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The Kosovo Accreditation Agency (KAA) held on 09.09.2021 a workshop where the prepared draft of the three-year Strategic Plan of KAA was reviewed. The meeting was attended by the State Council of Quality, the Appeals Commission, representatives of the Heras Plus project and international expert Bastian Baumann. KAA has prepared an initial draft of the Strategic Plan, which was then supplemented by four local experts and now with the support of the Heras Plus Project, is being discussed by the international expert to harmonize with the recommendations of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) and European [...]

The State Council of Quality (SCQ) of the Republic of Kosovo in its meeting held on September 7th, 2021, decided to supplment the Basic Principles of the Accreditation Manual, respectively points 3, 4 and 5 have been added, while the accreditation standards at the level of programs and at the institutional level have remained the same. In point 3 of the general principles of the Accreditation Manual, the criteria for accreditation of General Medicine programs are supplemented. In point 4 of the general principles of the Accreditation Manual are supplemented the criteria for accreditation of branches of higher education institutions. [...]

All students and graduates who need to obtain confirmations for the accreditation of their study programs can now get them online without having to physically visit the Kosovo Accreditation Agency. This project is funded by the US Embassy in Pristina, in the framework of supporting the capacity building of the Kosovo Accreditation Agency. This is a great achievement, because in addition to increasing the security of the issuance of documentation, and eliminating all possibilities for human error, this platform also increases the reliability of documents issued by the Kosovo Accreditation Agency to international partners. Every confirmation issued electronically, is verifiable [...]

The Director of the Kosovo Accreditation Agency (KAA), Naim Gashi, met with Mr. Stergios Tragoudas, Program Manager - Education and Human Resources Development at the EU Office in Pristina. During the meeting they discussed about the planned support to KAA under IPA 2020. Mr. Tragoudas said that in its last report the European Commission has evaluated the work of KAA very positively. They discussed about the planned support to KAA under IPA 2020, to strengthen the capacities of KAA and to fulfil the recommendations for regaining the membership in ENQA and EQAR.

In order to be fully transparent and accountable to the public, the Kosovo Accreditation Agency (KAA) has published today (13.08.2021) all decisions and final reports of the international accreditation experts. https://akreditimi.rks-gov.net/en/decisions/ Full transparency and accountability is one of the recommendations of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA), which the KAA is fully implementing. The accreditation process for the programs of the academic year 2021/2022, started in January of this year and ended successfully on July 27, 2021, when the State Council of Quality made their decisions on the reports of international accreditation experts. After several years, for [...]