ECAQA's Certificate of Full Membership in ENQA was officially presented at the General Assembly of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education, October 26-28, 2022, Stockholm, Sweden.

The event was hosted by Karolinska Institutet. The ECAQA was represented by Advisor Farida Nurmanbetova.

The ceremony was solemn and the Certificate was presented by ENQA President Douglas Blackstock.

For ECAQA, this is a great victory, indicating that in all activities we follow the ESG Standards in conducting accreditation of educational organizations and educational programmes.

ECAQA conducts accreditation by applying Standards developed on the basis of the WFME Global Standards for Quality Improvement and harmonized with the Standards and guidelines for quality assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG).

The next step is the registration of ECAQA in the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR).

Full membership in ENQA and inclusion in EQAR allows the accreditation body to carry out accreditation of educational organizations and educational programmes in the specialties of all sectors of economy, industry, humanities and social areas.

The Eurasian Centre for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education and Health care (ECAQA) which operates in Kazakhstan has been awarded Recognition Status by the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME). WFME Recognition Status has been awarded for ten years until 31.10.2032 with immediate effect.

WFME is satisfied that the accreditation process, post-accreditation monitoring and decision making by ECAQA when it accredits these medical schools and faculties is to an appropriate and rigorous standard.

https://wfme.org/news/two-more-agencies-awarded-wfme-recognition-status-4/

WFME Recognition Certificate_ECAQA__10.10.22 until 31.10.2032

The Board of ENQA concluded that ECAQA is in compliance with the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG 2015) and thus fulfils the membership criteria according to article 6, paragraph 1 of ENQA‘s rules of procedure.

Board letter_membership approved_ECAQA https://www.enqa.eu/wp-content/uploads/Board-letter-membership-approved_ECAQA.pdf

The Eurasian Сentre for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education and Health Care (ECAQA) underwent an external review coordinated by ENQA. The review evaluated whether and how the agency meets the expectations of the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the EHEA. An external review conducted between October 2020 and March 2022. The main review took place in June 2021.

The 2021 external review of ECAQA was conducted in line with the process described in the Guidelines for ENQA Agency Reviews.

The panel for the external review of ECAQA was appointed by ENQA and composed of the following members:

• Patrick Van den Bosch (Chair), Policy Advisor for Quality Assurance, Flemish Higher Education Council, Belgium (ENQA nominee);
• Ewa Kolanowska (Secretary), independent higher education consultant, Poland (ENQA nominee);
• Danutė Rasimavičienė, Lecturer and Staff Development Coordinator, Vilnius University Business School, Lithuania, Academic (EURASHE nominee);
• Simona Zamfir, PhD medical student at the Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iasi, Romania (ESU nominee, member of the European Students’ Union Quality Assurance Student Experts Pool).

The review was coordinated by Anna Gover, a Senior Project Manager at ENQA, until the end of November 2021, and subsequently by Goran Dakovic, the Reviews Manager at ENQA.

https://www.enqa.eu/review-database/external-review-of-ecaqa/

On May 20-22, 2022, ECAQA Director General S.S. Sarsenbayeva, MD, DMedSc, Professor, and ECAQA Adviser F.N. Nurmanbetova, MD, DMedSc, Senior Adviser and Certified Assessor of the World Federation...