The National Agency for Quality Assurance in Education has been admitted as a full member of the International Quality Assurance Group (CIQG), established under the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) in the United States.

Membership marks an important step in the Agency’s integration into the international quality assurance community and will contribute to expanding institutional cooperation with leading international quality assurance and accreditation organizations.

The Council for Higher Education Accreditation brings together nearly 3,000 degree-granting colleges and universities, as well as more than 60 institutional and programmatic accreditation organizations.

CHEA is one of the key national bodies in the United States in the fields of higher education accreditation, academic quality, and recognition of accrediting organizations.

This year, the National Agency for Quality Assurance in Education has also joined a number of major international and regional networks in the field of higher education quality assurance, including:

• INQAAHE — a global network bringing together more than 300 quality assurance and accreditation organizations;
• APQN — the Asia-Pacific regional network representing more than 200 organizations from over 45 countries and territories;
• CEENQA — a Central and Eastern European network comprising 46 organizations from 28 countries;
• ENQA — cooperation has also been established with the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education.