ENQA
The Eurasian Centre for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education and Healthcare (ECAQA) is undergoing an international external review as part of the process of renewing its membership in the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) and renewing its registration in the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR).
The ENQA ENQA Reviewers’ on site-visit is scheduled for December 2–4, 2026.
The review is scheduled to finish in April 2027.
https://www.enqa.eu/review-database/external-review-of-ecaqa-2026/
Composition of the ENQA Expert Panel
- Tatjana Volkova, Professor, BA School of Business and Finance of the University of Latvia, Latvia – Chair, academic (EUA nominee)
- Đurđica Dragojević, Expert Advisor, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Science and Youth, Croatia – Secretary, quality assurance professional (ENQA nominee)
- Henning Schäfer, Managing Director, Central Accreditation and Evaluation Agency Hanover (ZEvA), Germany – Quality assurance professional (ENQA nominee)
- Ömer Faruk Sönmez, PhD student in Public Health, Université Paris-Saclay, France – Student (ESU nominee, member of the European Students’ Union Quality Assurance Student Experts Pool)
Certificate of ECAQA membership in ENQA_2022-2027 [Download]
22 June 2022 the Board of ENQA took the decision to grant the ECAQA full membership of ENQA for five years.
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/
The Eurasian Сentre for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education and Health Care (ECAQA) is undergoing the ENQA external review to ensure that its internal quality assurance and external quality assurance activities are in compliance with the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in European Higher Education Area (ESG2015) and to be registered in the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR). This external review is coordinated by ENQA.
The ENQA Reviewers’ on site-visit is scheduled for June 7-11, 2021, and the external evaluation will be finished in December 2021.
ECAQA's Self-Assessment Report to the ENQA