Higher Education Accreditation Agency of Republika Srpska has participated on the CEENQA Workshop and the General Assembly session held from 13th to 14th May, 2016 in Krakow, Poland. The topic of the workshop held on 13th May, 2016 was Quality Assurance in Transnational Education and the participants discussed the cross border cooperation between higher education institutions, practices and challenges that accreditation agencies face in terms of accrediting institutions that work outside the national higher education area and their study programs.
The session of the CEENQA General Assembly was held on the second day of the event and it was the opportunity for all member agencies to report on their activities within the previous year. Higher Education Accreditation Agency of Republika Srpska reported on applying for the full membership in ENQA and EQAR, followed by contract signing with ENQA, changes in internal Agency's procedures that resulted in analyses of completed accreditation processes, new quality assurance instruments that higher education institutions of Republika Srpska get encouraged to implement with the purpose of improving their internal quality assurance systems, course of new external evaluation and accreditation processes as well as on accreditation of study programs. By its active participation in the work of this network, our Agency has already confirmed its status and ensured recognition in the European higher education area.
One of the topics that agencies have discussed was also the forthcoming staff exchange with the purpose of getting familiarised with other agencies' practices.
The whole event was organised by Polish Accreditation Committee and University Accreditation Committee and it has been held in historically significant ambient of Collegium Maius, Jagiellonian University, Krakow.
This is the fourth year of Agency's full membership in this network.