On December 2, 2021 Eurasian Centre for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education and Health Care (ECAQA) hosted an international webinar which is entitled “Introduction to Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education area (ESG 2015)”.

An invited speaker of the webinar was Ronny Heintz, a senior consultant at the Agency for Quality Assurance through Accreditation of Study Programmes (AQAS), Germany which is a partnership organization of ECAQA.

In total, 115 participants were registered - representatives of education institutions of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Russian Federation and South Korea.

The aim of the webinar was the capacity development of ECAQA accreditation experts by demonstrating the role of ESG in quality assurance of education and applying it in the accreditation process of education institutions.

The role of foreign experts and students’ representatives in the external quality assurance of education was discussed, as well as the experience of Germany in accreditation was presented. Mr Ronny Heintz described the ESG part 2 and 3, while the focus was made to the Part 1.

The record of the webinar is available on https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QfzhGhLEcM7FGc3fK02q6b3AShNCs-SW/view?usp=sharing

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On November 18-19, 2021 Eurasian Centre for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education and Health Care (ECAQA) participated at the international forum on quality assurance. The event was organized by the E-4 group which is the main stakeholder of higher education in Europe. The E-4 consists of the European University Association (EUA), European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA), European Association of Institutions in Higher Education (EURASHE) and European Students’ Union (ESU). The forum is entitled “2021 European Quality Assurance Forum”. The forum speakers were the first leaders and advisers of European quality assurance agencies and professors of higher education institutions.

Speakers and forum participants discussed the importance of building trust in accreditation through the digitization of higher education and the involvement of external stakeholders. Along with interesting discussions, an online platform provided an opportunity to expand the networking for participants from different parts of the world.

ECAQA expresses its gratitude to the European Associations for organizing such a large-scale event that united more than 600 participants.

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