The Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance and Career Development

Operational meeting of the Head of the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science – L.N.Glebova15.12.09

Operational meeting of the Head of the Federal Service for Supervision in Education and Science – L.N.Glebova and rectors of universities of Privolzhya region took place in Nizhniy Novgorod State University named after Lobachevskiy. Key point of the discussion was the problem of accreditation of higher educational institutions in the Russian Federation. Among participants were representatives of the AKKORK agency: Chairman of the Accreditation Board, PhD, Professor Rubin Y.B. and CEO of the Agency, PhD Belokopytov A.V. Y.B. Rubin addressed the meeting on the rise of competitiveness of educational institutions and the improvement of education quality in Russia with the growth of specialized institutions of independent assessment of the quality. Experience of the AKKORK agency aroused great interest of the public during the experiment on the use of expert reviews by members of the accreditation Board in decision-making on the state of university accreditation