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In the period from 23rd to 25th October 2024, ENQA's General Assembly was held in St. Julian's, Malta. The event was organized in cooperation with the Malta Further and Higher Education Authority (MFHEA), Malta's competent educational authority for higher education and lifelong learning.
The topic of the General Assembly was "Quality assurance beyond the ESG framework", and there were talks about quality assurance of research, the connection between quality assurance and the social dimension of higher education, revision of ESG , institutional accreditation frameworks and many other topics.

Representatives of the Agency for Higher Education of the Republika Srpska (AVORS) participated in the meeting of the Global Academic Integrity Network (GAIN) held on October 2, where they discussed the development and implementation of legal solutions related to issues of academic integrity in member countries.The meeting was chaired by Dr. Mary Catherine Lennon from the Postsecondary Education Quality Assessment Board Canada (PEQAB), and on that occasion she welcomed all new members of the network, mainly higher education agencies from the European Higher Education Area.

Brussels 16-17.10.2024. - Representatives of the Agency for Higher Education of the Republic of Srpska (AVORS) participated in the second workshop within the SEQA ESG 2 project, organized by the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA).
The workshop where the Standards and guidelines for quality assurance in the European Higher Education Area ESG 2.4 "Peer review experts" were discussed was held in Brussels (Belgium) on October 16 and 17. Participants in the workshop were project partners, namely agencies from Azerbaijan (TKTA), Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska (HEA BiH and AVORS), Serbia (NAT) and Ukraine (NAQA), as well as experts from Austria (AQ AUSTRIA) and of Belgium (VLUHR), Slovenia (NAKVIS), Portugal (A3ES) and the European Student Union (ESU).

On Friday, 20th September, 2024, a regional focus group meeting was held for the purposes of creating a global INQAAHE study on the topic: Global trends in quality assurance in tertiary education. A representative of the Agency for Higher Education of Republika Srpska participated in the work of the focus group, which included representatives of agencies for quality assurance of higher education from the region. Global Studies aims to help higher education policy makers, international organizations, tertiary education leaders, quality assurance professionals, students and the community at large, all stakeholders to achieve their goals in this field. One of the key advantages are the recommendations resulting from the study, which can be used for potential investments in each individual region.
The research that precedes the preparation of the study includes entities that provide external quality assurance services and higher education institutions that conduct internal quality assurance.