PRIORITIES OF HIGHER EDUCATION QUALITY IMPROVEMENT: STUDENT AND TEACHER ATTITUDE.

Higher education quality improvement is a constant and continuous university activity and its implementation should be given a priority. This article analyses the most important tasks set at three Lithuanian universities seeking to improve higher education quality: the improvement of higher education quality assurance system, teacher professional development and student achievement improvement. These dimensions of higher education quality are characterised by assessment criteria, used as the basis in revealing student and teacher attitude to priorities of higher education quality improvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]