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)