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What emerges from the institutional accreditation results of Estonian higher education institutions? This article, Measuring What Matters – an Exploratory Study on the Estonian Institutional Accreditation Outcomes, provides an overview of the areas in which our higher education institutions are strong, the recurring challenges they face, and what these findings reveal more broadly about the…

The HAKA Digital Education Quality Working Group has created a questionnaire for students to better understand your experiences, expectations, and needs in digital learning. The goal of the survey is to find out what supports students in online learning and which quality criteria you consider most important. Your perspective matters – by including the student…

At the end of September, the Ukrainian Higher Education Quality Forum took place at Lutsk National Technical University. One of the conference sessions was dedicated to a joint project between the Estonian Quality Agency for Education (HAKA) and the Ukrainian National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance (NAQA). The project ran during 2024–2025 and focused…

On June 13–14, members of the Central and Eastern European Network of Quality Agencies in Higher Education (CEENQA) gathered in Tallinn at the invitation of the Estonian Quality Agency for Education. The event included the annual meeting and a workshop. The focus of the meeting was the relationship between higher education and the needs of…

From May 2024 to December 2025, HAKA and NAQA (Ukraine) are implementing ajoint project with the aim to develop and test a model for institutional accreditationof higher education institutions in Ukraine. The institutional accreditation model wasdeveloped in May-June 2024. Direct beneficiaries of the project are NAQA staff, employees and stakeholders of 3 pilot universities: Kyiv…

The Assessment Council of the Estonian Education Quality Agency (HAKA) decided to accredit the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (Academy) for the next seven years and awarded it the HAKA Quality Label. The Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (the Academy) was accredited by the spcialized agency MusiQuE (Music Quality Enhancement) in close cooperation…