Swiss Agency of Accreditation and Quality Assurance
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Swiss Center of Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education (French: Organe d'accréditation et d'assurance qualité des hautes écoles suisses), or simply OAQ, was formally an organization that provided evaluations of universities for institutional accreditation for higher education in Switzerland. It was part of the Swiss Accreditation Council (SAR) which selected the director of the OAQ.[1] It was legally responsible for reviewing the quality of teaching and research in Swiss universities, and carried out quality assurance of education and internal services procedures in accordance to their guidelines. When accrediting a university, the OAQ followed the procedures in accordance with the guidelines approved by the Swiss University Conference (CUS).[2] The organization was operational from 2001 to 2014, and was succeeded by the Swiss Agency for Accreditation and Quality Assurance (AAQ).[3]
History
- 2001: Official creation of the OAQ. [2][3][4][5][6]
- 2006: OAQ was granted full membership of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) in December. [7]
- 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. [8]
- 2011: ENQA's committee renews OAQ membership. [9]
- 2015: Replaced by AAQ.
International recognition
OAQ was a member of the ENQA[citation needed] and part of the founding members of ECA and listed by the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR).[citation needed]
Standard procedure
OAQ's evaluation and accreditation procedures are made out of 3 main steps being Auto-evaluation, External evaluation and Publication.[10]
References
- ^ "Akkreditierung". shk.ch. Schweizerische Hochschulkonferenz. Retrieved June 26, 2022.
- ^ a b "Mandate and functions". oaq.ch. Organe d´accréditation et d´assurance qualité des hautes écoles suisses. Archived from the original on July 5, 2014. Retrieved June 26, 2022.
{{cite web}}:|archive-date=/|archive-url=timestamp mismatch; September 15, 2014 suggested (help) - ^ a b "AAQ • Swiss Agency of Accreditation and Quality Assurance". enqa.eu. The European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education. Retrieved June 26, 2022.
- ^ "OAQ - Swiss Center of Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education". ecahe.eu.
- ^ "Etude de législation comparée n°237 - juin 2013 - L'assurance qualité externe des universités". www.senat.fr.
- ^ "La qualité à l'université de Genève - Contexte règlementaire suisse et européen". www.unige.ch.
- ^ "OAQ External Review Report 2011" (PDF). www.eqar.eu. 2 September 2011.
- ^ "Agreement on mutual recognition of accreditation results between CTI and OAQ" (PDF). www.cti-commission.fr.
- ^ "L'OAQ membre à part entière de l'ENQA". www.oaq.ch.
- ^ "Infographic - OAQ's evaluation procedures" (PDF). www.oaq.ch/pub/fr.