EQAR: Three new agencies listed on the Register

23 october 2013: At its meeting in Ghent last week, the Register Committee accepted the following agencies to the Register. The Estonian Higher Education Quality Agency (EKKA), the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA, United Kingdom) and the Slovenian Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (SQAA).
The Register now features 32 agencies that have demonstrated to operate in substantial compliance with the European Standard and Guidelines.
European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education
In most European countries, higher education institutions or study programmes are subject to regular external review by a quality assurance agency. The European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR) is a register of such agencies, listing those that substantially comply with a common set of principles for quality assurance in Europe. These principles are laid down in the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance. The register is web-based and freely accessible for everyone. Read more...

Register of QA Agencies

AAC-DEVA - Andalusian Agency of Knowledge, Department of Evaluation and Accreditation	Spain
ACQUIN - Accreditation, Certification and Quality Assurance Institute	Germany
ACSUCYL - Quality Assurance Agency for the University System of Castilla y León	Spain
ACSUG - Agency for Quality Assurance in the Galician University System	Spain
AEQES - Agence pour l'Evaluation de la Qualité de l'Enseignement Supérieur	Belgium
AERES - Evaluation Agency for Research and Higher Education	France
AHPGS – Accreditation Agency in Health and Social Sciences	Germany
ANECA - National Agency for the Quality Assessment and Accreditation of Spain	Spain
AQAS - Agency for Quality Assurance through Accreditation of Study Programmes	Germany
AQU - Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency	Spain
ARACIS – Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education	Romania
ASHE - Agency for Science and Higher Education	Croatia
ASIIN e.V.	Germany
CTI - Engineering Degree Commission	France
ECCE - European Council on Chiropractic Education	Germany
EKKA - Estonian Higher Education Quality Agency	Estonia
EVA - Danish Evaluation Institute	Denmark
evalag - Evaluation Agency Baden-Württemberg	Germany
FIBAA - Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation	Germany
FINHEEC - Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council	Finland
IEP - Institutional Evaluation Programme	Switzerland
NEAA - National Evalution and Accreditation Agency	Bulgaria
NVAO - Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders	Netherlands
OAQ - Swiss Center of Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education	Switzerland
PKA - Polish Accreditation Committee	Poland
QAA - Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education	United Kingdom
QANU - Quality Assurance Netherlands Universities	Netherlands
SKVC - Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education	Lithuania
SQAA - Slovenian Quality Assurance Agency	Slovenia
The Accreditation Institution	Denmark