INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS

The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) was founded in 1997 and is one of the leading organizations monitoring and advising on standards and quality in the UK higher education. The mission of the QAA is to maintain academic standards and improve the quality and global reputation of higher education in the UK. The Agency maintains close relationships with many international quality assurance agencies, governments, higher education institutions and student organizations with the common goal of supporting students in achieving success.

www.qaa.ac.uk

The Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP) is a leading specialized accreditation association for business education supporting, celebrating, and rewarding teaching excellence. The association embraces the virtues of teaching excellence and emphasizes to students that it is essential to learn how to learn.

ACBSP accredits business, accounting, and business-related programs at the associate, baccalaureate, master, and doctorate degree levels worldwide. Recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) in 2001 and again in 2011, ACBSP was the first to offer specialized business accreditation at all degree levels.

www.acbsp.org

ACPUA is the official agency for the evaluation of higher education in the region of Aragon (Spain). It was set up in 2005 by Law of the regional Parliament. Its legal status is that of an autonomous body (public law entity), with own legal personality and its own assets and capacity to attain its objects. ACPUA is a full member, together with ANECA and the rest of Spanish agencies, of the Spanish Network of University Quality Agencies (REACU). ACPUA is an affiliate member of ENQA -European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education.

www.aragon.es

The Agency’s mission is to develop and promote the quality culture in vocational education, higher and continuing education, contributing to greater economic competitiveness and social cohesion in the Republic of Moldova.

The aim of the Agency is to ensure an integrated, reliable, objective and transparent system of external evaluation and accreditation of institutions and study programs in vocational education, higher and continuing education in the Republic of Moldova.

www.anacip.md

National Center for Professional Education Quality Assurance was established on November 2008 to implement reviews, analysis, advising services and assessments in the field of professional education.

ANQA contributes to the development of public trust, community cooperation, responsibility and competitiveness in Armenian society through systematic enhancement of quality assurance in higher education.

The aim of the center is to set quality assurance system, which is supportive by considering the needs of national stakeholders, corresponds to international standards and provides visibility at international level.

ANQA is an affiliate member of ENQA -European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education and a member of International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE).

www.anqa.am

The Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation Austria (AQ) is an independent agency for quality assurance, accreditation, certification and evaluation of all types of higher education institutions. AQ develops and conducts procedures of quality assurance in accordance with national and European standards. It has been actively working in Austria and other European countries.

www.aq.ac.at

ASIIN e. V. is a registered association in accordance with the law of the Federal Republic of Germany.This alliance was first founded in 1999 as the non-profit association ASII for the accreditation of degree programmes in engineering an informatics, which rapidly expanded to ASIIN in 2002 by including the fields of natural sciences and mathematics.

Since 2000, ASII or ASIIN has the right to award the accreditation seal of the German Accreditation Council, in addition to the ASIIN quality seal. In 2008, there were further expansions of the activities of ASIIN e. V. such as the establishment of panels, criteria, and procedures for the evaluation of QM systems in studying and teaching and the related admission by the German Accreditation Council.

www.asiin-ev.de

Estonian Quality Agency for Education (Eesti Hariduse Kvaliteediagentuur, HAKA), formerly known as the Estonian Quality Agency for Higher and Vocational Education (Eesti Kõrg- ja Kutsehariduse Kvaliteediagentuur, EKKA), continues the work of the Estonian Higher Education Accreditation Centre and the Estonian Higher Education Quality Assessment Council that operated from 1997 to 2008. HAKA was established on January 1, 2009.

haka.ee

FIBAA is a European, internationally oriented agency for quality assurance and quality development in higher education. We see ourselves as a partner for Higher Education Institutions and comparable education providers. The disciplinary focus of our activities is on management studies, law, social sciences and economics.

With many years of experience and our large network of experts we accompany and support you in every step of your quality strategy.

FIBAA aims at maintaining and improving the quality of education through the examination and award of quality marks for educational programs and institutions. FIBAA`s goal is to make education more transparent to the labor market, business, students and higher education institutions.

www.fibaa.org

The remit of the High Council for Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (Hcéres) is defined by the Law of 22 July 2013. Its core values are independence, transparency and fairness. Its method is based on a commitment to the evaluated institutions, a commitment to accompany them and to be a partner in their progress.

www.hceres.fr

MSA-CESS accredits preK-12 public, private, parochial, charter, non-degree granting career and technical post-secondary institutions, special purpose schools, supplementary education centers, learning services providers, and distance education institutions.

MSA-CESS traditional region includes Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia, as well as 85 countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the Subcontinent of Asia, and other regions around the world. In recent years, through its cooperative partners, CESS has expanded its scope to include schools and institutions seeking accreditation throughout the United States and around the world.

www.msa-cess.org

A subordinate agency of the Federal Service for Supervision of Education and Science (Rosobrnadzor). The activity of the federal state budgetary institution "NAA" is based on the management system that meets the requirements of international standards for management and quality assurance of education, and is aimed at ensuring the external quality assurance of education and promoting the recognition of student learning outcomes in Russian educational organizations at national and international levels.

FSBI "NAA" carries out its functions in accordance with the state task of the Federal Service of Supervision in Education and Science within the scope of the delegated powers for state accreditation of educational organizations in order to ensure the objectivity and detachment of the decisions made.

www.nica.ru

NCPA is an autonomous nonprofit organization. It was established in 2009 on the initiative of the Guild of Experts in the Sphere of Professional Education and other legal entities to organize and carry out accreditation of higher education institutions.

NCPA's mission is to enhance the quality of education and to form a quality culture in educational organizations; to research and disseminate the best practices of quality assurance in Russia and abroad; to improve the image and support the openness of Russian education through the accreditation of educational programmes and educational organizations in accordance with international quality assurance standards, taking into account Russian legislation and the best traditions of Russian higher education.

www.ncpa.ru

The Polish Accreditation Committee (PKA) is the first independent institution established by a legal act of the highest importance and working in the higher education system in Poland to improve the quality of education in all state and non-state higher education institutions, which form a system authorized to carry out conformity assessment with the requirements necessary to ensure education and assessment of its quality in the first, second, and third cycles of education, postgraduate programs and assessment of the activities of the main structural units of universities.

The Polish Accreditation Committee is an organization of experts that analyzes the state of higher education and is responsible for carrying out systematic measures to improve the quality of education. The assessment carried out by this committee is mandatory, and a negative assessment by the committee may lead to suspension or revocation of authorization for the program to operate in a particular field of study and at a certain level of study, based on a decision of the Minister responsible for higher education.

www.pka.edu.pl

Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education (SKVC) is an independent public agency established in 1995. The Centre implements the external quality assurance policy in higher education in Lithuania andcontributes to the development of human resources by creation of enabling conditions for free movement of persons. The Centre was founded by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania as an expert institution.

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www.skvc.lt

According to the relevant decree signed by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on December 29, 2019, the Department of Accreditation and Nostrification of the Ministry of Education was reorganized into the Agency for Quality Assurance in Education with the status of a public legal entity . The agency is a professional and expert body in the field of independent assessment of the quality of higher, secondary and additional education based on the standards adopted in Azerbaijan and in the world.

(TQTA) determines the quality levels of educational programs and ensures that requirements are met. In fulfilling its duties and exercising its rights, the Agency interacts with state bodies (institutions) and municipalities, international and non-governmental organizations and other legal entities and individuals.

www.tkta.edu.az

The non-governmental institution "Agency for Accreditation of Educational Programs and Organizations" is a non-profit organization with the status of a legal entity established to increase the competitiveness of vocational education of the Kyrgyz Republic through accreditation.

The purpose of the Agency is to conduct institutional and program accreditation of educational organizations, the development of methodology, technologies, standards and criteria for the accreditation of educational programs and vocational education organizations. Accreditation is aimed at improving the quality of educational programs and the effectiveness of educational institutions.

www.aaopo.kg