National Entity for Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education (NEAQA)

A Guide to Accredited Higher Education Institutions and Study Programs in the Republic of Serbia

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This electronic publication contains information on accredited higher education institutions and study programs concluding with the last session of the Commission for Accreditation and Quality Assurance (CAQA), held on November 7th, 2019. The publication covers the results of accreditation in the period 2007-2019.
The accreditation period is 7 years.

Recent news

- CEENQA General Assembly in Astana (2023)
  July 20, 2023Secretary-General Janko Balšić, LL.M. represented NEAQA at the annual General Assembly and Workshop of CEENQA (Central and Eastern European Network of Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education) on June 2-3, 2023, in Astana, Kazakhstan. The event’s host was IAAR (Independent Agency for Accreditation and Rating). The event was attended by the Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Sayasat Nurbek, who, in his speech, noted that the development of the education system is aimed at ensuring the quality of educational services based on the widespread use of international experience and world standards, emphasising the internationalisation of higher education. The People and Culture in QA Agencies Workshopdealt with various topics related to HR management and staff development, ranging from general questions on the strategic level to specific good practices for supporting staff and creating a productive and welcoming working environment in QA agencies. During the Workshop, the former president of INQAAHE, the deputy director of EQAR and two members of the CEENQA community reflected on the core values of higher education in connection with ESG perspectives, HR and processes for internal QA. A fruitful discussion followed, during which the consequences of digitisation on HR and the possibilities of approaching the QA agency in this sense were discussed. At the General Assembly, CEENQA members decided on the election of Board members, as well as on the membership of several agencies: STAR, Turkey (full member), IKCA, Kazakhstan (full member) and HEC, Syria (observer). As a full member of CEENQA, NEAQA has voting rights, so our Secretary-General actively participated in the work of the General Assembly, voting on agenda items on behalf of the Director of NEAQA. While in Astana, the NEAQA representative met with delegates from various European agencies, including Germany, Austria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkey, and Ukraine, as well as from international associations such as ENQA, EQAR, INQAAHE, and APQN, sharing valuable experiences related to accreditation and higher education....
- ENQA’s Progress Visit
  May 29, 2023On May 22, 2023, NEAQA received a progress visit from the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA). During the one-day visit, NEAQA organized seven meetings which were attended by two ENQA experts, representatives of NEAQA (Director, members of the Management Board, Commission for Accreditation and Quality Assurance, Secretariat and Sector for Accreditation and External Quality Assurance), Ministry of Education of the Republic of Serbia, Rectorate of the University of Belgrade, the Academy of Applied Studies Belgrade and NEAQA’s peer-review experts. On April 28, 2020, the ENQA Board made a Decision on confirming NEAQA’s affiliate status in this organization, based on the report of the ENQA Experts Panel (February 20, 2020), according to the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area – ESG (2015), after an external evaluation of NEAQA (from April to December 2019). The ENQA Board then concluded that the overall level of compliance with the ESG was insufficient to renew NEAQA’s full membership in this association. NEAQA was advised to carefully follow up and implement the Panel’s recommendations before re-applying for ENQA membership in the future and to avail of the voluntary progress visit as part of the Follow-Up procedure which, according to the Guidelines for ENKA Agency Reviews (2016), consists of submitting the Follow-Up Report and organizing the Progress Visit. The purpose of the Progress Visit is not to check the agency’s compliance with ESG standards but rather to generate a stronger enhancement-oriented dialogue. In 2022, NEAQA recognized the Follow-Up procedure as significant for its further development on the way to becoming a full member of ENQA. Thus, NEAQA submitted a Follow-Up Report to ENQA (January 2023), addressing the ENQA’s recommendations and highlighting developments and changes and processes relevant in view of its ESG compliance. Afterwards, ENQA Secretariat scheduled the visit of experts for May 22, 2023. All attendees pointed out all advantages and disadvantages of our higher education QA system through a constructive dialogue with experts and made proposals for its further development. It was highlighted that NEAQA made great progress, especially in the context of the implementation of the amendments to the Law on Higher Education from 2021, which led to the new organizational structure of NEAQA, as well as the guarantees of NEAQA’s independence (organizational, operational and the independence of formal outcomes). NEAQA was advised to (together with key stakeholders), take an active role in defining the strategic goals of the higher education system, oriented not only to quality assurance but to quality enhancement and establishing a better quality culture of the system. In the coming period, NEAQA will devote itself to further fulfilling ENQA’s recommendations, especially through the SEQA-ESG2 project, to submit a request for full membership in this organization....

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