On October 17-20, within the scope of the accreditation process, ANQA’s expert panel is at Ararat Regional State College.
The chair of the expert panel is Armenuhi Mheryan, a teacher at the Chair of Finance of European University, a Candidate in Economic Sciences, Associate Professor. Other members of the expert panel are Ashot Aleksanyan, head of the Internship Department of Yerevan State College of Informatics, chair of the quality management committee, teacher, Elen Harutyunyan, deputy dean at the Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Physics of MPUA, teacher, Marine Nadoyan, a student at Yerevan State Base Medical College.
The coordinator of the expert panel is Lilit Ghazaryan, the specialist at ANQA’s Secretariat.|
On the first day of the site visit, meetings were held with the College’s director and vice-directors, the group responsible for the preparation of self-evaluation, the Governing Council, employers and alumni.
In the following days, the experts will continue the meeting discussions with the College’s other stakeholders.
Since 2020, ahead of the launch of the second cycle of institutional accreditation, ANQA has included special “professional talks” with the managers, teaching staff and students of the academic programmes in the series of meetings with the stakeholders. During the meetings with stakeholders, the entire trajectory of the preparation of a specialist is observed through the assignments given to students, class observations, internships and study of graduation papers. Within the scope of Ararat Regional State College’s institutional accreditation, the expert panel will have “professional talks” with the managers, teachers and students of the APS “Accounting”, “Organization and Management of Transportation”, and “Computing and Software for Automated Systems”.
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 College and contains the recommendations of the expert panel.
ANQA’s Accreditation Committee will make a decision after studying the package of documents and holding meetings with the College’s representatives and experts.