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AAC - Austrian Accreditation Council (Austria)
 Contact person
Elisabeth Fiorioli
elisabeth.fiorioli@bmwf.gv.at, elvira.mutschmann-sanchez@bmwf.gv.at, stephanie.zwiessler@bmwf.gv.at Contact detailsPalais Harrach, Freyung 3
1010 Vienna
Austria
Phone: +43 1 53120 5673
Fax: +43 1 53120 815673
http://www.akkreditierungsrat.at/
Founding Date: 2000
ENQA Full Membership: 2001
Ownership: Independent public authority, duties regulated by University Accreditation Act.
Scope of Authority: Accreditation of private universities in Austria, supervision of accredited private universities.
Methods Used: Peer review, on-site visits, written reports and final hearings.
Review Date: 2007
External Review Type: Nationally coordinated
External Review Panel: • Dr. K.L.L.M. (Karl) Dittrich (Chair), Chairman of NVAO, the Accreditation Organisation for The Netherlands and Flanders;
• Drs. A.J. (Fred) Mulder (Secretary), Policy Advisor with NVAO, the Accreditation Organisation for The Netherlands and Flanders;
• Dr. Achim Hopbach, Managing Director of the German Accreditation Council;
• Prof. dr. Lothar Zechlin, Founding Rector of the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany), former Rector of Karl-Franzens University of Graz (Austria);
• Prof. Bente Kristensen, formerly Vice-Rector of the Copenhagen Business School;
• Bastian Baumann, Student of Law at Freie Universität Berlin, representative of students in Bologna-related gremia, member of EUA expert panels.
Review Outcome: Full membership reconfirmed 11 June 2008.
External Review Link: http://www.akkreditierungsrat.at/files/downloads_2007/OeAR_Review_Report_fi...
AQA - Austrian Agency for Quality Assurance (Austria)
 Contact person
Alexander Kohler
Managing Director
office@aqa.ac.at, alexander.kohler@aqa.ac.at Contact detailsWickenburggasse 26
1080 Vienna
Austria
Phone: +43 1 319 44 50 11
Fax: +43 1 319 44 50 20
http://www.aqa.ac.at
Founding Date: 2003
ENQA Full Membership: 2008
Ownership: Independent non-governmental organisation (on initiative of universities, union of students, Ministry for education and science).
Scope of Authority: Institutional, programme and thematic evaluation and monitoring for all kinds of higher education (Austria and abroad).
Agency's Role: Evaluation, monitoring, support in follow-up, development of methods and procedures.
Keywords: Evaluation, stocktaking, support.
Methods Used: Peer review, monitoring, stocktaking, audits.
Review Date: 2007
External Review Type: ENQA-coordinated
External Review Panel: • Professor Jürgen Kohler, (Chair), Former Rektor, Greifswald University and former Chair, German Accreditation Council;
• Dr Peter Findlay, (Secretary), Assistant Director, Reviews Group, Quality Assurance Agency, United Kingdom;
• Ms Vanja Ivosevic, Former President, European Students' Union, Croatia;
• Professor Henrik Toft Jensen, Former Rektor, University of Roskilde, Denmark;
• Professor Dezsö Sima, Former Vice-President, Hungarian Accreditation Committee Hungary.
Review Outcome: Full membership granted 11 June 2008.
External Review Link: http://www.enqa.eu/files/AQA review report.pdf
FHR - Fachhochschulrat (Austria)
 Contact person
Dr. Kurt Sohm
Managing Director
kurt.sohm@fhr.ac.at Contact detailsLiechtensteinstrasse 22 A
A-1090 Vienna
Austria
Phone: +43 1 319 50 34 16
Fax: + 43 1 319 50 34 30
http://www.fhr.ac.at
Founding Date: 1993
ENQA Full Membership: 2000
Ownership: Independent public authority, duties regulated by Fachhochschul Studies Act (1993).
Scope of Authority: Initial and re-accreditation of FH programmes; institutional and programme-related evaluation.
Agency's Role: Public authority responsible for external quality assurance.
Keywords: Accreditation and evaluation.
Methods Used: Accreditation and evaluation (self-documentation, site visits, follow-up-procedures, publication of evaluation results).
Review Date: 2007
External Review Type: Nationally coordinated
External Review Panel: • Jon Haakstad (chair), Norwegian National Quality Assurance Agency;
• Bert Hoogewijs, Hogeschool Gent;
• Vanja Ivošević, European Student's Union;
• Mark Frederiks, Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders;
• Manfred Prisching, University of Graz.
Review Outcome: Full membership reconfirmed 11 June 2008.
External Review Link: http://www.fhr.ac.at/fhr_inhalt_en/00_documents/Final_review_report_FHR.pdf
EUA - Institutional Evaluation Programme of the European University Association (Belgium)
 Contact person
Tia Loukkola
Senior Programme Manager
tia.loukkola@eua.be Contact detailsRue d'Egmont 13
B-1000 Brussels
Belgium
Phone: +32 2 230 55 44
Fax: +32 2 230 57 51
http://www.eua.be/
Founding Date: 1994
ENQA Full Membership: 2000
Ownership: Independent, non-governmental organisation, self-funded activity.
Scope of Authority: Higher education.
Agency's Role: Institutional evaluation.
Keywords: Evaluation is focused on enhancing the strategic capacity of universities (research, teaching and service to society) and their internal quality processes. Expert teams are European.
Methods Used: Appointment and training of European external panels. Self-evaluation. Two site visits. Oral report. Final report.
Review Date: 2009
External Review Type: ENQA-coordinated
External Review Panel: • Jon Haakstad (Chair), Assistant Director of the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (NOKUT);
• Dr. Patricia Georgieva, Senior Expert in QA in HE, WYG International;
• Predrag Lazetic, ESU nomination;
• Dr. Steven Crow, the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central
Association of Colleges and Schools, United States;
• Dr. Peter Findlay (Secretary), Assistant Director, QAA, UK.
Review Outcome: Re-confirmation of Full Membership on 7 September 2009
External Review Link: /files/EUA-IEP review report.doc
VLHORA - Council of Flemish Institutions of Higher Education (Belgium)
 Contact person
Marc Vandewalle
Secretary General
marc.vandewalle@vlhora.be Contact detailsRavensteingalerij 27 B3
1000 Brussels
Belgium
Phone: +32 02 211 41 90
Fax: +32 02 211 41 99
http://www.vlhora.be
ENQA Full Membership: 2000
Review Date: 2008
External Review Type: Nationally coordinated
External Review Panel: -Nick Harris, Director of Development and Enhancement at QAA, United Kingdom – peer-leader, QA expert;
-Irene Müller, Delegate for International Affairs at the FH Council (Fachhochschulrat), Austria, QA expert (previously representative of a HEI);
-Lars Lynge Nielsen, Rector University College Lillebælt – School of Social Education,
Denmark / President of EURASHE, Representative of a HEI;
-Gertie De Fraeye, vice-chair of VVS (Flanders) responsible for educational affairs and QA student member;
-Ann Demeulemeester, Secretary general of ACW (Umbrella of workers organisations), President of the Flemish advisory board for education (VLOR) and President of the united corporate life organisations in Flanders, Stakeholder member;
-Stephanie Maurer, Legal Officer at OAQ, Switzerland, Secretary.
Review Outcome: Full Membership reconfirmed on 23 January 2009
External Review Link: http://www.enqa.eu/files/Report_Vlhora_def_final_2.pdf
VLIR - QAU - Flemish Interuniversity Council Quality Assurance Unit (Belgium)
 Contact person
Mieke Vanderstappen
Executive Assistant
mieke.vanderstappen@vlir.be, marleen.bronders@vlir.be, administratie@vlir.be Contact detailsRavensteingalerij 27 B3
1000 Brussels
Belgium
Phone: +32 2 792 55 00
Fax: +32 2 211 41 99
http://www.vlir.be
Founding Date: 1976
ENQA Full Membership: 2000
Ownership: Independent organisation financed by the Flemish universities
Scope of Authority: VLIR is a consultative body representing the 6 Flemish universities.
Agency's Role: Stimulate co-operation among the universities and between the universities and the public authorities. Act as a common voice on university management, development, legislation, research, quality assessment and evaluation etc.
Keywords: External quality assessment aiming at quality improvement and accountability. Educational programme assessment.
Methods Used: Discipline orientated quality assessment based on self-assessment and peer review. Evaluation of programmes in development co-operation. Joint reviews with VSNU of various educational programmes.
Review Date: 2009
External Review Type: Nationally coordinated
External Review Panel: • Marcel Crochet (Chair), Expert in the field of the Belgian universities, former rector of the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, advisor of the Minister of Higher Education of the French Community of Belgium, member of NVAO evaluation committee;
• Lee Harvey, Expert in quality assurance and higher education policy, Independent consultant on higher education, visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School, Former director of Centre for Research and Evaluation, Sheffield Hallam University;
• Herman Du Toit, International expert in quality assurance and higher edu-cation policy, Project Manager Quality Promotion and Capacity Development: HEQC;
• Andree Sursock, International expert in quality Assurance in universities,
Deputy Secretary General of EUA, member of NVAO evaluation committee;
• Mia Douterlungne, Stakeholder member, Secretary General (Administrateur-Generaal) of the Flemish advisory board for education (VLOR);
• Gertie De Fraeye, Student member, Chair of VVS (National Union of Students in Flanders) responsible for the coordination, educational affairs and QA;
• Carlo Hover (Secretary), Independent consultant on quality assurance in higher education.
Review Outcome: Full membership reconfirmed 7 September, 2009
External Review Link: /files/VLIR QUA final report.pdf
NEAA - National Evaluation and Accreditation Agency (Bulgaria)
 Contact person
Kaloyan Pargov
Program and International Relations Coordinator
kpargov@neaa.government.bg Contact detailsTzarigradsko Chaussee Blvd. 125, bl V
1113 Sofia
Bulgaria
Phone: +359 2 807 78 30
Fax: +359 2 971 2068
http://www.neaa.government.bg/
Founding Date: 1996
ENQA Full Membership: 2008
Ownership: NEAA was established in 1996 by ordinance of the Council of Ministers as a specialised state body of the Council of Ministers for quality assurance in higher education.
Scope of Authority: NEAA itself establishes and approves criteria and procedures for evaluation, accreditation and post-accreditation monitoring in compliance with the HEA and the state standards.
Agency's Role: NEAA’s mission is to assist the HEIs to maintain and improve the quality of education in the Republic of Bulgaria. The agency aims at stimulating and improving the quality of the educational and research services as well as at raising their competitiveness.
Methods Used: The core activity of NEAA is the evaluation, accreditation and control of the quality of education and research activities.
Review Date: 2008
External Review Type: Nationally coordinated
External Review Panel: •Prof. Francisco Marcellán, (Chair), Full Professor, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Former director of ANECA;
•Mrs María Becerro (Secretary), International and Institutional Relation unit officer, ANECA. Replaced Cecilia de la Rosa, who was responsible for the secretariat function until the site visit;
•Prof. Guy Haug, International expert;
•Prof. Iordanka Naydenova Kouzmanova, Former Rector of the Agricultural University – Plovdiv;
•Mr Viorel Proteasa, Member of the Executive Committee 2007 - 2008 of the European Students´Union (ESU);
•Prof. Christian Thune, Vice-Chair of the Danish accreditation Council and former ENQA President.
Review Outcome: Full membership granted 25 September 2008.
External Review Link: http://www.enqa.eu/files/NEAA review report.pdf
EVA - Danish Evaluation Institute (Denmark)
 Contact person
Ms. Agi Csonka, Ms. Tine Holm
Executive Director, Director of Projects
eva@eva.dk Contact detailsOstbanegade 55, 3rd Floor
DK-2100 Copenhagen
Denmark
Phone: + 45 35 55 01 01
Fax: + 45 35 55 10 11
http://www.eva.dk
Founding Date: 1992
ENQA Full Membership: 2000
Ownership: Independent, but funded by the Ministry of Education.
Scope of Authority: All levels of education.
Agency's Role: Quality assessment of education. Systematic evaluation of education. Accreditation. Development of relevant methods and techniques for evaluation and quality assurance.
Keywords: Evaluation: examining quality of process and result of education. Quality assurance: establishing procedures for stimulating and furthering quality.
Methods Used: Appointment of expert panels. Self-evaluation. Site visit. Surveys of users. Reporting by external examiners. Conference. Final public report.
Review Date: 2005
External Review Type: Nationally coordinated
External Review Panel: • Henrik Tvarnö (Chair), Secretary General of the Danish Folketing;
• Eva Åström (Secretary), Project Manager at Högskoleverket
• Sigbrit Franke, University Chancellor and Director General of the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education;
• Kirsi Lindroos, Director General of the National Finnish Board of Education;
• Rolf Sandahl, Head of Department, The Swedish National Financial Management Authority.
Review Outcome: The ENQA Board re-confirmed the Full membership of EVA in ENQA in September 2006 on the basis of the external review of the Agency conducted in 2005 and of the supplementary review that looked at EVA’s compliance with the ESG which was completed in 2006.
External Review Link: http://www.enqa.eu/files/External%20review%20of%20EVA%20-%20final%20version.doc
CTI - Commission des Titres d'Ingénieur (France)
Contact person
Teresa Sànchez
Programme Manager
direction-programmes@cti-commission.fr Contact details34 avenue Charles de Gaulle
F-92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine
France
Phone: 33 6 61 32 99 70
http://www.cti-commission.fr
Founding Date: 1934
ENQA Full Membership: 2005
Review Date: 2009
External Review Type: Nationally coordinated
External Review Panel: • Ludo Gelders, Professor at University Leuven, Belgium, (chairman)
• Marie-Odile Ottenwaelter, Associate Expert at CIEP, France, Board member of INQAAHE (Secretary)
• Rolph Heusser, Director of OAQ, Switzerland, Board member of INQAAHE
• Jean-Paul Vautrey, Telecommunications Engineer in Chief, Joint Manager, Hauterive Associés, France
• François Laurin, Student at IEP Paris, former President of the National Conference of Vice-president Students, France
Review Outcome: Full membership reconfirmed 2 June 2009.
External Review Link: /files/CTI review report.doc
ACQUIN - Accreditation, Certification and Quality Assurance Institute (Germany)
 Contact person
Thomas Reil
Managing Director
sekr@acquin.org Contact detailsBrandenburger Straße 2
95448 Bayreuth
Germany
Phone: +49 921 530390-50
Fax: +49 921 530390-51
http://www.acquin.org
Founding Date: 2001
ENQA Full Membership: 2003
Ownership: Registered organisation governed by HEIs.
Scope of Authority: Quality assurance accreditation in higher education teaching and studying.
Agency's Role: Evaluation of the reasons for the introduction of the new programme, its objective and relevance, contents and curricular design, examination procedures and standards, quality assurance measures, teaching and learning methods, successfulness and institutional support, infrastructure and resources.
Keywords: Fitness for purpose.
Methods Used: Accreditation.
Review Date: 2006
External Review Type: Nationally coordinated
External Review Panel: • Prof. Dr. Johann Schneider (Chair), member of the Accreditation Council;
• Prof. Dr. Konstantin Meskouris, National expert, RWTH Aachen ;
• Dr. Stephan Bieri, International expert, president of the “Eidgenössische Fachhochschulkommission” (Swiss higher education commission);
• Stefanie Geyer, Student member, University of Marburg.
Review Outcome: Full membership reconfirmed 20 September 2007.
External Review Link: http://www.enqa.eu/files/ACQUIN review report.doc
AHPGS - Accreditation Agency for Study Programmes in Health and Social Sciences (Germany)
 Contact person
Georg Reschauer
Head of Office
sekretariat@ahpgs.de Contact detailsSedanstrasse 22
79098 Freiburg
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)761/203-5529
Fax: +49 (0)761/203-5516
http://www.ahpgs.de
Founding Date: 2001
ENQA Full Membership: 2009
Ownership: AHPGS is a legally recognised, independent and non-profit accreditation agency.
Scope of Authority: Accreditation of study programmes in health and social sciences.
Agency's Role: The aim of the accreditation is to evaluate subject-specific concepts on which the programmes are based and to judge the quality of the programmes and of teaching. Additional goals are to ensure the quality of the study programmes, to promote flexibility and coherence within them, and to improve the transparency of the German HE system.
Keywords: Accreditation of study programmes, quality assurance.
Methods Used: The accreditation procedures of AHPGS include a self-assessment report by the programme under evaluation; systematic analysis of the report by the review committee; a site-visit by the committee; the production of the final report by the committee; and a final accreditation decision by the AHPGS Commission based on the aforementioned reports.
Review Date: 2009
External Review Type: Nationally coordinated
External Review Panel: • Professor Dr. Reinhard Zintl, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Member of the
Accreditation Council (President of the Expert group);
• Mag. Elisabeth Fiorioli Managing Director of the Austrian Accreditation Council;
• Anja Gadow, TFH Berlin, Member of the Accreditation Council;
• Professor Dr. Ada Pellert, Donau-Universität Krems, President of the Deutschen
Universität für Weiterbildung, Berlin since 01.01.2009;
• Niko Stumpfögger, Uniter Services Union Federal Administration, Department 3
Health, Social Services, Welfare, and Church, Berlin.>br>
Review Outcome: Full membership granted 12 June 2009.
External Review Link: /files/AHPGS review report_Gutachten_eng.pdf
AQAS - Agentur für Qualitätssicherung durch Akkreditierung von Studiengängen (Germany)
 Contact person
Doris Herrmann, Volker Husberg
General Manager, Senior Consultant
herrmann@aqas.de, husberg@aqas.de Contact detailsIn der Sürst 1
D-53111 Bonn
Germany
Phone: +49 228 / 90 96 010
Fax: +49 228 / 90 96 019
http://www.aqas.de
Founding Date: 2002
ENQA Full Membership: 2008
Ownership: AQAS is a non-profit organisation that is independent of HEIs and functions outside of HEIs.
Scope of Authority: AQAS provides accreditation for study programmes from all academic disciplines and throughout Germany. Programmes are accredited for a limited period of time and then need to be re-accredited.
Agency's Role: AQAS is one of currently six accreditation agencies in Germany. It received its accreditation from the German Accreditation Council (Akkreditierungsrat) on February 14th, 2002 for the duration of five years.
Keywords: Accreditation.
Review Date: 2007
External Review Type: Nationally coordinated
External Review Panel: • Professor Dr. Ing. Peter Pirsch, University of Hannover, member of the
Accreditation Council (Chair)
• Dr. Peter Findlay, Assistant Director, Quality Assurance Agency for Higher
Education (QAA), Great Britain
• Mrs. Janine Hofmann, Student at the University of Jena, Germany
• Gerd Köhler, formerly Board of Directors of the GEW, member of the Accreditation Council
• Professor Dr. Jürgen Kohler, University of Greifswald, Chairman of the
Accreditation Council
• Dr Kurt Sohm, Managing director, Fachhochschulrat, Austria
Review Outcome: Full membership granted 19 November 2008
External Review Link: http://www.enqa.eu/files/AQAS review report.pdf
ASIIN - Accreditation Agency Specialised in Accrediting Degree Programmes in Engineering, Informatics, the Natural Sciences and Mathematics (Germany)
Contact person
Dr. Iring Wasser
Chief Executive Officer
gf@asiin.de Contact detailsPO Box 10 11 39
D-40002 Duesseldorf
Germany
Phone: +49(0)211/6214-370
Fax: +49(0)69/13306978057
http://www.asiin.de
Founding Date: 1999
ENQA Full Membership: 2007
Ownership: Non-profit, registered association.
Scope of Authority: ASIIN accredits degree programmes in the fields of engineering, computer science/informatics, the natural sciences, mathematics and architecture at HEIs in- and outside of Germany - within Germany with the Seal of the German Accreditation Council. The accreditation is awarded for a limited period of time. Re-accreditation is required after 5-7 years.
Agency's Role: ASIIN is one of six accreditation agencies in Germany and the only one specialised in the accreditation of degree programmes in the fields of engineering, computer science/informatics, the natural sciences, mathematics and architecture. For the accreditation of degree programmes in its fields of specialisation, ASIIN has developed subject-specific requirements supplementing the general standards and legal requirements.
Keywords: Accreditation of degree programmes, engineering, computer science/informatics, natural sciences, mathematics, architecture.
Methods Used: Assessment of degree programmes, peer review, analysis of data, on-site visit.
Review Date: 2006
External Review Type: Nationally coordinated
External Review Panel: • Gerd Köhler (Chair), Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft (education and science trade union), member of the accreditation council;
• Dr. Günther Heitmann, National expert, Technical University of Berlin;
• Professor Dr. Helmut Konrad, International expert, Graz University;
• Lars Schewe, Student member, Technical University of Darmstadt.
Review Outcome: Full membership granted 27 February 2007.
External Review Link: http://www.enqa.eu/files/AR%20-%20Survey%20report_2006-07-12.pdf
EVALAG - Stiftung Evaluationsagentur Baden-Wuerttemberg (Germany)
 Contact person
Dr. Anke Rigbers
Chief Executive
evalag@evalag.de Contact detailsM7 9a-10
D-68161 Mannheim
Germany
Phone: + 49 621 12 85 45 0
Fax: + 49 621 12 85 45 99
http://www.evalag.de
Founding Date: 2000
ENQA Full Membership: 2001
Ownership: Foundation under the terms of Public Law, non-governmental body, partly endowed by the Government.
Scope of Authority: Quality assurance agency for higher education in Germany and outside Germany.
Agency's Role: EVALAG is a centre of excellence for quality assurance and enhancement. It has supported higher education institutions and other scientific institutions with their commitment for good quality in teaching and learning, research and services since October 2009. EVALAG is accreditated as an accreditation agency.
Keywords: quality assurance, quality improvement, quality management.
Methods Used: Evaluation (based on peer review and empirical data), audit procedures (based on peer review), accreditation (based on peer review), peer review procedures for research proposals, consultancy.
Review Date: 2009
External Review Type: Nationally coordinated
External Review Panel: • Prof. Dr. Johann Schneider (chair), FH Frankfurt am Main and a member of the Accreditation Council (higher education institution representative) up to February 2009;
• Anja Gadow (representative of the students);
• Dr. Bernd Kaßebaum, IG Metall, department of education and training policies and general education policy (representative of professional practice);
• Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Ute von Lojewski, president of FH Münster (representative of the Accreditation Council);
• Thierry Malan, former Inspecteur général de l'administration de l'éducation nationale et de la recherche (international representative);
• Dr. Irene Müller, director of the area "international coordination" of the Austrian Exchange Service GmbH (OeAD-GmbH) and a member of the council of the university of applied sciences (international representative).
Review Outcome: Full membership reconfirmed 5 February, 2010
External Review Link: /files/evalag_review report locked.pdf
FIBAA - Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation (Germany)
 Contact person
Mr. Daisuke Motoki
Managing Director
motoki@fibaa.org Contact detailsBerliner Freiheit 20-24
D-53111 Bonn
Germany
Phone: + 49 228-280356-0
Fax: + 49 228-280356-9
http://www.fibaa.org
Founding Date: 1994
ENQA Full Membership: 2001
Ownership: Swiss-German non-profit foundation for quality assurance with managing office in Bonn, Germany. Board and commission representatives from universities and HEIs, business and student associations and industry.
Scope of Authority: Accreditation and quality assurance agency for universities and HEIs. Certified by the German accreditation council since 2000 (re-accreditation in 2007), Nederlands-Vlaamse Accredita-tieorganisatie (NVAO) in the Netherlands (2006 re-accreditation in 2008) and the Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology (BBT) in Switzerland (2008).
FIBAA mainly operates in Germany, Austria and Switzerland but also in other European Countries as well as in Africa, Asia and the USA.
Agency's Role: FIBAA accreditation processes are aiming to assure required quality of study programmes in line with national and international standards and guidelines. It supports the validity of the final qualification with employability requirements, ensures the diversity and transparency of study programmes for students, and promotes international mobility. Furthermore FIBAA consults and supports universities and HEIs in their efforts to develop and improve in their quality security management.
Keywords: Accreditation, MBA & BBA programmes, Bachelor & Master programmes, PhD programmes, Fitness for purpose.
Methods Used: Programme Accredititation, Audit, Evaluation, Process Accreditation, Institutional Audit, PhD programmes, Support and consulting services.
Review Date: 2006
External Review Type: Nationally coordinated
External Review Panel: • Professor Dr Reinhold R. Grimm (Chair), University of Jena, member of the Accreditation Council;
• Ulf Banscherus, Freie Universität Berlin, member of the Accreditation Council, student member;
• Professor Dr Dr h. c. Helmut Konrad, University of Graz, international expert;
• Dr Caspar van Rijn, NVAO, international expert;
• Dr Monika Donner, Deutsche Bahn AG (stepped down before the beginning of the onsite visit).
Review Outcome: Full membership reconfirmed on 20 December 2007
External Review Link: http://www.enqa.eu/files/FIBAA review report.pdf
GAC - German Accreditation Council (Germany)
 Contact person
Mr. Achim Hopbach
Managing Director
akr@akkreditierungsrat.de Contact detailsAdenauerallee 73
D-53113 Bonn
Germany
Phone: +49 228 338 306 0
Fax: +49 228 338 306 79
http://www.akkreditierungsrat.de
Founding Date: 1999
ENQA Full Membership: 2000
Ownership: Established by Kultusministerkonferenz (Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany) and Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (Association of Universities and Other Higher Education Institutions in Germany). Financed by the Länder of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Scope of Authority: Accrediting Accreditation Agencies.
Agency's Role: The GAC has been set up in accordance with the resolution of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany (Kultusministerkonferenz - KMK) adopted on 3 December 1998.
The main purpose of the GAC is to contribute to the development in the quality of teaching and learning in Germany and, with this in mind, to cooperate in the realisation of the European Higher Education Area.
To this end, on behalf of the German Federal States, the Foundation takes care that the agencies certified to carry out processes of accreditation of study programmes demonstrate that they do this to the highest degree of quality, comparability and transparency. Before any agency is given the authority to award the quality seal of the Foundation for study programmes that have successfully accomplished an accreditation process, it must itself be subject to an accreditation process. On application from the agency, the accreditation process is carried out by the Accreditation Council which, as the central decision-making body of the Foundation, decides on the accreditation or reaccreditation of agencies.
The accreditation of agencies is carried out on the basis of the Criteria for the Accreditation of Accreditation Agencies that have been developed by the Accreditation Council. In accordance with a total of twenty individual test areas for such criteria, the agencies are required, for example, to furnish proof of the legitimacy and function of its institutions, to formulate their understanding of quality based on an evaluation of Learning Outcomes, to explain their personnel structure and other resources or to prove the managerial independence of the agency or its accreditative Institutions. Furthermore, the agencies commit themselves to the deployment of the Criteria for the Accreditation of Study Programmes not just during the accreditation process but also on a contractual basis. This part of the criteria applies equally to agencies and Higher Education Institutions, in that it names the quality elements of the accreditation programme to be checked by the agency where documents have to be presented by the Higher Education establishments as part of the accreditation process.
With a view to the realisation of the European Higher Education Area, the recognition of the German Quality Seal, and thus also guaranteeing the recognition and study achievements and degrees awarded from German Higher Education Institutions and promoting their reputation outside Germany, also falls within the remit of the Foundation. By taking the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (the ENQA) wholly into account in their own relevant regulations, the Accreditation Council has made an important contribution to the development of the European Higher Education Area.
Keywords: Accreditation, accreditation agency, basic standards and criteria, quality assurance, Bachelor's/Master's degrees.
Methods Used: External quality assessment, peer review.
Review Date: 2008
External Review Type: Nationally coordinated
External Review Panel: • Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Alfred Kieser (Chair), Chair for General Business Administration and Organisation, Mannheim University;
• Dr. Uwe Schmidt (Secretary), Head of the Centre for Quality Assurance and
Development (ZQ), Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz; Daniela Heinze, academic employee at the ZQ;
• Prof. Dr. Ilse Helbrecht, Deputy Headmistress for Instruction, Studies
and International Relations, Bremen University;
• Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Reinhard F. Hüttl, Academic Executive Board and Chairman of the Board of the GeoForschungsZentrums [Geo Research Centre] Potsdam;
• Christina Rozsnyai, M.A., M.L.S., Programme Officer for Foreign Affairs,
Hungarian Accreditation Committee, Member of the EUA Institutional Evaluation
Programme Steering Committee, Secretary General of the CEE Network, Budapest;
• Dr. Ton Vroeijenstijn, Senior Expert, Former Head Quality Assurance Department of the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU), Former Member Steering Group ENQA, Former Coordinator ECA, Rijswijk;
• Nina Gustafsson Åberg, student in the Master’s Programme “International Politics”, Uppsala University.
Review Outcome: Full membership reconfirmed 04 September 2008.
External Review Link: http://www.enqa.eu/files/GAC%20review%20report.pdf
ZEvA - Central Evaluation and Accreditation Agency Hannover (Germany)
 Contact person
Hermann Reuke (Managing Director), Torsten Futterer (Head of Evaluation Department), Florian Fischer (Head of Accreditation Department)
reuke@zeva.org Contact detailsWilhelm-Busch-Str. 22
D-30167 Hannover
Germany
Phone: + 49 511 762 8284
Fax: + 49 511 762 8289
http://www.zeva.org
Founding Date: 1995
ENQA Full Membership: 2000
Ownership: Common foundation of all Lower Saxon HEIs. Boards comprise members of HEIs in Germany and abroad as well as members of professional practice.
Scope of Authority: All universities and HEIs in the Federal Republic of Germany. All subjects and scientific fields. The first German agency accredited by the Accreditation Council in Bonn.
Agency's Role: To assure and improve quality in higher education, to advice HEIs and governments on evaluation and accreditation procedures. Evaluation: Recommendations to HEIs concerning the improvement of teaching and learning as well as performance, publication of evaluation reports. Accreditation: Recommendations to ministries of science and education regarding the approval of Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes, awarding accreditation certificates, discussion and definition of minimum standards.
Keywords: Evaluation: quality assurance, quality improvement, educational programme assessment. Accreditation: minimum standards, modularisation, credit and grading systems, curriculum transparency, internationalisation, distance learning, further education, entry.
Methods Used: Evaluation: self-assessment, external evaluation, audit teams. Accreditation: Peer review, quantitative and qualitative data analysis, site visits, assessment at the institutional and programme level, re-accreditation.
Review Date: 2005
External Review Type: Nationally coordinated
External Review Panel: • Professor Dr. Reinhold R. Grimm (Chair), University of Jena, member of the Accreditation Council;
• Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Alfred Kieser, University of Mannheim;
• Dr. Harry Brinkmann, University of Amsterdam;
• Martin Peters, University of Bremen.
Review Outcome: Full membership reconfirmed 04 September 2008.
External Review Link: http://www.enqa.eu/files/ZEvA%20review%20report.pdf
HAC - Hungarian Accreditation Committee (Hungary)
 Contact person
Christina Rozsnyai
Programme Officer for foreign affairs
rozsnyai@mab.hu, titkarsag@mab.hu Contact detailsKirály u. 16
H-1061 Budapest
Hungary
Phone: +36 1 344 0314 / +36 1 344 0315
Fax: +36 1 344 0313
http://www.mab.hu
Founding Date: 1993
ENQA Full Membership: 2002
Ownership: Independent professional body, financed through Parliament.
Scope of Authority: Evaluation of universities and colleges, new degree programmes, national qualification requirements, doctoral schools, specialised postgraduate programmes, accredited two-year postsecondary vocational programmes, new universities and colleges applying for operating licences, new faculties applied for by colleges and universities, licence applications of foreign HEIs, credit system regulations. Also, drafting of international agreements on diploma recognition and equivalence and stating opinions regarding the appointment of university and college professors.
Agency's Role: Responsibility for the supervision of the quality of Hungarian higher education.
Keywords: Evaluation of HEIs, programmes and operating licences.
Methods Used: Self-evaluation, peer review visits, published reports.
Review Date: 2008
External Review Type: Nationally coordinated
External Review Panel: • Ferdinand Devínsky (chair), former rector of Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, member and chair of EUA Institutional Evaluation Programme pool of evaluators, member of IEP steering committee;
• Lewis Purser (secretary), director for academic affairs at the Irish Universities Association, member of EUA Institutional Evaluation Programme pool of evaluators;
• Árpád Balogh, former rector of Nyíregyháza College, member of the Hungarian Higher Education and Research Council, former member of HAC expert committee for biology;
• Tove Bull, former rector of University of Tromsø, Norway, member of EUA Institutional Evaluation Programme pool of evaluators, member of IEP steering committee, and a regular participant in quality assessments nationally and internationally;
• Lajos Nyiri, business consultant, former president of the National Committee of Technology Development in Hungary, member of the Strategy Committee of the Higher Education and Research Council;
• András Bohák, president of the student organisation at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
Review Outcome: Full membership reconfirmed 04 September 2008.
External Review Link: http://www.enqa.eu/files/HAC%20review%20report.pdf
HETAC - Higher Education and Training Awards Council (Ireland)
 Contact person
Mr. Gearoid O'Conluain
Chief Executive
GOConluain@hetac.ie Contact details26-27 Denzille Lane
Dublin 2
Ireland
Phone: 353 1 631 4567
Fax: 353 1 631 4577
http://www.hetac.ie
Founding Date: 2001
ENQA Full Membership: 2000
Ownership: Statutory body, the Qualifications (Education and Training) Act of 1999.
Scope of Authority: Tertiary Institutions, legal successor to the National Council for Educational Awards, est. in 1972.
Agency's Role: Encourage, facilitate, co-ordinate and develop education outside the universities. Encourage and promote liberal education. Approve courses and confer awards.
Methods Used: Institutional review. Programmatic review. New course evaluation. National Quality review. Appointment of expert panels. Self-evaluation. Site visit. Surveys of users. Reporting by external examiners. Conference. Final public report.
Review Date: 2006
External Review Type: Nationally coordinated
External Review Panel: • Dr. Seamus Smyth (Chair), President Emeritus, National University of Ireland Maynooth;
• David Parry,Former Assistant Principal & Dean of the Academic Quality and Standards Service, Southampton Solent University, England;
• Marion Coy, Director, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology;
• Dr Steven D. Crow, Executive Director, The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America;
• Revd Darren McCallig, Former Education Officer,Union of Students in Ireland;
• Dr Angelika Schade, Chancellor, Fachhochschule im Deutschen Roten Kreuz;
Göttingen, and Former Managing Director, German Accreditation Council;
• Norman Sharp, Director, Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education,
Scotland.
Review Outcome: Full membership of HETAC was re-confirmed in Aug' 2006. Thus HETAC became the first Agency in the history of the European Quality Assurance whose Full Membership in ENQA was re-confirmed on the basis of the results from the external review of the Agency.
External Review Link: http://www.enqa.eu/files/HETAC%20review%20report.doc
IUQB - Irish Universities Quality Board (Ireland)
 Contact person
Dr. Padraig Walsh
Chief Executive Officer
pwalsh@iuqb.ie Contact details10 Lower Mount Street
Dublin 2
Ireland
Phone: 353 1 644 9774
Fax: 353 1 661 2449
http://www.iuqb.ie/en/homepage.aspx
Founding Date: 2002
ENQA Full Membership: 2009
Ownership: Independent public authority.
Scope of Authority: To support and promote a culture of quality in Irish higher education and
independently evaluate the effectiveness of quality processes in Irish universities.
Agency's Role: Regular external reviews of how effective quality procedures are in Irish universities, providing information on QA to stakeholders (via our website, publications and organised events), promote QA in Irish universities and partner with the universities on QA/QI initiatives, publish and promote national guidelines of good practice on various Higher Education themes, operate in line with national legislation and agreed European Standards and Guidelines.
Keywords: Internal and external reviews of Irish Universities.
Methods Used: Internal and External reviews of academic and administrative departments, written reports, reviews, and follow-up measures.
Review Date: 2008
External Review Type: Nationally coordinated
External Review Panel: • Don Thornhill, Chair, National Competitiveness Council
• John Dunne, Chief Executive, Chambers Ireland
• Fiona Crozier, Assistant Director, Development & Enhancement, QAA, UK
• Jean Morse, President, Middle States Commission on Higher Education, US
• Gerry Wrixon, President Emeritus, University College Cork
• Marion Coy, President, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology
• Daithí MacSíthigh, Student Representative, (Former Education Officer, USI)
• Des Geraghty, Chair, Affordable Homes Partnership and Former SIPTU President
Review Outcome: Full membership granted 02 June 2009.
External Review Link: http://www.enqa.eu/files/IUQB Appendices XI Review report on IUQB.pdf
NQAI - National Qualifications Authority of Ireland (Ireland)
 Contact person
Mr. Sean Ó Foghlú
Chief Executive
jmurray@nqai.ie Contact details5th Floor Jervis House, Jervis Street
Dublin 1
Ireland
Phone: +353 1 8871500
Fax: +353 1 8871595
http://www.nqai.ie
Founding Date: 2001
ENQA Full Membership: 2008
Ownership: Statutory body, the Qualifications (Education and Training) Act of 1999.
Scope of Authority: Tertiary Institutions.
Agency's Role: Establishment and maintenance of a framework of qualifications for the development, recognition and award of qualifications based on standards of knowledge.
Review Date: 2007
External Review Type: Nationally coordinated
External Review Panel: • Pat Kelleher (Chair), Retired Director, Cork Institute of Technology;
• David Parry (Secretary);
• Donald Baker, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, United Arab Emirates University and Former Director, Post Secondary Education Quality Assessment Board, Ontario, Canada;
• Anna Carroll, Retired Head of Education and Research, CERT, now Fáilte Ireland;
• Andrew Cubie, Chairperson of Joint Advisory Committee, Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework;
• John Cullen, Director General, Institute of Public Administration;
• Karl Dittrich, Chairman of NVAO - Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders;
• Bernadette Farrell, Education Officer, Union of Students in Ireland.
Review Outcome: Full membership granted 5 March 2008
External Review Link: http://www.enqa.eu/files/NQAI Review Report.pdf
NVAO - Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (The Netherlands)
 Contact person
Dr. K.L.L.M. Dittrich
Chairman
info@nvao.net Contact detailsParkstraat 28 / Postbus 85498
2508 CD The Hague
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 70 312 23 00
Fax: +31 70 312 23 01
http://www.nvao.net
Founding Date: 2002
ENQA Full Membership: 2003
Ownership: NVAO is created by treaty between the Netherlands and Flanders as an independant quality assurance agency. There is no influence of universities, university colleges or the Dutch or Flemish Ministry of Education.
Scope of Authority: Accreditation of all programmes in Dutch and Flemish Higher Education, i.e. universities, university colleges and other institutes of higher education.
Agency's Role: The organisation is responsible for accreditation of existing degree courses and the assessment of new degree courses.
Keywords: Accreditation
Review Date: 2007
External Review Type: Nationally coordinated
External Review Panel: • Helmut Konrad (Chair), Former chairman of the Austrian Accreditation Council, former Board member ENQA, professor University of Graz;
• Carlo Hover (Secretary), Independent expert in quality assurance in higher education, The Netherlands;
• Frans Leynse, Former chairman of the „HBO-raad‟ (the Association of Universities of Applied science), member of the House of Lords of The Netherlands, Professor at the Open University in The Netherlands, Lector at the „Hogeschool van Utrecht‟ (a University of Professional Education);
• Marcel Crochet, Former rector of the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, advisor of the Minister of Higher Education of the French Community of Belgium;
• Andrée Sursock, Deputy Secretary General in charge with quality assurance of European University Association (EUA);
• Caroline Campbell, Director at the Quality Assurance Agency in higher education (QAA);
• David Dill, Professor of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Director of the Research Programme on Public Policy for Academic Quality;
• Stephan Neetens, Student appointed by the Dutch and Flemish Student Unions.
Review Outcome: Full membership reconfirmed 20 December 2007
External Review Link: http://www.enqa.eu/files/NVAO review report.pdf
NOKUT - Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (Norway)
 Contact person
Terje Mørland
Director General
Terje.Moerland@nokut.no Contact detailsP.Box 1708 Vika
N-0121 Oslo
Norway
Phone: # 47 21 02 18 30; Mobile: + 47 41 22 31 99
Fax: + 47 21 02 18 01
http://www.nokut.no
Founding Date: 1998
ENQA Full Membership: 2000
Ownership: Ministry of Education and Research.
Scope of Authority: Professional and independent governmental agency.
Agency's Role: NOKUT is an internationally recognised quality assurance agency. The agency serves to create public trust in the quality of Norwegian higher education, tertiary vocational education and recognised foreign education qualifications. NOKUT's responsibility also covers general recognition of foreign higher education qualifications.
Keywords: Audit-evaluations, institutional evaluations, thematic evaluations, evaluations of study programmes. Recognition of foreign higher education qualifications.
Methods Used: Evaluate the institutional systems for quality assurance (audits), accreditation of institutions and programs, revision of accredited institutions and programs and carry out other evaluations.
Review Date: 2008
External Review Type: Nationally coordinated
External Review Panel: • Lee Harvey, The Higher Education Academy, UK;
• Jeroen Huisman, International Centre for Higher Education Management, University of Bath, UK;
• Liv Langfeldt, NIFU STEP, Norway;
• Bjørn Stensaker, NIFU STEP, Norway;
• Don Westerheijden, Center for Higher Education Policy Studies, University
of Twente, the Netherlands.
Review Outcome: Full membership reconfirmed 11 June 2008.
External Review Link: http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/kd/dok/rapporter_planer/rapporter/2008/eva...
PKA - The State Accreditation Committee (Poland)
 Contact person
Izabela Kwiatkowska-Sujka
Deputy Director
sujka@pka.edu.pl Contact detailsZurawia 32/34 str.
00-515 Warsaw
Poland
Phone: + 48 22 622 07 18
http://www.pka.edu.pl
Founding Date: 2002
ENQA Full Membership: 2009
Ownership: Independent statutory body established by the Higher Education Act.
Scope of Authority: To assess the quality of education in individual fields of study; and to give opinions on applications for the establishment of new higher education institutions, the extension of permits for the establishment of non-public institutions, and for the authorisation for higher education institutions to establish new degree programmes.
Agency's Role: Support Polish public and non-public higher education institutions in the development of educational standards matching the best models adopted in the European and global academic space. Act as a platform for co-operation and dialogue between all parties interested to work with a view to ensuring high quality of higher education.
Keywords: Assessment, accreditation
Methods Used: Self evaluation, site visits, written reports, published quality rating, and a follow up procedure.
Review Date: 2008
External Review Type: Nationally coordinated
External Review Panel: • Dr. Nicholas Harris (Chair), independent international expert;
• Oddvar Haugland, international expert, Chief executive officer of NOKUT, the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education ;
• Ewa Kolanowska (Secretary), Polish-English interpreter, consultant in HE area;
• Marek Wasowicz, Chairman of the University Accreditation Commission, former Vice-Rector of the University of Warsaw;
• Edward Jezierski, Vice-Rector for Education Affairs of the Technical University of Lodz;
• Viorel Proteasa, foreign representative of students, ANOSR Romania, member of the Commission for Internal Audit of the European Students' Union (ESU).
Review Outcome: Full membership granted 23 January 2009
External Review Link: http://www.enqa.eu/files/PKA external review - final report.doc
ARACIS - Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (Romania)
 Contact person
Radu Damian
Director, QA Evaluation Department
mail@aracis.ro Contact detailsSchitu Magureanu nr. 1, sector 5
050025 Bucharest
Romania
Phone: +40 21 206 76 00
Fax: +40 21 312 71 35
http://www.aracis.ro
Founding Date: 2005
ENQA Full Membership: 2009
Ownership: According to the Romanian law, ARACIS is a legal, financially independent and autonomous public institution of national interest. It continues to perform the functions of the former Romanian National Council for Academic Assessment and Accreditation (NCAAA).
Scope of Authority: ARACIS is an autonomous public institution, with the task of assuring and improving the quality of the higher education system in Romania.
Agency's Role: ARACIS is responsible for both accreditation and quality assurance in higher education.
Keywords: Evaluation, review, audit and accreditation.
Methods Used: ARACIS undertakes on a regular basis the following core activities: evaluation (on an ongoing basis and upon request), review, audit, and accreditation.
Review Date: 2009
External Review Type: ENQA-coordinated
External Review Panel: • Prof. György Bazsa, Hungarian Accreditation Committee, Hungary, (chairman)
• Obe de Vries, Inspectorate of Education, the Netherlands, (secretary)
• Prof. Jacques Willems, Ghent University, Belgium
• Stefan Delplace, EURASHE nomination, Belgium
• Koen Geven, ESU nomination, the Netherlands
Review Outcome: Full membership granted 2 June 2009
External Review Link: /files/final report ARACIS 18 May 2009.pdf
NAA - National Accreditation Agency of the Russian Federation (Russia)
 Contact person
Ms Irina Tatarinova, Director;
edu@nica.ru Contact details3 Lenin Square
424000 Yoshkar-Ola
Russia
Phone: +7 (8362) 416194
Fax: +7 (8362) 413884
http://www.nica.ru
Founding Date: 1995
ENQA Full Membership: 2009
Ownership: NAA operates under the authority of the Federal Service of Supervision in Education and Science.
Scope of Authority: NAA is recognised as the organisation in Russia responsible for dissemination of knowledge and information on procedures of the state accreditation of HEIs.
Agency's Role: Develops materials and methodological recommendations for conducting self-evaluations and external reviews, trains experts, conducts research into the development of QA of higher education in Russia, prepares the final reports on the quality of the HEI.
Keywords: Self-evaluation, external reviews, accreditation criteria.
Methods Used: Methodological recommendations, research, training of experts.
Review Date: 2008
External Review Type: Nationally coordinated
External Review Panel: • Riitta Pyykkö, (chair), Professor, University of Turku, Finland and chair of the Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council (FINHEEC);
• Vladimir A. Zernov, Professor, chairman of the Board of the Association of Nongovernmental Education Institutions of Russia;
• Evgeny V. Kondratjev, fifth-year student of Russian Legal Academy of the Ministry of Justice of Russian Federation, chairman of Student Council;
• Ivan Panayotov, professor, chairman of the Bulgarian National Evaluation and Accreditation Agency (NEAA);
• Tiit Laasberg, panel secretary, Estonian Higher Education Accreditation Centre (EHEAC), Foundation Archimedes.
Review Outcome: Granted Full membership on 7 September, 2009
External Review Link: /files/NAA_Externa_Evaluation_report_English_final.doc
ACSUCYL - Quality Assurance Agency for the University System in Castilla y León (Spain)
 Contact person
Elena Tejedor Viñuela
Director
tejvine@acsucyl.es Contact detailsC/ Fray Luis de León nº 10
47002 Valladolid
Spain
Phone: +34 983 21 40 60
Fax: +34 983 21 40 16
http://www.acsucyl.es
Founding Date: 2001
ENQA Full Membership: 2010
Ownership: Independent from the regional government, directed by a Board of Directors.
Scope of Authority: University System in Castilla y León.
Agency's Role: Evaluation, certification and accreditation of the activities related to the quality of the university system, and specifically the evaluation of teaching staff, degrees, research, as well as institutional quality. The agency also carries out cooperation and coordination activities.
Keywords: assessment, quality assurance, continual improvement, accountability and proactivity.
Review Date: 2009
External Review Type: Nationally coordinated
External Review Panel: • Nick Harris (peer leader), UK Bologna expert, director of
development and enhancement, QAA, United Kingdom (until 30
September 2008);
• Irene Müller, delegate for international affairs at the Austrian
Fachhochschulrat, Austria;
• Lluís Ferrer i Caubet, former rector of the Università Autònoma de
Barcelona, Spain, currently invited professor at the Université
Montréal, Faculté de medecine vétérinaire, Montreal, Canada;
• Manuel Barbancho, co-founder of the Sociedad Mixta Biovet-UCO
S.L, professor at the University of Cordoba, Spain, ex-Director of
UCA (former Andalusian University Quality Assurane Agency),
Spain;
• Severo Natanael de la Calle, student of chemical engineering at the
University of Salamanca, Spain;
• Stephanie Maurer, scientific collaborator, OAQ, Switzerland
(secretary to the panel).
Review Outcome: Full membership granted 5 February, 2010
External Review Link: /files/Acsucyl review report 09 locked.pdf
ACSUG - Agency for Quality Assurance in the Galician University System (Spain)
 Contact person
José Eduardo López Pereira
Director
director@acsug.es, acsug@acsug.es Contact detailsC/ Lamas de Abade s/n. Edificio IES “Compostela” 5ª planta
15702 Santiago de Compostela
Spain
Phone: +34 981 53 41 73
Fax: +34 981 53 41 74
http://www.acsug.es
Founding Date: 2001
ENQA Full Membership: 2009
Ownership: The agency is independent and has its own full legal personality. ACSUG has established a clear difference in the structure and functions between the governing bodies (Director, President and Board of Directors), the assessment organs (Galician Committee for Reports, Assessment, Certification and Accreditation (CGIACA)) and the consultative organs (Advisory Board).
Scope of Authority: Galician University System.
Agency's Role: Assessment, certification and accreditation of institutions (programmes, services, teaching activity evaluation, Internal Quality Assurance Systems of the centres and other processes).
Labour market insertion analysis and surveys. Evaluation of teaching staff prior to hiring in the Galician universities and evaluation of the teaching staff for the assignment of complementary compensation.
Keywords: Independence, transparency, objectivity, stakeholders, feedback, continuous improvement, accountability.
Review Date: 2009
External Review Type: ENQA-coordinated
External Review Panel: • Christian Thune, Chair
• Anne Crausaz Esseiva, Secretary
• Lluis Jofre, ENQA nomination
• Maria Helena Vaz de Carvalho Nazaré, European University
Association (EUA) nomination
• Anthony Camilleri, European Students’ Union (ESU) nomination
Review Outcome: Full membership granted 16 November 2009
External Review Link: /files/ACSUG_expert report_(31July09 ).pdf
AGAE - Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education and Research of Andalusia (Spain)
 Contact person
Elias Fereres
Director
direccion.agae@juntadeandalucia.es Contact detailsAvenida Al Nasir, n. 3, planta 3a, puerta 2
E-14006 Córdoba
Spain
Phone: +34 957 355 020
Fax: +34 957 355 039
http://www.agae.es
Founding Date: 2001
ENQA Full Membership: 2000
Ownership: Independent from regional government.
Scope of Authority: Regional university and R&D systems.
Agency's Role: Assessment of teaching and management activities in universities. Assessment of R&D activities (competitive projects, research groups, professors and researchers).
Keywords: Andalusia, assessment, evaluation, experts, independent.
Methods Used: Peer review, experts review.
Review Date: –
External Review Type: ENQA-coordinated
External Review Panel: • Séamus Puirséil, lately Chief Executive of the Higher Education & Training Awards Council for Ireland (Chairman)
• Professor Domingo Do Campo, Department of Signal Theory and Communications, University of Vigo, (and formerly Rector of the University of Vigo), Spain
• Thierry Malan, lately General Inspector for Administration of National Education and Research, Ministry of Education and Research, France
• Rossella Iraci Capuccinello, doctoral postgraduate student, Lancaster University, UK, and lately member of the Executive Committee of the European Students Association.
• Paul Mitchell, (Secretary to the Panel), independent HE consultant, UK.
Review Outcome: Full membership reconfirmed 16 March 2009.
External Review Link: /files/AGAE Review Report Final 170109.doc
ANECA - National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation of Spain (Spain)
 Contact person
Zulima Fernández
Director
direccion@aneca.es Contact detailsC/Orense 11, 7a planta
28020 Madrid
Spain
Phone: +34 91 417 8230
Fax: +34 91 556 86 42
http://www.aneca.es
Founding Date: 2002
ENQA Full Membership: 2003
Ownership: Independent from government, directed by a board of trustees.
Scope of Authority: National.
Agency's Role: Independent, non-profit body.
Review Date: 2007
External Review Type: ENQA-coordinated
External Review Panel: • Dorte Kristoffersen (Chair), Former Audit Director of the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA), Secretary of the Asia-Pacific Quality Network (APQN), China;
• Hildegard Vermeiren (Secretary), Professor at the University College Ghent, Belgium;
• Fiona Crozier, Assistant Director of the Development and Enhancement Group, Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), United Kingdom;
• Julio Pedrosa, Former Rector and Professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal;
• Michel Troquet, Professor at the University Blaise Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand and Director of the Ecole Polytechnique in Marseille, France;
• Maher Tekaya, Student at the University of Picardie Jules Verne, France.
Review Outcome: Full membership reconfirmed 20 September 2007
External Review Link: http://www.enqa.eu/files/ANECA%20review%20report%20final%202007.pdf
AQU - Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency (Spain)
 Contact person
Josep Anton Ferré Vidal
Director
direccio@aqucatalunya.org Contact detailsVia Laietana, 28, 5
08003 Barcelona
Spain
Phone: + 34 93 268 89 50
Fax: + 34 93 268 89 51
http://www.aqucatalunya.org
Founding Date: 1996
ENQA Full Membership: 2000
Ownership: The agency is independent, but funded by the Ministry of Education and Universities of the Catalan Government. The Board of the agency is comprised of representatives from different institutions, government and independent members.
Scope of Authority: All universities in Catalonia.
Agency's Role: Evaluation, certification and accreditation of institutions (programmes, centres, services, processes) and teaching staff.
Keywords: Quality assurance, improvement, accountability and cooperation.
Methods Used: External assessments based on self-evaluation.
Review Date: 2007
External Review Type: ENQA-coordinated
External Review Panel: • Thierry Malan (Chair), Quality Assurance Expert, Honorary Inspecteur général de l'administration de l'éducation nationale et de la recherche IGAENR, France;
• Michael G. Kraft (Secretary), Academic Staff Member, FH-Council, Austria;
• Maria José Lemaitre, Quality Assurance Expert, CNAP (Comisión Nacional de Acreditación), Chile;
• Jean-Marc Rapp, Representative of HEIs, European University Association (EUA), Switzerland;
• Maher Tekaya, Student Member, European Students’ Union (ESU), France.
Review Outcome: Full membership reconfirmed 07 September 2007
External Review Link: http://www.enqa.eu/files/AQU%20final%20review%20report%202007.pdf
NAHE - National Agency for Higher Education (Sweden)
 Contact person
Magnus Johansson
Assistant Head of Department
Magnus.Johansson@hsv.se Contact detailsBox 7851 (Luntmakargatan 13)
S-10399 Stockholm
Sweden
Phone: + 46 8 563 085 00
Fax: + 46 8 563 085 50
http://english.hsv.se/
Founding Date: 1993
ENQA Full Membership: 2000
Ownership: Government organisation.
Scope of Authority: Universities and university colleges and nursing colleges.
Agency's Role: Support and follow-up of quality assurance systems in HEIs. National evaluations. Accreditation of degree-level courses at university colleges and of private initiatives of higher education courses.
Keywords: Quality assurance systems: institutional procedures for assuring and developing quality in HE and research. National evaluations: evaluative studies of programmes, disciplines, units or aspects of HE.
Methods Used: Multi-method approach.
Review Date: 2006
External Review Type: Nationally coordinated
External Review Panel: • Dr. Rolf Sandahl (Chair), the Swedish National Financial Management Authority;
• Professor Madeleine Rohlin, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Malmö University College, Sweden;
• Marit Waerness:, Cand. Polit. Senior Advisor at Statskonsult, Norway;
• Professor John Brennan, Director of the Centre of Higher Education Research at the Open University, England;
• Kattis Sjunnesson, student in Political Science at Örebro University, Sweden.
Review Outcome: The ENQA Board re-confirmed the Full membership of NAHE (HsV) in ENQA in September 2006 on the basis of the external review of the Agency conducted in 2005.
External Review Link: http://www.enqa.eu/files/HSV%20review%20report.pdf
OAQ - Center for Accreditation and Quality Assurance of the Swiss Universities (Switzerland)
 Contact person
Laura Beccari
International Affairs Officer
info@oaq.ch Contact detailsFalkenplatz 9, P.O. Box
3001 Bern
Switzerland
Phone: +41 31 380 11 50
Fax: +41 31 380 11 55
http://www.oaq.ch
Founding Date: 2001
ENQA Full Membership: 2006
Ownership: OAQ operates independently, and bases its work on international practices and research findings.
Scope of Authority: OAQ is the only national agency active in the field of quality assurance and accreditation in higher education.
Agency's Role: OAQ accreditates institutions and study courses and carries out evaluation procedures and institutional audits. It defines the quality standards and develops guidelines for assessing the quality. OAQ’s focus is on quality evaluations and on quality improvement. The agency provides services and carries out mandates for the Swiss University Conference and other Federal partners. It also provides information about quality assurance and accreditation.
Review Date: 2006
External Review Type: Nationally coordinated
External Review Panel: • Professor Marco Baggiolini (Chair), President, Università della Svizzera
Italiana, Switzerland;
• Dr. Karl Dittrich, Chairman, Accreditation Organisation of the
Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO), Netherlands;
• Professor Christiane Heitz, Vice-President, Louis Pasteur
University, France;
• Dr. Achim Hopbach, Managing Director, German Accreditation
Council, Germany;
• Dr. Christian Thieme, former Deputy Secretary-General, Conference of Cultural Ministers in Germany (KMK), Germany;
• Ms Lesley Wilson, Secretary General, European University Association (EUA), Belgium;
• Dr. Gerhard Schuwey, Advisory Services;
• Dr. Andrea Stegmann, Administration.
Review Outcome: Full Membership granted 12 December 2006
External Review Link: http://www.enqa.eu/files/OAQBroschure_engl.pdf
QAA - Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (UK)
 Contact person
Anthony McClaran
Chief Executive
a.mcclaran@qaa.ac.uk Contact detailsSouthgate House, Southgate Street
GL1 1 UB Gloucester
UK
Phone: + 44 1452 55 7000
Fax: + 44 1452 55 7070
http://www.qaa.ac.uk/
Founding Date: 1997
ENQA Full Membership: 2000
Ownership: Independent organisation. Board comprises representatives of institutions, representatives of government funding agencies, and independent members.
Scope of Authority: All universities and HEIs in the UK. Collaborative provision between UK HEIs and overseas partners and between HEIs and further education establishments.
Agency's Role: To promote public confidence that quality of provision and standards of awards are being safeguard and enhanced.
Keywords: Audit: review at the institutional level with particular reference to the awarding function; Assessment: review at the programme level; The Agency is currently developing a new, integrated approach to quality assurance for implementation from 2000.
Methods Used: Institutional audit; programme review; special scrutinies (eg in relation to applications for degree awarding powers).
Review Date: 2008
External Review Type: Nationally coordinated
External Review Panel: • David Sherlock CBE (Chair), Director ‘Beyond Standards’ Ltd.; former chief inspector of adult learning (not HE) for England
• Colin Baker (HEI representative, Wales), Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Bangor University
• Keith Bartlett (HEI representative, England), Deputy Principal, Norwich School of Art and Design
• Jim Birch (Stakeholder representative), Head of International Recognition, Engineering Council
• Liam Burns (Student representative), President, Heriot-Watt University Students' Association
• Andrea Nolan (HEI representative, Scotland), Vice-Principal, University of Glasgow
• Christian Thune (External QA expert/International), lately Executive Director of the Danish Government’s Evaluation Institute for Danish Education
• Paul Mitchell (Secretary to the Panel), Independent HE Consultant
Review Outcome: Full membership reconfirmed 19 November 2008.
External Review Link: http://www.qaa.ac.uk/international/ENQA/ENQAReviewReport.pdf
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