TKTA • Agency for Quality Assurance in Education

TKTA is an ENQA Affiliate.

According to the relevant Decree signed by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan on 29.12.2019, the Accreditation and Nostrification Department of the Ministry of Education was reorganized into the Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (TKTA) with the status of a public legal entity.

The primary activities and responsibilities of the TKTA are as follows:

• Accreditation of institutions operating at all levels of education;
• To prepare recommendations for the accreditation of educational institutions and organize trainings;
• To organize consulting and methodological support services related to the establishment and development of internal quality assurance systems in educational institutions;
• Taking part in the licensing of education institutions;
• Recognition of the higher education qualifications of foreign countries;
• Evaluation and recognition of the knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience acquired through non-formal and informal forms of vocational education.