Strategic Plan

STRATEGY FOR THE EURASIAN CENTRE FOR ACCREDITATION AND QUALITY ASSURANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION AND HEALTH CARE (ECAQA):

STRATEGIC GOAL:

Modernization of the quality assurance system in health professions education through the enhancement of internal and external quality assurance mechanisms at the institutional and national levels, increasing the competitiveness of health professionals and healthcare in country and internationally.

STRATEGY FOR IMPROVEMENT THE NATIONAL QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEM IN HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION

1. Capacity building and sustainability of the ECAQA as specialized accreditation center
   1.1 Establishment of the legal framework and providing operation and sustainable development of the accreditation center
   1.2 Ensuring the registration of the specialized accreditation center in the register of the authorized body in higher education


2. Organizational and methodological ensuring of accreditation procedures for internal and external evaluation of higher education organizations and educational programmes education
   2.1 Implementation the standards for institutional and specialized (subject-specific programme) accreditation
   2.2 Development the guidelines for procedures of institutional and specialized (subject-specific programme) accreditation
   Involvement competent experts in accreditation process
   2.3 Involvement competent experts in accreditation process
   2.4 Establishment a database of national and international experts
   2.5 Implementation of a program on capacity-building and development the competencies of national accreditation experts
   2.6 Training certified experts on accreditation, including training in country and outside in collaboration with partner accrediting agencies


3. Enhancing the capacity of the medical education organizations’s units for quality assurance and health organizations (implementing postgraduate training programmes), research organizations (PhD programmes).
   
4. Implementation of the international guidelines for good practice in quality assurance in higher education and establishment of effective cooperation with partners
   4.1 Institutional and specialized (subject-specific programme) accreditation of medical education organizations and their educational programs
   4.2 Ensuring cooperation with International and European Networks for Quality assurance in higher education and professional associations (INQAAHE, ENQA, APQN)
   4.3 Implementation the international cooperation and partnership program with foreign accreditation agencies
   4.4 INQAAHE GGP external evaluation


5. International recognition ECAQA as the accreditation center for health professions education by the WFME and the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA)(ENQA)