Swiss Center of Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education

Swiss Center of Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education (or “Organe d’accréditation et d’assurance qualité des hautes écoles suisses" (OAQ)) is an organisation that performs accreditation of higher education institutes in Switzerland. It is part of the Schweizerische Akkreditierungsrat (SAR) which selects the director of the OAQ.[1] The current Director is Rolf Heusser.

The OAQ is a member of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education and specializes in institutional evaluation.

History
  • 2001: Official creation of the OAQ [2][3][4]
  • 2006: OAQ was granted full membership of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) in December [5]
  • 2007: Agreement on mutual recognition of accreditation results between the Commission des titres d'Ingénieur (CTI) and the Swiss Center of Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education (OAQ) is signed in Barcelona [6]
  • 2011: ENQA's committee renews OAQ membership [7]

International recognition

OAQ is a member of the ENQA and part of the founding members of ECA and listed by the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR).

Standard procedure

OAQ's evaluation and accreditation procedures are made out of 3 main steps being Auto-evaluation, External evaluation and Publication.[8]

References
  1. https://www.shk.ch/themen/akkreditierung/
  2. "OAQ - Swiss Center of Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education". ecahe.eu.
  3. "Etude de législation comparée n°237 - juin 2013 - L'assurance qualité externe des universités". www.senat.fr.
  4. "La qualité à l'université de Genève - Contexte règlementaire suisse et européen". www.unige.ch.
  5. "OAQ External Review Report 2011" (PDF). www.eqar.eu. 2 September 2011.
  6. "Agreement on mutual recognition of accreditation results between CTI and OAQ" (PDF). www.cti-commission.fr.
  7. "L'OAQ membre à part entière de l'ENQA". www.oaq.ch.
  8. "Infographic - OAQ's evaluation procedures" (PDF). www.oaq.ch/pub/fr.
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