1. Critical Review of Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education Accreditation Agency of Republika Srpska: IV Accreditation Forum Banja Luka, November 12 th, 2013 Vera Vujčić, CAQA Vice-President

2. System of Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Serbia 2005 Law on Higher Education 2006 - CAQA was constituted - NCHE adopts: 1. Standards and procedures for accreditation of HEIs and study programs 2. Standards and procedures for external quality control of HEIs 3. Standards for self-evaluation

3. System of Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Serbia 2008 - CAQA becomes ENQA Associate 2010 - CAQA becomes ENQA Candidate member 2011 - CAQA enters process of external evaluation (self-evaluation report) 2012 – site visit of expert team April 25 th, 2013 – CAQA becomes full ENQA member

4. I Accreditation Round (2007-2011) 2007: 78 polytechnics+515 programs 2008: 81 faculties/coll./univ.+928 programs 2009: 60 faculties/coll./univ.+308 programs 2010: 13 faculties/coll./univ.+51 programs 2011: 145 programs Total: 232 HEIs+1947 programs submitted accreditation request

5. Results of I Accreditation Round 65 (47 state, 18 private) accredited polytechnics with 331 study programs (BPS, SPS) for 22.773 students in the first year 16 accredited universities (8 state, 8 private) 118 accredited faculties with 1205 study programs (BAS, MAS, IAS, SAS, DS, BPS, SPS) for 65.607 students in the first year 6 (2 state, 4 private) accredited colleges with 17 study programs for 1.112 students in the first year Total: 205 HEIs+1553 programs accredited (85% students enroll state, 15% private HEIs)

6. II Accreditation Round (2012-2016) 2012: 51 polytechnics+210 programs accredited (3+2 Act of Warning) 2013: 27 HEIs+357 programs in progress Expected: 2014: 62 HEIs+400 programs 2015: 55 HEIs+350 programs 2016: 10 HEIs+200 programs

7. I External quality control round (2011-2015) 2011: 54 requests of HEIs supported by self-evaluation reports 2012: 44 requests of HEIs supported by self-evaluation reports Current Results: CAQA accepted 78 reports on external quality control of HEIs 2013: 50 requests expected 2014: 50 requests expected 2015: 10 requests expected

8. Accreditation of Polytechnics- System-Wide Analysis From 2007-2012 polytechnics have fully implemented internal QA processes which is documented by: self-evaluation reports reports on external quality control results of the second accreditation round In October 2012, Conference of Academies for Professional Studies became a member of EURASHE

9. Accreditation of Polytechnics- System-Wide Analysis Regional distribution of HEIs Distribution of study programs in five fields No. of students enrolled in the first year of basic professional studies (180 ECTS) No. of students enrolled in the first year of specialist professional studies (60 ECTS) No. of students per professor No. of square meters in higher education institution per student.

10. Accreditation of Polytechnics- System-Wide Analysis Region Number of schools Number of study programs (2013) Number of students (2013) Belgrade25128 9648 Vojvodina1170 3831 Šumadija and Western Sebia 1499 5029 Eastern and Southern Serbia 1265 3525 Kosovo 3 16 1382 Total65378 23415

11. Accreditation of Polytechnics- System-Wide Analysis

13. Accreditation of Polytechnics- System-Wide Analysis Number and percentage of students in different fields

14. Accreditation of Polytechnics- System-Wide Analysis Number and percentage for state schools

15. Accreditation of Polytechnics- System-Wide Analysis Number and percentage for private schools

16. Accreditation of Polytechnics- System-Wide Analysis Number of programs of different levels in fields

17. Accreditation of Polytechnics- System-Wide Analysis Number of students of different levels in fields

18. Accreditation of Polytechnics- System-Wide Analysis Comparative analysis of two accreditation rounds Scientific field (number of schools) 2007-20112008-2012 number of students/number of teachers (mean ± SD) m 2 /number of students (mean ± SD) number of students/number of teachers (mean ± SD) m 2 /number of students (mean ± SD) HSS (n=20)34.0 ± 14.574.62 ± 4.3530.1 ± 12.024.44 ± 3.51 TTS (n=26)26.1 ± 11.103.23 ± 2.8823.6 ± 9.363.25 ± 1.23 MS (n=4)17.6 ± 15.066.08 ± 3.3213.0 ± 1.886.89 ± 2.87 Total31.4 ± 13.613.82 ± 3.3427.7 ± 10.724.47 ± 3.51

19. Future activities Harmonization of standards with changes in ESG Development of subject-specific standards Improvement of standards for doctoral studies Improvement of external quality control procedures to include follow-up