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During the period of September 2014 to June 2015, Estonian Quality Agency for Higher and Vocational Education (EKKA) supported Moldova in creating their national quality agency for higher and professional education. EKKA organised trainings for future staff members of the agency as well as for higher education institutions and potential accreditation experts. EKKA also participated…
The Development Manager Dr Maiki Udam was elected to the INQAAHE (International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education) Board. The newly elected president of the network is the president of APQN (Asia Pasific Quality Network) Dr Jagannath Patil (India). INQAAHE is a world-wide association of over 200 organisations active in the theory and…
International accreditation assessment committees visited Tallinn University of Technology, TTK University of Applied Sciences and Lääne-Viru College this autumn. On the basis of the reports of the assessment committees the EKKA (Estonian Higher Education Quality Agency) Quality Assessment Council adopted a decision on 28 January to accredit Tallinn University of Technology and TTK University of…
The Finnish-Estonian joint project competed with Lithuanian-Austrian, French-Spanish, and Greek project proposals and had a total procurement value of 1.3 million euros. The overall objective of this Twinning project is to support the development of higher education in Azerbaijan in accordance with the principles of the European Higher Education Area. The project was presented to…
Maiki Udam, Development Manager of the Estonian Higher Education Quality Agency (EKKA), was elected to the Accreditation Council of the Independent Kazakhstan Quality Assurance Agency in Education (IQAA). The IQAA Council of Accreditation is the highest decision-making body of IQAA. It adopts decisions regarding accreditation of higher education institutions and their study programmes in Kazakhstan.…
Director of EKKA Heli Mattisen participates in development of Ukrainian higher education act
The Ukrainian parliament adopted a higher education act on 1 July which had involved external experts in its development. The comments and suggestions of EKKA were taken into account in the act in regards to principles of ensuring the quality of higher education and creating a higher education quality agency. See also: letter of appreciation…