The Agency for Science and Higher Education published the 2018 Annual Report and 2019 Activity Plan.
In the past year:
- New model of re-accreditation was applied;
- Guidelines for evaluating higher education institutions and scientific organisations were published for members of expert panels;
- Pilot re-accreditation was carried out at 7 higher education institutions;
- Re-accreditation of 21 higher education institutions was carried out;
- Evaluation of 16 doctoral programmes was conducted at 10 higher education institutions;
- Seven applications for initial accreditation of scientific activity were received and processed;
- Pilot audit was carried out at 3 higher education institutions;
- 2 meetings of CroQAnet network were held;
- Regional Scientific Area Councils held 7 sessions;
- Scientific field committees held 111 sessions and passed 1519 decision;
- Field committees held 28 sessions, passing a total of 344 positive decisions on the fulfilment of criteria for appointment to teaching grades;
- Right to enrol in one of the study programmes delivered by higher education institutions in the Republic of Croatia was given to 26,918 candidates in the summer enrolment period, and 4453 candidates in the autumn enrolment period;
- Results of research on employability of graduate students who graduated in the academic year 2015/16 were presented;
- New service “e-Exchange of student grade” was enabled on e-Citizens portal;
- Conference “The future of higher education: Quality assurance as a promoter of change” was held;
- National ENIC/NARIC office fully admitted 1762 foreign higher education qualifications for the purpose of accessing the labour market;
- ASHE participated as a coordinator/partner in 10 international projects;
- Series of workshops Careering for career advisors at higher education institutions was conducted as part of SKAZVO project;
- Online tool was produced within HRMinHEI project for self-evaluation and analysis of human resources management functions at higher education institutions.