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As of the 1st of August 2020, the Estonian Quality Agency for Higher and Vocational Education (EKKA) operates within the Education and Youth Authority, a governmental body under the administration of the Ministry of Education and Research. On June 3, 2020, the parliament passed amendments to the law establishing the Education and Youth Authority on…

From this autumn EKKA will develop and start implementing a quality assurance system for continuing education. The two year project financed by the Ministry of Education and Research has two main objectives: To develop and launch a system for checking the compliance of providers registered in the Estonian Education Information System with relevant legislation. To…

What is institutional accreditation? The aim of institutional accreditation is to evaluate the functioning and management of a higher education institution as a whole, the effectiveness and management of provision of studies as well as research and development activities and the institution’s service to society. A positive accreditation outcome should give assurance that a higher…

The Estonian Quality Agency for Higher and Vocational Education (EKKA) will conduct a thematic assessment in the second semester of 2018 on the learning and teaching experience of foreign students in Estonian higher education institutions. The objective of the assessment is to get an overview of best practices as well as shortcomings related to learning,…