National Accreditation Agencies

THEQC authorises national accreditation agencies according to the criteria listed below:

1. Agencies should have predefined and published mission and objectives, should maintain their activities in line with these objectives, ensure a high level of stakeholder participation in their governance and practices, and prove that their practices and criteria for output-oriented program accreditation are reliable and in compliance with national and international standards (particularly with ESG) and that their decisions are accurate.

2. The organizational and financial structure of the agency should be in line with its legislation and area of activity as well as being stable and sustainable.

3. The agency should act independently in its organizational structure, operational processes and formal outcomes.

4. The agency should periodically publish general review reports that analyze the outcomes of its program accreditation activities.

5. The agency should have adequate and appropriate resources, in terms of both human resources and physical infrastructure, in order to carry out its program accreditation activities.

6. The agency should have appropriate internal quality assurance processes in order to monitor, assess and ensure the outcomes of its activities and conduct continuous improvement works.

7. The agency should take part in external evaluation processes for the evaluation of its activities’ compliance with national and international standards (particularly ESG) and continuous improvement of its quality assurance system.