A meeting with the expert groups of Abovyan State College of Power Engineering, Vayots Dzor Regional and Tavush Regional State Colleges took place at the National Center for Professional Education Quality Assurance (ANQA). During the meeting, the participants discussed the regional peculiarities of the colleges, the topics regarding the assurance of the achieved learning outcomes of the academic programmes and the credible award of qualifications.
The expert groups are currently in the stage of preliminary assessment. At the core of the study are the self-evaluations, the attached documents of vocational education institutions, and the electronic questionnaires filled out by them. Site visits will start in the near future. The experts will have meetings with the internal and external stakeholders of the institutions, will conduct resource and class observations, as well as examination of documents. The results of the site visits will be presented in the reports, where, based on the provided recommendations, the educational institutions will develop plans for the elimination of drawbacks for further enhancement of their processes.