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The Central and Eastern European Network of Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (CEENQA) held on March 16. 2022 the ninth bimonthly online meeting of representatives of network member agencies, which in addition to the report of the president and board members was dedicated to the presentation of the work of network member agencies and the topic of external evaluation of doctoral studies.

Assistant Director for Accreditation and International Cooperation Duska Radmanovic participated in the webinar "Equality and Diversity in External Quality Assurance in Higher Education" organized by the Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation Austria.
The webinar was dedicated to issues of gender equality, but also to equality on all other grounds, including national and religious affiliation and equality for people with disabilities.

The expert team for ranking higher education institutions in Republic of Srpska continued its visit to higher education institutions in Republic of Srpska. Members of the Expert Team prof. Darko Petkovic, PhD and prof. Mile Dzelalija, PhD (online), with the coordinators from AHERS during their stay in Doboj on March 9, 2022, visited two higher schools: Doboj Medical College of Health and College of Business and Technical Education. During the visit, the evaluation of these two higher schools continued in accordance with the set standards. An interview was conducted with the management of each higher school, teaching staff and students.
In a constructive conversation, the members of the Expert Team pointed out how to achieve standardized values as much as possible, but they also pointed out the shortcomings and gave guidelines on how to resolve them.

The 32nd regular session of the Steering Board of the Agency was held in the premises of the Agency for Higher Education of the Republic of Srpska. The following documents were discussed and adopted at the session: Agency's Work Report with the Financial Statement for 2021, Work Plan of the Agency with the Financial Plan for 2022, Public Procurement Plan for 2022 and Supplement to the List of Reviewers of the Agency for Higher Education of the Republic of Srpska.
It is important to emphasize that the List of Reviewers was supplemented in relation to 2021 with an additional 253 reviewers, so that now there are a total of 723 reviewers on the List.
Other issues of importance for the work of the Agency were also on the agenda of the session.