New Requirements for Accreditation Agencies on Education Quality Assurance

Abstract

New amendments to the US law on higher education are considered, in particular, regulation of cooperation between the Department of Education and accreditation agencies. The article also examines grounds of different approaches (Russian and American) to the development of the national education quality assurance system as well as specific features of the recognition procedure of independent accreditation agencies by the government. The author suggests specific principles for the development of national «architecture» of HEIs accreditation based on the analysis of the American and European models of «accreditors’ accreditation». They may be relevant for establishing a new regulation for evaluating the quality of education during the “regulatory guillotine”.

Keywords

• accreditation
• accreditation of educational institutions and educational programmes
• accreditation agencies
• accreditors’ accreditation
• education quality assurance
• quality review
• “regulatory guillotine”
• european standards and guidelines for quality assurance
• european quality register for higher education