Ecole pratique du service social

Basic information

National External Quality Assurance Requirements

  • Evaluations of higher education institutions
    are carried out every 5 years.
  • Review of disciplinary ‘fields’
    are carried out every 5 years.
  • Evaluation of sites using a ‘top-down approach’
    newly introduced in 2017.
  • Evaluation of doctoral schools
    are carried out every 5 years.
  • Further information on external quality assurance in France

External Quality Assurance Reports and Decisions

Institutional level

Part of the obligatory external QA system
Institutional evaluation, CY Cergy Paris University

Programme level

Part of the obligatory external QA system
École doctorale Droit et science politique (third cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    third cycle (NQF 8)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system
École doctorale Éducation, didactiques, cognition (third cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    third cycle (NQF 8)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system
École doctorale Humanités, création, patrimoine (third cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    third cycle (NQF 8)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system
École doctorale n° 405 Économie, management, mathématiques, physique et sciences informatiques (EM2PSI) (third cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    third cycle (NQF 8)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by
Part of the obligatory external QA system
École doctorale n° 417 Sciences et ingénierie (third cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
  • Level
    third cycle (NQF 8)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Offered by

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.