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ARACIS – Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education

ARACIS – Agentia Româna de Asigurare a Calitatii în Invatamântul Superior

Website: www.aracis.ro
Admission valid until: 2014-03-31 (listed since 2009-10-07)
Based in*: Romania

Contact details

Address: Spiru Haret 1, Bucharest - Official address
Schitu Magureanu 1, Bucharest - Mailing address
Contact Person: Mihai Floroiu
Phone: +40 7288 78671
 
Fax: +40 2131 27135
Email: mihai.floroiu@aracis.ro
 

Information on the agency’s work

By law, ARACIS is a legal, financially independent and autonomous public institution of national interest. ARACIS performs program evaluations, institutional external evaluations and sectoral evaluations of study domains. The Agency carries on the functions of the former Romanian National Council for Academic Assessment and Accreditation (NCAAA).

Agency operates in**: Romania
Specialisation: ARACIS assures the improvement of quality of the higher education system in Romania, being responsible for provisional authorisation, accreditation and quality assurance in higher education, both for study programs and institutions.
Types/Methods of quality assurance used: ARACIS undertakes on a regular basis the following core activities: evaluation (on an ongoing basis and upon request), (review, audit – in Romanian the general term used is “evaluare” which is considered as a synonym to the first two terms within these brackets), and accreditation, at study program and institutional level.
Review reports: http://www.aracis.ro/institutii_ro
ENQA membership: Full member
Report(s): 10.ENQA_final_report_on_ARACIS.pdf
 

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