On April 14th, 2015, representatives of the IQAA visited the offices of the Aragon Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ACPUA) in Zaragoza, Spain. The President of IQAA, Professor Sh. Kalanova conducted a seminar on the higher education system in Kazakhstan. Representatives of IQAA presented the higher education system in Kazakhstan and explained the ways of how the…

The 5th ENQA General Assembly was held on 16-17 October 2014, Zagreb, Croatia. This Assembly was hosted by the Croatian Agency for Science and Higher Education (ASHE). The main topics for discussion in course of the 5th ENQA General Assembly included the Strategic Plan of the ENQA for 2016-2020 and the revision of the procedure of the external review…

The Independent Kazakh Agency for Quality Assurance in Education informs that in the period from February 5 to 6, 2014 in Astana, there will be a holding of two workshop seminars. The work of the first seminar (February 5) will be focused on the training of experts for participation in preliminary and external audits in framework of the institutional…

During the seminar the drafts of the Internal and External Evaluation Standards and the Procedure for Institutional Accreditation of TVET Organizations developed by the IQAA within the framework of the World Bank's project "Modernization of Technical and Vocational Education", were presented by order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan.Within the framework of the…

In December 2009, for the first time in history of Kazakhstani education there was a holding of the first independent national accreditation of a higher education institution. The first successfully accredited educational institution in Kazakhstan is Karaganda Economic University. The accreditation was conducted by the Independent Kazakh Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (IQAA). Karaganda Economic University was accredited…