Director General of AKKORK joined the Evaluation, Certification and Accreditation Commission of Spanish Agency for Quality Assurance ACPUA23.04.20
Erika Soboleva, Director General of AKKORK, has been voted as an international vocal into the Evaluation, Certification and Accreditation Commission (CECA) of Aragon Agency for Quality Assurance and Strategic Foresight in Higher Education (ACPUA).Created in 2005 the ACPUA is an autonomous body (public law entity) attached to the Department of Science, Higher Education and Knowledge Society of the Government of Aragon. It is a member of ENQA (European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education) and it is listed on EQAR (European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education). It also belongs to INQAAHE (International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education) and ECA (European Consortium for Accreditation).
Next to Director General of Russian Quality Agency, the CECA included Antonio Serrano González (Director of the ACPUA and also Commission President), four academic vocals from leading region universities (Patricia Espejo Megías, University of Castilla-La Mancha, María Ángeles Franco Sierra, University of Zaragoza, María Leonor González Menorca, University of La Rioja, Francisco Gracia Navarro, University of Cordoba), a student vocal from University of Zaragoza and also two external stakeholders (Luis A. Polo Rubio, expert in employability of the Spanish Red Cross, and Ana Isabel Ortega Pardos, Quality Assurance Coordinator).
The Commission of Evaluation, Certification and Accreditation is ACPUA's technical commission for the evaluation, certification and accreditation functions. The reshaped CECA has already went into the development and improvement of assessment methodological foundations and technical principles. At the first meeting the сommission members discussed the issues regarding the certification procedure of practicing doctors for the position of professor in an educational organization.
The agenda of the next commission meeting is focused on overcoming the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Erika Soboleva said: «It is a very interesting experience for me as a manager in the field of education quality assessment. Membership in the ACPUA’s Supreme governing bodies provides an opportunity not only to see the educational system in Spain from inside, but also to share the experience of AKKORK. It is the knowledge sharing that will help quality assurance agencies to cope with the pandemic effects».
