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2014

FEBRUARY



Oxana Matveeva, the Deputy Head
of the Accreditation Office, NCPA participated in the external review
of the National Evaluation and Accreditation Agency
(Sofia, Bulgaria)

JANUARY



Working group on Academic Excellence coordinated by ENQA. Participant from NCPA O. Matveeva



Memorandum of Cooperation
was signed between the National Center for Professional Education Quality Assurance - ANQA (Armenia) and the National Centre for Public Accreditation


A cooperation Agreement was signed between the Russian Student Union and the National Centre for Public Accreditation

National Centre for Public Accreditation is a partner in the Tempus IV “Achieving and checking the alignment between academic programmes and qualification framework”

NOVEMBER

Galina Motova, the Deputy Head of NCPA, participated in the external review of the Polish Accreditation Committee (Warsaw, Poland)


VIII International Forum of the Guild of Experts “Implementation of the European Standards and Guidelines into the education quality assurance systems” was held in Moscow, Russia. Several international accreditation agencies took part in the work of the Forum

The National Centre for Public Accreditation and Accreditation Commission Czech Republic signed an Agreement on Cooperation in the field of education quality evaluation

The representatives of three public accreditation agencies: the Association for Engineering Education of Russia (AEER), the Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance and Career Development (AKKORK) and the National Centre for Public Accreditation (NCPA) signed an Agreement establishing the association "National Public Register of Accrediting Organizations in Education"

OCTOBER

Vladimir Navodnov, Director of NCPA and Galina Motova, Deputy Director of NCPA took part in the work of the ENQA General Assembly 2013 which was held in Vilnius, Lithuania

Elena Savinykh, National Centre for Public Accreditation, took part in the accreditation of the university "George Baritiu" in Brasov, Romania in the framework of her research visit to the Romanian accreditation agency ARACIS

Galina Motova, Deputy Director of the NCPA, spoke at the Parliamentary Hearings on the issues of public accreditation in the State Duma. Deputies of the State Duma, the Federation Council, the Public Chamber, representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation as well as more than 100 people from academic and professional society and accreditation agencies took part in the hearings



NCPA conducted the external review of the cluster of the further professional programmes “Civil Engineering and Management (in Forestry)” delivered by the Russian Institute of Continuous Education in Forestry (Pushkino, Russia)

SEPTEMBER

A regular meeting of the National Accreditation Board was held in order to make an independent decision on the quality of the set of educational programmes of Russian universities



NCPA conducted the external review of the educational programmes “Shipbuilding”, “Ship Power Plants”, “Shipbuilding, Ocean Engineering and System Engineering of the Objects of Marine Infrastructure”, delivered by the Branch of the Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov in Severodvinsk (Severodvinsk, Russia)

JUNE

NCPA conducted the external review of the educational programmes “Fundamental Informatics and Information Technologies”, “Applied Mathematics and Informatics”, “Economics”, “State and Municipal Management”, “Management”, “Ecology and Environmental Management” and “Geography” delivered by Dagestan State University (Makhachkala, Russia)



NCPA conducted the external review of the educational programme in Medical Care delivered by the Bashkir State University (Ufa, Russia)


NCPA conducted the external review of the educational programmes in “Physical and Mathematical Sciences”, “Energy, Power Engineering and Electric Engineering”, “Transport” and “Chemical and Bioengineering” delivered by the North (Arctic) Federal Unviersity (Arkhangelsk, Russia)


The annual workshop and the General Assembly of the Central and Eastern European Network of Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (CEENQA) were in Bucharest, Romania




A cooperation agreement between the National Centre for Public Accreditation and the Free Economic Society of Russia was signed


MAY

Public hearings on the topic “Professional and public accreditation of engineering educational programs” were held in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. NCPA was represented by Galina Motova, Deputy Director

A Joint seminar on quality assurance of Russian higher education, organized by the Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council (FINHEEC), was held in Saint-Petersburg, Russia



NCPA conducted the external review of the educational programmesin “Economics” delivered by the Volga State University of Technology (Yoshkar-Ola, Russia)


The Forum on University Rankings hosted by International Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence (IREG) with the participation of Galina Motova, Deputy Director of NCPA, was held in Warsaw, Poland




NCPA conducted the external review of the educational programmes in “Economics” delivered by the University of Management “TISBI” (Kazan, Russia)


APRIL

The Biennial international conference “Managing Diversity: Sustainable quality assurance processes” hosted by INQAAHE and the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT) was held in Taipei, Taiwan



The conference
of Asia-Pacific Quality Network (APQN) hosted by Taiwan Assessment and Evaluation Association (TWAEA) was held in Taipei, Taiwan


NCPA’s Director Vladimir Navodnov was awarded the honorary award of the Asia-Pacific Quality Network (APQN) for outstanding achievements in the field of quality assurance and personal contribution in promoting to quality and excellence in higher education at both national and international levels



The third ENQA Members forum
hosted by the Accreditation Commission of Czech Republic took place in Prague, Czech Republic



The International scientific and practical conference “Lessons of multidimensional rankings of Russian HEIs: from approbation to practice“ with the participation of the National Foundation of Personnel Training, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and the National Centre For Public Accreditation was held

MARCH

NCPA conducted the external review of the educational programmes in “Philological Education”, “Psychological and Pedagogical Education”, “Special (Defectological) Education” and “Professional Education” delivered by the Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University(Nizhny Novgorod,Russia)


A regular meeting of the National Accreditation Board was held in order to make an independent decision on the quality of a number of educational programmes of Russian universities


The Russian News & Information Agency RIA Novosti hosted the press conference on admission of prospective students and the project of public accreditation of Russian HEIs. Director of NCPA Vladimir Navodnov presented the Reference Book “The Best Educational Programmes of Innovative Russia”

FEBRUARY

NCPA conducted the external review of the educational programmes in “Medical Care”, “Applied Mathematics and Informatics” and “Information Technologies” delivered by the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk (Yakutsk, Russia)


JANUARY

Deputy Head of Accreditation Office Oxana Matveeva took part in the ENQA seminar on undergoing the second round of ENQA external reviews by quality assurance agencies (Paris, France)
2013
2012

DECEMBER



NCPA conducted the external review of the educational programmes “Medical Care” delivered by the Kazan State Medical University of Ministry of Public Health of the Russian Federation (Kazan, Russia)


The first meeting of the National Accreditation Board on accreditation of the educational programmes of two federal universities was held





NCPA conducted the external review of the educational programmes in Philology delivered by the Pushkin State Russian Language Institute (Moscow, Russia)




NCPA conducted the external review of the educational programmes “Theory and Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages and Cultures”, “Foreign Philology” and “Linguistics” delivered by the Dagestan State University (Makhachkala, Dagestan)

NOVEMBER

NCPA conducted the external review of the educational programmes “Architecture and Construction”, “Forest Resources Reproduction and Processing” delivered by The Northern (Arctic) Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov (NArFU) (Arkhangelsk, Russia)

The 7th annual research and practice conference of the Guild of Experts “Implementation of the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance Systems in Russia” was held in Moscow, Russia. Achim Hopbah, President of ENQA, took part in the conference

OCTOBER

NCPA conducted the external review of the educational programmes in “ICT and communication systems”, “Linguistics”, “Education in Psychology and Pedagogics”, “Law”, “Technology of Transport Processes” delivered by Immanuel Kant Baltic federal university (Kaliningrad, Russia)


Joint accreditation agreement between NCPA and ACQUIN was signed at the seminar with Accreditation, Certification and Quality Assurance Institute (ACQUIN)


FEBRUARY

NCPA conducted the external review of the educational programme in “Choral Conducting” delivered by Gnesins Academy of Music. The Review Panel consisted both of foreign and national experts (Moscow, Russia)



NCPA conducted the external review of the educational programmes “Academic Choir Conducting” and “Vocal Art” delivered by Victor Popov Academy of Choral Arts in Moscow. The Review Panel consisted both of foreign and national experts (Moscow, Russia)

JANUARY

The National Centre for Public Accreditation (NCPA) was granted the Full Member status in the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE)

DECEMBER

A Cooperation Agreement was signed between the National Centre for Public Accreditation (NCPA), Russia and the Agency for Science and Higher Education (ASHE), Republic of Croatia


NOVEMBER

The Results of the second stage of the project “The Best Educational Programmes of Innovative Russia” were presented at the press-conference “Methods and outcomes of quality assessment of educational programmes in higher professional education” which was held by the Russian News & Information Agency RIA Novosti. Victor Bolotov, Vice-president and an Academician of the Russian Academy of Education, Vladimir Navodnov, Director of the National Centre for Public Accreditation, PhD, Professor, Galina Motova, Deputy Director of the National Centre for Public Accreditation, Editor-in-chief of the journal “Accreditation in Education”, PhD, Professor, Artyom Khromov, Chairman of the All-Russian public organization “The Russian Union of Students”, took part in the conference

Dr. Iring Wasser, CEENQA President, Managing Director of ASIIN (Germany), Vice President of ENAEE, Chairman of the “EUR-ACE”- label committee of ENAEE was invited to take part in the Sixth Annual Conference of Experts in Higher Education, organized by NCPA. Representatives of CEENQA member agencies from Central and Eastern Europe and colleagues from the Republic of Kazakhstan took an active part in the event




A Cooperation Agreement was signed between the National Centre for Public Accreditation (NCPA), Russia and the Agency for Development of Higher Education and Quality Assurance (HEA B&H), Bosnia and Herzegovina



SEPTEMBER

The Reference Book “The Best Educational Programmes of Innovative Russia” was published for the first time. 2034 of 32544 educational programmes of Russian HEIs were included into this edition


JUNE

NCPA conducted the first external review of three educational programmes delivered by the Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics in accordance with the ESG (Moscow, Russia)


MAY

Prof. Vladimir Navodnov, Director of the National Centre for Public Accreditation, PhD and Dr. Iring Wasser, CEENQA President, Managing Director of ASIIN signed CEENQA constitutional documents (Split, Croatia)
2011
2010

OCTOBER

New electronic newsletter "Vestnik Accreditacii" covers all important issues in the sphere of accreditation: recently released documents, publications, conferences and events held in Russia and abroad


At the invitation of NCPA Peter Williams, former ENQA President, took part in the fifth nationwide conference of the Russian Guild of Experts in the sphere of professional education

SEPTEMBER

The National Centre for Public Accreditation (NCPA) was granted the Associate Status in the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) at the Seventh ENQA General Assembly meeting (Helsinki, Finland)

JUNE


Cooperation Agreement was signed between the National Centre for Public Accreditation (NCPA), Russia and the Agence d’evaluation de la recherche et de l’enseignement superieur (AERES), France




The Russian-Kazakh group participated in the training session “Internal and external quality assurance for institutional and programme accreditation in higher professional education”, which was hosted by the Agence d’evaluation de la recherche et de l’enseignement superieur (AERES) (Paris, France)

The first nationwide research and practice conference “Accreditation in the sphere of higher professional education in Russia: the present state and prospects” was held online and was devoted to the 15th anniversary of the Accreditation System in Russia

MAY

The National Centre for Public Accreditation became a full member of the Central and Eastern European Networking Association
(CEE Network)(Sofia, Bulgaria)



FEBRUARY

The project “The Best Educational Programmes of Innovative Russia” was launched. The purpose of the project is to identify higher education programmes distinguished by the exemplary level of the quality of education

DECEMBER

The National Centre for Public Accreditation (NCPA) was established. NCPA’s mission in the Russian system of quality assurance is to form and promote quality culture in higher education through identification, evaluation, and accreditation of the best educational programs in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation and the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG-ENQA). The National Centre for Public Accreditation was created by the separation from the National Accreditation Agency of the Russian Federation (NAA)

NOVEMBER

Dr. Hans Ulrich Schmidt, Managing Director of FIBAA (Foundation for international business administration accreditation), took part in the Forth nationwide conference of experts in the field of professional education



SEPTEMBER

The National Accreditation Agency of the Russian Federation (NAA) was granted Full Member Status in the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA)

MARCH

Cooperation Agreement was signed between the National Accreditation Agency of the Russian Federation (NAA) and the National Accreditation Centre of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan (NAC)
2009
2008

NOVEMBER

The manual “Accreditation of higher education institutions in Russia” was published (V. Navodnov, E. Gevorkyan, G. Motova, M. Petropavlovskiy, – Yoshkar-Ola, 2008. – 166 p.). It outlines the evaluation procedures of a HEI and describes indicators, methods and criteria of state accreditation as well as methods used to define the type and form of a HEI on the basis of a systemic approach


The National Accreditation Agency of the Russian Federation (Vladimir Navodnov, Director) underwent the external review held by the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA)


SEPTEMBER

The manual “Examination of the quality of education: European approach” was published (G. Motova, V. Navodnov - Yoshkar-Ola, 2008. – 100 p.) It describes the main types of education quality assurance systems, requirements for the expert activities in the sphere of higher education as well as the analysis of Russian and European experience in conducting reviews

JUNE

The Russian translation of “Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area” (Yoshkar-Ola: Accreditation in education, 2008. – 58p.) was published. It is available on www.enqa.eu and www.аккредитация.рф


MAY


The first Internet-Olympiads were held. Prof. Vladimir Navodnov, PhD, was the Project Manager


APRIL

Bruno Curvale (France), Vice President of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA), took part in the Third nationwide conference of the Russian Guild of Experts in the sphere of professional education (Moscow, Russia)

NOVEMBER

Hillar Bauman, Director of the Estonian Higher Education Quality Agency (EKKA), took part in the Second nationwide conference of the Russian Guild of Experts in the sphere of professional education
2007
2006

NOVEMBER

The first nationwide conference of the Russian Guild of Experts in the sphere of professional education “Accreditation in the sphere of higher professional education in Russia: current status and the prospects” was held

JUNE

The Russian Guild of Experts in the sphere of higher professional education was established due to the necessity of implementation of the Bologna Declaration, particularly, the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area. The mission of the Guild is to develop and improve the system of public and state accreditation of Professional Education Institutions in order to assure the quality of professional education in Russia based on cooperation and partnership of all the stakeholders. Prof. Peter Litvitsky, PhD, corresponding member of RAMS, was elected the first president



The first constituent conference of the Russian Guild of Experts in the sphere of higher professional education was held at the initiative of the National Accreditation Agency of the Russian Federation


NOVEMBER

The first training seminar for education quality assessment experts was held



Publication of the scientific edition “Foreign Accreditation Models” (G. Motova, V. Navodnov – 2nd edition: revised and expanded. – Moscow - Yoshkar-Ola: central state archives, 2005. – 112 p.) summarizing the outcomes of studies of practical experience of national bodies carrying out education quality assessment abroad

MAY

Project “Federal Internet-Exam in the Sphere of Professional Education” was launched. Prof. Vladimir Navodnov, PhD, was the Project Manager. The Federal Internet-Exam in the Sphere of Professional Education is carried out both online and offline to test students in a set of study programmes or one study programme in all HEIs of the Russian Federation




First issue of the journal “Accreditation in education” was published (prof. Galina Motova, PhD, Editor in Chief)





APRIL

The 10th anniversary of the first Russian Accreditation Agency; the Director is professor Vladimir Navodnov

2005
2004

DECEMBER

Defense of the doctoral thesis by Galina Motova at the Moscow State Teachers Training University (Vladimir Navodnov – research adviser) on the topic “Conceptual basis of the accreditation of educational systems”


OCTOBER

Establishment of the Eurasian Quality Assurance Network (EAQAN). Vladimir Navodnov was elected Secretary General


SEPTEMBER

The international conference “Promotion of European cooperation in Quality Assurance” was held in St. Petersburg, Russia



JULY

The heads of the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science V. Bolotov and E. Gevorkyan participated in the seminar held in Yoshkar-Ola, Russia

APRIL

Galina Motova participated in the accreditation of the MBA programme, delivered by the University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan (Triesdorf, Germany)

OCTOBER

The International research and practice conference (Yoshkar-Ola, Russia) on the issues of developing and integrating the systems of higher professional education quality assessment in the CIS and Baltic countries. A. Pyzhikov, Vice-Minister of Education, and E. Gevorkyan, Head of the Department of Licensure, Accreditation and Certification of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, as well as representatives of accreditation bodies of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia and Estonia, attended the conference
2003
2002

NOVEMBER

The Working meeting of E. Gevorkyan, Head of the Department of Licensing, Accreditation and Certification and V. Navodnov, Director of the National Accreditation Agency, with the heads of the Ministry of Education of Estonia and the Estonian Accreditation Centre in Estonia, Tallinn was held

JULY

Tokuda Masanori, Professor of the National Institution for Academic Degrees (Japan) and Shinichi Masudzaki, Representative of the Japanese Centre in Nizhny Novgorod visited the National Accreditation Agency of the Russian Federation (Yoshkar-Ola, Russia)

OCTOBER

First edition of the manual “Integrated assessment of higher education institutions” was published (V. Navodnov, E. Gevorkyan, G. Motova, M. Petropavlovskiy – Moscow - Yoshkar-Ola: Scientific and Information Centre of State Accreditation, 2001. – 192p.)



APRIL

Creation of the website “All Russian HEIs” www.abitur.nica.ru (designer – A. Vedernikov)

FEBRUARY

Advanced training courses for the management of HEIs “Management in education. State regulation” at the National Accreditation Agency of the Russian Federation (Yoshkar-Ola, Russia)


Publication of the first Register of the accredited HEIs of the Russian Federation
2001
2000

NOVEMBER

The National Accreditation Agency of the Russian Federation (NAA) joined the Network of Central and Eastern European Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (CEE Network)(Budapest, Hungary)

OCTOBER

Publication of the first analytical report “State accreditation of Higher, Secondary and Further Education Institutions in 1999”





MARCH

A working meeting within the project CROSS (Russia – the Netherlands) was held

OCTOBER

A license for publishing activities was obtained. The monograph “Developing the system of state accreditation” was published (V. Navodnov, G. Motova,
M. Petropavlovskiy)





SEPTEMBER

The mathematical model of classification of HEIs into certain types based on the methods of discriminatory analysis was included into the procedure of state accreditation (developer –
M. Petropavlovskiy)



JUNE

The representatives of NAA participated in the international conference which was held in Edinburgh within the framework of the project TACIS



A license for carrying out seminars on education quality assessment and accreditation was granted to NAA by the Ministry of Education of the Russian Education (№ 25-191, 23.06.1999)




V. Filippov, Minister of education of the Russian Education, visited the National Accreditation Agency of the Russian Federation
1999
1998

NOVEMBER

A seminar within the project TACIS with the participation of Ton Vroeijenstijn, Secretary of INQAAHE was held in Yoshkar-Ola, Russia


JULY

A seminar on accreditation issues with the participation of V. Bolotov, Deputy Minister of general and professional education of the Russian Federation was held



JUNE

The monograph “Systems of accreditation abroad” was published (G. Motova, V. Navodnov, V. Kuklin, B. Saveliev / Foreword by V. Zernova— Moscow, 1998. — 151 p.)

JUNE

First version of the website www.nica.ru was created and placed on the Internet




APRIL, 22

First meeting of the Accreditation Board of the Ministry of Education of Russia. The cases of 27 HEIs prepared by the Centre of Accreditation were considered
1997
1996

NOVEMBER

The structure of the presentation of a HEI for state accreditation was developed



SEPTEMBER

The first data collection module was sent for HEIs (developed by V. Egoshin, V. Gurianov)




JULY

Russia (the National Accreditation Agency) joined the International Network of Accrediting Agencies INQAAHE

APRIL

Scientific and Information Centre of State Accreditation was created (the Order of State Committee on Higher Education
No 570 dated 18.04.1995)

V. Navodnov became the appointed Director of the National Accreditation Agency (the Order of the State Committee on Higher Education No 602 dated 24.04.1995)

FEBRUARY

The textbooks stamped Russian Federation State Committee on Higher Education on the technology of mass educational measurements were published. Many of the ideas later underpinned the technology of Federal Internet-Exam in the Sphere of Professional Education

♦Technology of testing and outcome analysis KAMERTON (V. Kuklin, V. Navodnov, M. Petropavlovskiy, Yoshkar-Ola: MarSTU, 1995. – 86 p.)

TestGen — system of testing materials development. (V. Navodnov, V. Kuklin, A. Maslennikov, A. Eltsin, Yoshkar-Ola: MarSTU, 1995. – 84 p.)


A seminar “Information technologies of the accreditation of educational institutions” involving Deputy Chairman of Russian Federation Committee on Higher Education V. Shadrikov, Deputy Minister of Education of the Russian Federation N. Lazutova and Head of the Department of Licensing, Accreditation and Nostrification V. Meshalkin was conducted

The presentation of the software package “Monitoring of Accredited HEIs of Russia” and the Kamerton technology was held

The first Russian Centre of Accreditation (Scientific and Information Centre of State Accreditation, V. Navodnov, Director) was created by the decision of Deputy Chairman of the Russian Federation State Committee on Higher Education V. Shadrikov and Rector of MarSTU
G. Oshchepkov

JANUARY

V. Navodnov, V. Kuklin and G. Motova participated in the publication of the monograph: “Institutions of Higher and Secondary Vocational Education in the Russian Federation. Accreditation – Self-evaluation-Rating” (V. Meshalkin - M.: PFUR, 1995. — 136 p.)
1995
1994

JUNE

A seminar on accreditation with the participation of the Head of the Department of Licensing, Accreditation and Nostrification V. Meshalkin was conducted (Russia)