On November 28 – December 1, within the scope of the institutional accreditation process, ANQA’s expert panel is at the University of Traditional Medicine.
The chair of the expert panel is Karen Trchunyan, Director of the Research Institute of Biology, PhD in Biological Sciences. The members of the expert panel are Anna Sukiasyan, a researcher at the Institute of Biochemistry after H. Buniatyan, dean at the Faculty of Medicine "Mkhitar Gosh" Armenian-Russian International University, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor, Varduhi Khachaturyan, senior teacher at the Shushi University of Technology, Nino Chichveishvili, expert of Georgia’s National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement (NCEQE), founder and chairman of the Women's Scientific Association, teacher at the Teaching University Geomedi, Maria Galstyan, a fifth-year student at the Faculty of Medicine, of the Armenian Medical Institute.
The coordinator of the expert panel is Meri Barseghyan, ANQA’s specialist at Policy Development and Implementation Division.
Prior to the site visit, the expert panel had studied the education institution's self-evaluation report the documents attached, and carried out class observations, resource observations and desk review.
During the site visit, the expert panel had meetings with the education institution’s rector, vice-rectors, the group responsible for the preparation of the self-evaluation report, local and international alumni and employers. Within the scope of the site visit, meetings will also be held with the heads of chairs, heads of subdivisions, managers of APs, academic staff, students, quality assurance managers and other stakeholders. For the third day of the site visit, “professional talks” with the managers, teachers and students of the Aps " Medical Case" and "Dentistry" are also planned.
The next process coming after the site visit is the preparation of an expert panel report, which points out the strengths and weaknesses of the institution and contains the recommendations of the expert panel. Based on that report, the education institution will prepare a follow-up plan with a clear schedule.
Next, ANQA’s Accreditation Committee will make a decision whether to grant accreditation (for two, four or six years) or reject it after studying the package of documents and holding meetings with the education institution’s representatives and experts.
It should be noted that in January 2021, ANQA’s Accreditation Committee granted institutional accreditation for a period of two years to the University of Traditional Medicine.