ANQA specialists organized an online meeting with the experts of the participating universities: Eurasia International University, French University in Armenia, Yerevan Northern University, Armenian National University of Architecture and Construction. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss with experts the scope of preparation of the advisory report and the upcoming work after conducting an external evaluation.
It should be noted that at the beginning of the program capacity building trainings with partner universities was followed by the implementation of SWOT analysis by them. Internal experts now have to submit an advisory report to their university.
During the meeting ANQA Director Ruben Topchyan emphasized the fact that through the program the employees of the universities have the opportunity to consider the activity of their educational institution as an external evaluator․ ANQA specialists expressed readiness to support external experts and advise them for compiling the report.
The goal of the "Capacity building in quality assurance of higher education institutions in Armenia" program is to develop the internal quality assurance capacities of HEIs by creating reform groups, as well as to prepare the HEIs for institutional accreditation.