Belarus

• Membership in EQAR
  Belarus is not a Governmental Member of EQAR.

  Read more: all Governmental Members of EQAR

• General information on higher education

  External quality assurance of higher education institutions in Belarus is handled by the Education Quality Assurance Department under the Ministry of Education. 
  

• National external quality assurance requirements

  Higher education institutions have to go through a state licensing (the right to offer educational activities at a certain level) and a state accreditation (checking the compliance with quality requirements and standards of the institution and programmes) once in 5 year.

  The Education Quality Assurance Department issues an opinion regarding licensing and accreditation, which is then approved by the Board of the Ministry of Education (see bellow the Regulation on the procedure for state accreditation of educational institutions of the Republic of Belarus, 2011).
• Cross-border quality assurance

  In Belarus higher education institutions may not choose among EQAR-registered agencies.

  Read more: countries where higher education institutions may choose a suitable EQAR-registered agency

• European Approach for Quality Assurance of Joint Programmes

  In Belarus the European Approach is not available to higher education institutions.

  Read more: countries where the European Approach is available to higher education institutions

• Further information

  • Ministry responsible for higher education

  • Regulations on the procedure of state accreditation (2011)

  • ENIC NARIC

  • Belarus - European Higher Education Area

Registered agencies operating in Belarus