Institute of Theology of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church

EELK Usuteaduse Instituut

Basic information

National External Quality Assurance Requirements

  • Estonia
    • Quality assessment of study programme groups
      Obligatory periodic assessment (every seven years) of all the study programme groups in which a higher education institution has been granted the right to conduct studies.
    • Institutional accreditation
      Once in every seven years higher education institutions must undergo institutional accreditation.
    • Initial assessment of study programme groups
      An educational institution is granted the right to conduct studies by the Government of the Republic of Estonia in a specific study programme group and in a specific academic cycle (professional higher education, bachelor degree studies, master degree studies, doctoral studies). This allows the HEI to issue state-recognised diplomas under all programmes contained in the corresponding study programme group. Before such right is granted, the study programme group must undergo initial assessment, which the Ministry of Education commissions from EKKA.
    • Further information on external quality assurance in Estonia

External Quality Assurance Reports and Decisions

Filter reports

Agency
Status
Activity
Decision
Report valid

Institutional level

Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Institutional accreditation

Programme level

Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Theology study programme group, first cycle
  • Qualification
  • Level
    first cycle
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Theology study programme group, second cycle
  • Qualification
  • Level
    second cycle

Verifiable Credentials

A Verifiable Credential (VC) is a digitally-signed and thus tamper-evident document containing information on a subject (e.g. personal information, entitlements of an individual, degrees held by an individual or accreditation of a higher education institution). Quality assurance results recorded in DEQAR can be downloaded as W3C-compatible Verifiable Credentials.

Currently, two types of credentials can be issued:

EBSI Verifiable Accreditations (VA) can be used by a higher education institution in the context of the EBSI Early Adopters programme.

  • The VA allows the institution to prove its external quality assurance on the Trusted Issuer Registry (TIR). EBSI VAs are only issued for external quality assurance results with an official status in a national system (“part of obligatory EQA system”).
  • At present, the higher education institution’s EBSI DID needs to be communicated to EQAR and recorded in DEQAR manually at the moment. If you are a higher education institution participating in EBSI, please contact us to register your DID.
  • EBSI VAs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:ebsi:zk4bhCepWSYp9RhZkRPiwUL.

DEQAR Format Verifiable Credentials primarily serve as a proof of concept and public demonstrator currently.

  • DEQAR Format VCs are based on the plain W3C Recommendation and our own data model. While they closely follow the EBSI Schema, no EBSI-specific or EU-specific elements or data types are used.
  • The higher education institution is identified by its DEQAR URI in this case.
  • DEQAR Format VCs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:web:data.deqar.eu.

Please note: this is an experimental feature.