"On January 29, 2024, the Eurasian Center for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education and Health Care participated in the Forum "Quality Assurance in Higher Education: Current State and Development Prospects," organized by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

The Forum program included 3 sections on the following topics: "Tuning of the internal quality assurance system of higher and postgraduate education institutions, Improvement of the training of scientific personnel, Improvement of the system of state regulation of higher and postgraduate education."

The agenda featured a working meeting "New Approaches to Control Measures."

The plenary session was opened by Minister Sayasat Nurbek. Over 20 reports were presented, addressing important issues such as the national ranking of universities, the internal quality assurance system of education in the context of artificial intelligence development, regulation of higher and postgraduate education, and others.

The event was attended by top executives, vice-rectors, university professors, and representatives of accreditation bodies. Stefan Levic, President of EQAR, delivered a presentation on "Ensuring the Quality of Higher Education - Common Problems and Approaches."

Eurasian Center for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Education and Health Care (ECAQA) participated with the presentation "Principles and Approaches to Quality Assurance of Medical Education" at the Central Asian Conference of Rectors of Higher Education Institutions "Development of Quality Assurance Systems of Higher Education in the context of CAHEA" on October 31, 2023

Sarsenbayeva S.S., Director General of ECAQA presented a report on "Principles and Approaches to Quality Assurance of Medical Education". The conference was attended by representatives of the academic community of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Republic of Uzbekistan, Republic of Tajikistan, Kyrgyz Republic, Ministries of Education of Central Asian countries, rectors, vice-rectors of universities, heads of accreditation agencies, Chairperson of the Alliance of Students of Kazakhstan.

The conference was held on the initiative of the National Center for Higher Education Development of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Sarsenbayeva S.S. marked the peculiarities of accreditation of medical education institutions and educational programmes: application of World Federation of Medical Education Global Standards for improving the quality of medical education at all levels and their harmonization with ESG standards; on certified experts; the need to establish a specialized Accreditation Council based on the WHO/WFME Guidelines for Accreditation of Medical Education; about the policy of recognition of accreditation agencies by the World Federation of Medical Education to meet the requirements of the Education Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) and other issues relevant to medical, pharmaceutical and nursing education in Central Asian countries.

Past-President and member of the Executive Board of the World Federation of Medical Education (WFME), Professor David Gordon held the workshop «New WFME Global Standards for Quality Improvement: National Specifications in Basic and Postgraduate Medical Education» for ECAQA accreditation experts on 20 June 2023 in Almaty.

The workshop objective: to develop the capacity of ECAQA accreditation experts to ensure the quality of medical education, based on international principles and WFME Global Standards for Quality Improvement: Basic Medical Education and Postgraduate Medical Education.

Seminar results: 38 representatives of medical universities and research centers of the Republic of Kazakhstan, members of the KazMSA, Accreditation and Expert Council of ECAQA took part in the workshop.