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Georgia
The National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement was founded on 1 September, 2010 and is the legal successor of the National Center for Educational Accreditation. The centre is responsible for the authorisation and accreditation of Georgian educational institutions. Further tasks comprise the quality enhancement of qualifications and professional standards, the [...]

Belgium
The website on Higher Education in Flanders is run by the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO). You can find the following content on this website (see also Short introduction): * Information on studying in Flanders * Information on the higher education system in Flanders * Information on accredited programmes and institution in higher [...]

Belgium; Netherlands
Together, the Netherlands and Flanders run an entity for accreditation and quality assurance of educational institutions in their respective countries. The NVAO also organises the accredition of foreign qualifications. Its website provides a lot of information on the work processes of NVAO, including annual reports on accreditation processes, guidelines, criteria and much [...]

international
The BQ portal provides information in order to assess foreign professional qualifications. The respective country profiles normally comprise information on five sectors of foreign VET systems: VET system itself, historical development, professional profiles, legal basis, additional information. The portal was created in the course of a new law on the "Improvement of the [...]

Argentina
The "National Commission for the Evaluation and Accreditation of Universities" (CONEAU) recrutes researchers in education and experts from universities in the whole of Argentina to act as evaluators and reviewers. CONEAU\'s work also includes quality assurance of research and teaching. The evaluation of more than 40 universities is documented in freely accessible publications [...]

Palestinian Autonomous Areas
The website of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research provides information on educational goals and planning, statistics, laws and regulations, research, funding and scholarships, accreditation, exams and more. Unfortunately, most of the information is in Arabic - you will find some exceptions for example in the statistics (see single documents). [...]

Palestinian Autonomous Areas
The Palestinian Accreditation and Quality Assurance Commission is in charge of the accreditation and quality assurance of higher education institutions and academic programmes in Palestine. Unfortunately, there is no longer an English version of the website. You will find information in Arabic on Licensed Higher Education Institutions, on Accredited Academic Programs, on [...]

Greece
Δ.Ο.Α.Τ.Α.Π. (Hellenic NARIC) is an organization supervised by the Hellenic Ministry of Education. It is responsible for the recognition of university or technological degrees that are awarded by foreign Higher Education Institutions (H.E.I.). The Hellenic NARIC is also responsible for providing information about educational systems and [...]

Ukraine
The "Higher Attestation Commission of Ukraine" is a "national government agency (...) that oversees awarding of advanced academic degrees". The website is available in Ukrainian only. You will find some information on this kind of institutions in general in former Soviet states in the English Wikipedia article "Higher Attestation Commission". [Abstract: Wikpedia information [...]

Europe
Overview of the European Commission on activities of the European Union in the field of Higher Education in Europe. The site provides introductions and links to activities, programes, strategies, agendas and more. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

Russian Federation
NIC ARM is the national Russion centre for scientific accreditation and mobility. The website provides information on legal frameworks, accreditation centres in other countries (and Europe, ...), about political agreements on the recognition of educational certificates, about accreditation procedures and criteria, about quality assurance, about officially recognized Russian [...]

Russian Federation
The BQ portal serves in assessing foreign professional qualifications. It provides profiles of particular countries or professions that contain information about foreign vocational training systems and occupational qualifications. Beyond this, there is background information about the assessment practice in Germany, opportunities to exchange and connect plus aid for the [...]

China
The website of the Chinese Ministry for Education informs on its own structure and departments as well as on Chinese educational policy (incl. legal texts) or international agreements in the educational sector. Furthermore, you will find educational statistics (they have to be viewed via the Chinese sight, but there is an English translation for the single documents) and [...]

Ecuador
The Evaluation, Accreditation and Assurance Counsil for the Quality of Higher Education (CEAACES) contributes to the guarantee of quality of the institutions, programs and careers which are integrated in the national higher education system. This is effected by the application of continuous processes of autoevaluation, external evaluation and accreditation.

Costa Rica
The National Accreditation System for Higher Education (SINAES) is an institution of the Costa Rican state entrusted with the objective to promote the constant improvement of the quality in the higher education sector of the country. The system has been adapted by governmental as well as private university and parauniversity higher education institutions, which obligated [...]

Bolivia
The objective of the Multinational Observatory for the Quality of Education (OPCE) is to gather generate information about the situation of education and to design policies respectively proposals which deal with problems of education identified by a multinational control, measuring, evaluation and accreditation system. This shall contribute to the orientation and the [...]

Peru
The Peruvian Institute of Evaluation, Accreditation and Certification of the Quality of Basic Education (IPEBA) is a public, autonomous institution which is part of the National Evaluation, Accreditation and Certification System of Quality Education (SINEACE). Its main task is to guarantee the quality and permanent improvement of pulic and private colleges and technical [...]

Chile
The accreditation program of the assignment of pedagogic excellence (AEP) is a program of the ministry of education with the task, to strengthen the quality of education through the acknowledgement of professional performance. The accreditation process permits to identify those teachers which show knowledge, capabilty and competence in their performance. Those teachers, then [...]

Kenya
The Commission wishes to present an overview of higher education in Kenya. The Website also informs the public of the existing structure and operations of the Commission.

Greece
EOPPEP is the National Organisation for the Certification of Qualifications and Vocational Guidance, an all-encompassing statutory body investing on better quality and more efficient & reliable lifelong learning services in Greece. EOPPEP operates under the supervision of the Ministry of Education & Religious Affairs and is seated in Athens. It has derived from the [...]

international
The Council of International Schools is the premier organisation in International Education for the accreditation of schools and Best Practice development. CIS is a not-for-profit organisation of a worldwide international educational community comprising over 600 member schools and 450 colleges/universities. The central purpose of CIS is to enable member organisations to [...]

United Kingdom; England; Wales; Northern Ireland
The National Database of Accredited Qualifications (NDAQ) contains details of qualifications that are accredited by the regulators of external qualifications in England (Ofqual), Wales (DCELLS) and Northern Ireland (CCEA). Users can search for details on current and expired accredited qualifications.

Scotland; United Kingdom
SQA is an executive non-departmental public body (NDPB) sponsored by the Scottish Government Schools Directorate. It is the national body in Scotland responsible for the development, accreditation, assessment and certification of qualifications other than degrees.

Russian Federation
This website offers a list of officially approved higher education institutions in the Russian Federation, including websites and contact information. The institution which is in charge of the accreditation is the National Information Center on Academic Recognition and Mobility, which belongs to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

international
The main purpose of the Network is to collect and disseminate information on current and developing theory and practice in the assessment, improvement and maintenance of quality in higher education. The Network should a. o. facilitate research in the effectiveness of quality management, assist the development of new quality assurance agencies and facilitate links between [...]

Chile
This governmental commission has as its objective to establish a system of accreditation which secures quality in higher education. This system evaluates (on a voluntary basis) all programmes offered by Chilenian higher education institutions. The homepage provides information about contents and procedure of accreditation, criteria of evaluation, reference to legal texts and [...]

Switzerland
The Swiss Higher Education Conference is the joint organization of the cantons and the Confederation for university politics. It has the power to enforce a number of decisions in defined areas and has the following tasks: Issuing directives on the length of studies and recognition of previous studies and qualifications binding on the partners to the agreement; awarding [...]

Canada
CASWE-ACFTS is a national, charitable voluntary, association of university faculties, schools, departments, and modules offering social work education in Canada. The Association´s primary mandate is to support the promotion of excellence in social work education, scholarship, and practice. This mandate is primarily carried out through the accreditation of BSW and MSW social [...]

Canada
CAIS is a community of independent schools in Canada, which promotes the quality of education of its members by observing performance and compliance of educational standards. These are – besides being up to date with national standards – always desired to be congruent with the internationally accepted criteria and model core standards and therefore updated annually based [...]

Canada
Languages Canada was formed in March of 2008 as a result of a merger between the Canada Language Council (CLC) and CAPLS – The Canadian Association of Private Language Schools. It represents the two official languages English and French and promotes quality, accredited English and French language training in Canada, both nationally and internationally. All member schools are [...]

South Africa, Republic
Comissioned by the Minister of Higher Education and Training, the SAQA develops the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) for South Africa. It furthermore controlls the enforcement of the NQF and accredits educational institutions working according to the NQF. SAQA is also in charge of the accreditaion of foreign qualifications. The website provides information on the work [...]

Republic of Korea
KRIVET organizes its activities of vocational education around six main functions: (1) research and development, ( 2) evaluation and accreditation (of vocational qualifications), ( 3) information management, (4) policy consultation, ( 5) public services, ( 6) International cooperation.

France
The association represents the French Grandes Écoles as well as foreign higher education institutions of excellence that meet the membership criteria relating to structure, recruitment methods, teaching methods and support provided to students. The CGE accredits its members´ educational programmes and represents the institutions´ interests towards politics, economy and [...]

Chile
The CNED is a public and autonomous institution with the mission of accreditation, control, evaluation and quality assurance of the private higher education sector (strongly represented in Chile). The homepage leads to full texts about the accreditation process, its legal basis (regulations), implementation, methods, instruments (handbooks) and to a guide for students and [...]

Ireland
HETAC is the qualifications awarding body for third-level educational and training institutions outside the university sector. It is the legal successor to the National Council for Educational Awards (NCEA). On the website information can be obtained about the setting of standards for higher education and training awards, the validation of higher education and training [...]