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On July 27th, 2021, the State Council of Quality (SCQ) of the Kosovo Accreditation Agency (KAA) held its 87th meeting. In accordance with the agenda for the meeting, SCQ reviewed all the reports of international experts for institutional and programme accreditation. SCQ has decided on all reports of international experts and thus has created the opportunity for opening the call for admission of new student in all accredited institutions and programs in the Republic of Kosovo for the new academic year 2021/2022. In addition, SCQ has reviewed and decided on all complaints and requests submitted to this institution. All decisions of [...]

The Central and Eastern European Network of Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (CEENQA), for the second time in six months, also in July 2021, has introduced the Kosovo Accreditation Agency (KAA) as a success story in management of the accreditation process and quality assurance in higher education. CEENQA in the magazine of July 2021, has highly praised the completion of the accreditation process of 239 academic programs in Kosovo, despite the many limitations of the pandemic. CEENQA presented the successful work of KAA in these areas: - Drafting the Law on KAA; - Preparation of the Strategic Plan; - Preparation [...]

The Director of the Kosovo Accreditation Agency (KAA), Naim Gashi, was received by representatives of the Public Diplomacy Section, at the U.S. Embassy in Pristina, where the ongoing projects were discussed. During the meeting they talked about the importance of increasing the quality of higher education and connection of the education system with the labor market. Another topic of the meeting was importance of the institutional independence of the Accreditation Agency, transparency and accountability in order to strengthen development of the higher education system in Kosovo.

Under the chairmanship of the Minister of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation, Arbërie Nagavci, the State Council of Quality (SCQ) of the Republic of Kosovo, continued the constitutive meeting, where the new chairman was elected: Professor Hasnije Ilazi was elected Chairperson, while Professor Cassie Barnhardt Vice-Chairperson. According to the Administrative Instruction, the first constitutive meeting is chaired by the Minister of MESTI. The State Council of Quality consists of 9 members, 6 local and 3 international members.

On behalf of the U.S. Embassy in Kosovo, the American Councils for International Education, Office in Kosovo, on Wednesday confirmed the decision of the United States-Kosovo Educational Exchange Board (USKEB) to approve the Kosovo Accreditation Agency (KAA) ’s request for a Fulbright Specialist. The American expert will contribute to the drafting of a detailed project for digitalization of the accreditation process in KAA. With this project, KAA will be on trend with other counterpart agencies in Europe in the processes of external evaluation and quality assurance in higher education. KAA welcomes the decision of USKEB, which will have a direct impact [...]

The Kosovo Accreditation Agency (KAA) today organized a one-day workshop to review the draft Regulation on internal organization and systematization of jobs in the KAA. The purpose of this Regulation, which is expected to be finalized very soon, is to determine the internal organization and systematization of jobs in the KAA, as well as the description of job duties for the positions which constitute its organizational structure. The regulation was prepared by external experts engaged with the support of the project "Quality, accountability, integrity and transparency in higher education" (QAINT). The QAINT project is funded by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA), [...]

Press release HERAS Plus Project supports the KAA with Guidelines for External Accreditation of HEI’s and Study Programmes Kosovo Accreditation Agency (KAA) and the Project Higher Education, Research and Applied Sciences Plus presented the Guidelines for External Accreditation of Higher Education Institutions and Study Programmes, an Induction and training Manual developed to provide practice-based guidelines to the international evaluation experts assigned to conduct an external evaluation of the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Kosovo on behalf of the Kosovo Accreditation Agency (KAA). The Manual is vital as the Agency will use it to provide experts with formal training in relevant topics [...]

Project funded by the U.S. Embassy supports KAA to meet the criteria for the return to ENQA On Tuesday, Kosovo Accreditation Agency (KAA) and WUS Kosova held a Virtual Conference on "Challenges of implementing ESG standards by higher education institutions in Kosovo", funded by the U.S. Embassy in Pristina, through the University Support Grants Program. Professor Dukagjin Zeka, a member of the State Quality of Council, highlighted that "the return of KAA to ENQA is one of our main priorities". “Kosovo Accreditation Agency in the last year has approved a dynamic plan for the implementation of all criteria that enable a [...]

Following the successful completion of the institutional evaluation process, on Tuesday at the University of Applied Sciences in Ferizaj, the Kosovo Accreditation Agency started the process of evaluation of academic programs. In the accreditation process 2021, there are 240 academic programs of all higher education institutions in the Republic of Kosovo which are being evaluated by renowned international experts. KAA remains committed to conclude this process within the foreseen timeline.

Kosovo Accreditation Agency (KAA) and the members of the State Council of Quality (SCQ), after a consultative meeting held on Friday, 05.02.2021, inform all higher education institutions in the Republic of Kosovo that the Agency continues the process of evaluation for institutional and academic programs accreditation. The recent resignations from the SCQ, at this phase, have no impact on the current activities of the Accreditation Agency. Kosovo Accreditation Agency remains hopeful that local institutions and international partners, in accordance with the legal framework, will contribute to filling the positions foreseen for international members of the SCQ, which will restore the full [...]