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  • 19 May 2011
    EQAR Site Visit - Register now lists 27 agencies
    A seven-member evaluation panel conducted a site visit to Brussels from 12 to 14 May, in the context of the External Evaluation of EQAR. [...] At its meeting in Brussels on 13 and 14 May, the Register Committee approved the applications of the following three agencies: AERES (France),  EVA (Denmark) and QANU (the Netherlands). [...]
  • 18 November 2010:
    24 agencies listed on the Register
    As of today, 24 quality assurance agencies, active in 23 European countries, feature on the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR). Five new agencies have been added after their applications were approved by the Register Committee on 13 November: ACSUCYL (Spain),  ACSUG (Spain),  CTI (France), FINHEEC (Finland) and The Accreditation Institution (Denmark). [...]
  • 25 May 2010
    2 new quality assurance agencies admitted to EQAR
    The first application round of 2010 resulted in the acceptance of two quality assurance agencies on the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education. The decision was taken by the Register Committee at its meeting in Dublin on 15 May.
    The Register Committee concluded that AQAS and evalag successfully evidenced their substantial compliance with the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance (ESG) through an independent external review. With these two admissions EQAR now lists nineteen agencies that are active in the European Higher Education Area. [...]
  • 8 October 2009:
    17 quality assurance agencies feature on EQAR
    Eight quality agencies have been admitted to EQAR at the Register Committee's last meeting on 30 September 2009. Together with the nine agencies that have already been listed on EQAR, the Register now features 17 quality assurance agencies that are active in the European Higher Education Area. [...]
  • 15 April 2009:
    EQAR now lists nine quality assurance agencies
    As from today, nine quality assurance agencies, active in twelve European countries, feature on the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR). Three agencies have already been listed on the Register since December 2008. Six agencies have now been added, following approval of their applications by the Register Committee on 4/5 April 2009. [...]
  • 5 December 2008:
    First agencies included on the European Quality Assurance Register
    The first three quality assurance agencies have been included on the new European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR) since Friday, 5 December 2008. EQAR’s Register Committee considered the first applications for inclusion on EQAR at its meeting on 22/23 November 2008 at Corvinus University of Budapest. [...]
  • 11 August 2008:
    European Quality Assurance Register now open for applications [PDF]
    Quality assurance agencies for higher education can now officially apply to join the new European Quality Assurance Register (EQAR) which was
    founded in March this year. [...]
  • 4 March 2008:
    Europe launches Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education [PDF]
    The European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR) will be officially launched in Brussels today in a move designed to improve the quality of European higher education and to promote greater student mobility. The new register is a landmark for European cooperation in quality assurance of higher education in the context of the Bologna Process reforms. [...]