The Agency for Science and Higher Education (ASHE) presented The Analysis of the five-year cycle of re-accreditation of higher education institutions (2010 – 2015) on Friday, the 7th of July 2017 at the premises of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
This publication presents comprehensive information about Croatian higher education institutions and their activities and is the result of the first thorough evaluation of all public and private higher education institutions in Croatia (universities and their constituents – faculties and academies as well as polytechnics and colleges) which began in 2010 and was completed in 2015.
The event brought together more than a hundred leaders of Croatian higher education institutions and members of the academic and scientific community who were addressed by Professor Jasmina Havranek, Director of ASHE, Professor Ivana Franić, Assistant Minister for Science and Higher Education and Professor Šimun Anđelinović, the President of the Croatian Rectors’ Conference in their welcome speeches.
Professor Jasmina Havranek, the Director of ASHE, emphasised that, “The Croatian system of science and higher education has never before been evaluated in this way. For the first time, we have a complete insight into its quality and efficiency.”
On behalf of ASHE, Irena Petrušić, PhD, presented the findings and recommendations from the five-year cycle of re-accreditation of higher education institutions, while mr. sc. Sandra Bezjak, Assistant Director of ASHE spoke about the impact of evaluation on improvements in higher education. The project Improvement of quality assurance and enhancement systems in higher education (SKAZVO), implemented by ASHE with the purpose of developing the new model of external quality assurance system in Croatian higher education was also presented on this occasion.