Representatives of the Agency for Higher Education of the Republic of Srpska participated in the General Assembly of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA), which was held on April 28, 2022 through the Zoom platform. At the General Assembly of ENQA, the necessary amendments to the Statute of ENQA were discussed, the financial report was discussed and adopted, after which there was talk about the projects in which ENQA participates.
The fifth meeting of the Steering Committee of the project "Education and Employment" financed by the European Union was held on April 28, 2022. year through the Zoom platform, and brought together representatives of various institutions and institutions from all levels of education.
The agency was represented by Assistant Director for Accreditation and International Cooperation Duska Radmanovic, who is also a member of the Project Steering Committee.
The Expert Team for ranking higher education institutions in Republic of Srpska continued its visit to higher education institutions in Republic of Srpska. Head of the Expert Team prof. Darko Petkovic, PhD and member of the team prof. Mile Dzelalija, PhD, with a represantative of the Agency for higher education of Republic of Srpska(online) during their visit to Trebinje on April 13, 2022, visited the College of Tourism and Hotel Management. At the meeting held by the Expert Team with the representatives of the higher education institution in Trebinje, it was emphasized that the project of ranking higher education institutions in Republic of Srpska for the first time provides a detailed insight into the real situation in higher education and everything that has been done in higher education institutions in the past ten years. During this meeting, members of the Expert Team gave clear guidelines on how to develop and improve international cooperation and scientific research.
Assistant Director for Accreditation and International Cooperation Duska Radmanovic and Expert Advisor for Accreditation Tatjana Radakovic participated in the third meeting of the Working Group for drafting the document "Models and Procedures of System Accreditation", which discussed the cluster accreditation model.
Radmanović was appointed a member of this working group, which also includes representatives of the Agency for the Development of Higher Education and Quality Assurance, and the competent educational authorities and higher education institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which met for the third time on April 19.
Within the accreditation procedure, in the period from April 05 to April 08, 2022, the Panel of Experts visited the University Slobomir P in Bijeljina. The visit of the Panel of Experts to this higher education institution included interviews with teaching staff, students, university and faculty services, as well as other stakeholders. Through interviews, review of documentation and a tour of the physical resources of the University, the Panel gained an insight into the level of meeting requirements of standards and criteria for accreditation, about which a detailed report will be prepared in the coming period.
