Does the ESG matter for the countries that are not part of the European Higher Education Area?

But Dedaj,Genc Zhushi,Luljeta Aliu,Mjellma Carabregu Vokshi,Peter Eckl

doi:10.20525/ijrbs.v8i6.571

Abstract

In recent years the European countries have created a standard form for their Higher Education Systems, the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG). In this paper, we have analyzed the levels of the Accreditation Process applied to the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Kosovo and Albania, and the compliance to the ESG guidelines. Furthermore, throughout the entire paper, we have made a comparison of the standards of the Accreditation Process for the HEIs in Kosovo and Albania. In order to capture these stages, we have surveyed both the accreditation agencies and the HEIs in Kosovo and Albania. From this analysis, we came to the conclusion that the accreditation process in Kosovo and Albania for the HEIs are in compliance to the ESG standards, and there is no a huge difference appearing, although Kosova is not part of Bologna Process. The paper gives hands-on information about the accreditation process of the HEIs in Kosovo and Albania that will be in the interest of all Higher Education System designers and developers of these two countries, but also for other transitions countries.

Highlights

Economic growth, and social cohesion are linked to higher education, innovation and research
Quality assurance is an important task for the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Kosovo and Albania, in this paper we have presented the levels of the quality of the accreditation procedures of the HEIs in those two countries, and if those requirements are in compliance with the ESG standards
In this chapter we have presented all the responses of the HEIs in Kosovo and Albania to our survey, her we have to notice that 5 HEIs in Albania and 8 HEIs in Albania were surveyed, but not all of them responded to all the questions on our questionnaire, in the following of this paper we will present a detail overlock of the responses that we got in the same order as we have described in the chapter above

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Social cohesion are linked to higher education, innovation (property rights) and research. International Journal of Research in Business & Social Science 8(6)(2019) 301-320 all stakeholders This standardized form has an important role in the development of national and institutional quality assurance system across the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and international cooperation, by increasing the transparency and creating a recognized higher education system for their qualifications, programmes and other provision. The Standards and guidelines for quality assurance agencies consists of: activities, policy and processes for quality assurance, official status, independence, thematic analysis, resources, internal quality assurance and professional conduct and cyclical external review of agencies These three parts work on a complementary basis in higher education institutions as well as in agencies and work on the understanding that other stakeholders contribute to the framework. HEIs in both countries were asked questions related to the requirements of accreditation agencies, which according to the ESG standards, must be fulfilled

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