-1-2013-1-IT-TEMPUS-SMGR). Some problems of soft integration of elements of the European system of quality assurance with the Russian quality management system in higher education are clarified; possible ways of overcoming of determined barriers are discussed.