CONIES  Council on International Higher Education Supervision

QUALITAS VINCET - QUALITY WINS

Who We Are

CONIES was founded during the international conference of universities from Latin America, Europe and Asia in Managua, Nicaragua, in March 2012 as the Confederación Internacional de Educación Superior, with its English acronym ICHE International Confederation of Higher Education.

CONIES as a membership organization has since developed and internationalized, establishing an Austrian branch CONIES as registered Non-Profit-Organisation.

CONSIDERING

That national programme accreditation systems are limited by state boundaries and do normally not apply to international postgraduate programmes, trans-national higher education, inter-university joint, dual and double degree programmes across institutions and nations.

That university systems of self-accreditation and autonomy do not require external accreditation of programmes and that accreditation is a verification of the quality of a programme provided.

That university systems requiring the recognition or authorisation or national accreditation of programmes provision do often not include inter-university and trans-national provision of programmes, in this case accreditation provides the external verification.

OFFERING MEMBER SERVICES

QMS CERTIFICATION

PROGRAMME VALIDATION FOR NON-AWARDING HEI

PROGRAMME ACCREDITATION FOR AWARDING HEI

(HEI Higher Education Institution) 

OBJECTIVE

CONIES-ICHE acts as a clearing-house for the purpose of assessing and certifying the comparability of the quality of TCO-programme provision for mutual recognition and credit transfer among member institutions of higher education .

What We Do

CONIES has emerged as the COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION SUPERVISION offering two types of quality assurance certifications and accreditations to member universities: Quality Management System certification and Programme Accreditation. 

CORE VALUES

CONIES Board of Accreditation is guided by these Core Values:

• Voluntary membership
• Auto-evaluation and peer-review
• Transparency about the accreditation processes and the status of each accredited institution and programme



MISSION

CONIES; a voluntary, non-governmental, membership association is dedicated to quality assurance certification and programme validation through accreditation via peer evaluation.

VISION

CONIES serves institutions of higher education striving to achieve quality management system certification and programme accreditation through voluntary assessment and adherence to CONIES accreditation standards.

TCO-ACCREDITATION

The CONIES-ICHE Board of Accreditation is a reliable accreditation system of programmes provided by TCO (TNE-COP-ODL)

TNE refers to transnational education

COP refers to collaborative provision

ODL refers to online open and distance learning