On October 31 - November 3, within the scope of the institutional accreditation process, ANQA’s expert panel carries out external review at the Vanadzor State Medical College.
The chair of the expert panel is Lilit Zakaryan, director at the Quality Assessment and Assurance Center of the Armenian National Agrarian University, Candidate of Historical Sciences. The members of the expert panel are Lilit Abelyan, head of Internal Quality Assurance Center of the Kotayk Regional State College, Meri Sargsyan, vice director of Academic Affairs of Yerevan State Basic Medical College, Edita Kasinyan, a second-year student at the Faculty of Food Product Technologies of the Armenian National Agrarian University.
The coordinator of the expert panel is Liana Alaverdyan, assistant to ANQA’s director. Prior to the site visit, the expert panel had studied the education institution's self-evaluation report, the documents attached and carried out a desk review.
On the first day of the site visit, the expert panel conducted class observation and resource observations, as well as had meetings with the education institution’s management staff, employers and alumni. During the site visit, meetings will also be held with the education institution’s students, teachers, heads of chairs, and the group responsible for the preparation of self-evaluation, manager of quality assurance and other stakeholders.
On the third day of the site visit, “professional talks” will take place with the managers, teaching staff, and students of the Aps "Nursing", "Midwifery" and "Medical Cosmetology".
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.
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.
Let us note that this is the first accreditation of Vanadzor State Medical College.