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EHEA Countries

The map below illustrates the stage of implementation of the key commitment on external quality assurance across the European Higher Education Area (EHEA).

Click on an EHEA country listed below to find out more information about:

  • the list of registered agencies based or operating in that country;
  • the quality assurance reports and decisions by these agencies;
  • on whether higher education institutions can choose any suitable EQAR-registered agencies for their regular external QA (system openness);
  • if higher education institutions can employ the European Approach for the quality assurance of joint programmes.

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About the indicators

EHEA Key Commitment Scorecard Indicator

The stage of development of external Quality Assurance systems follows whether all, some or no higher education institutions are subject regular external quality assurance by an agency that has successfully demonstrated compliance with the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the EHEA (ESG) through registration on EQAR.

The indicator relies on information EQAR has on registered agencies external QA activities within each EHEA member country. This is based on empirical information about the number of ESG compliant reviews undertaken, using information in the DEQAR database (*). For the few agencies not (yet) participating in DEQAR, the annual update of those QA agencies will be used as proxy.

(*) DEQAR shows the live coverage of higher education institutions subject to external QA in compliance with the ESG based on reports being uploaded by EQAR-registered QA agencies. This allows for a real time tracking of EHEA members country’s alignment with the Key Commitment on QA. The time period to be considered for the validity of external QA is collected from each agency. For agencies that do not have a validity date, a ‘6 year’ average is automatically applied.

image/svg+xml Map of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) Map of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) A blank map of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and countries fully surrounded by the EHEA. Every country has an id which is its ISO-3116-1-ALPHA2 code in lower case. Members of the EU have a class="eu", all EHEA countries have a class="europe", non-EHEA countries have a class="nonehea". Image based on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blank_map_of_Europe_(with_disputed_regions).svg by Júlio "Tintazul" Reis and Marian "maix" Sigler. Made by Colin Tück, EQAR, 2017 Released under CreativeCommons Attribution ShareAlike (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/).

Fully aligned with the ESG

A fully functioning quality assurance system is in operation nationwide, in which all higher education institutions are subject to regular external quality assurance by an agency that has successfully demonstrated compliance with the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the EHEA (ESG) through registration on EQAR

Partially aligned with the ESG

A fully functioning quality assurance system is in operation nationwide but only some higher education institutions are subject to regular external quality assurance by an agency that has successfully demonstrated compliance with the ESG through registration on EQAR

Not aligned to the ESG

A quality assurance system is in operation nationwide, but has not (yet) been fully aligned to the ESG

No quality assurance system is in operation