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CONIES ICHE BOARD OF ACCREDITATION
PROVIDES
INTERNATIONAL ACCREDITATION AND VALIDATION
OF
POSTGRADUATE TRANSNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE ONLINE
DEGREE COURSES
OFFERED BY
UNIVERSITIES AND HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
The International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE) is a world-wide association of 300+ organisations active in the theory and practice of quality assurance in higher education.
Founded in 2003, the Asia-Pacific Quality Network (APQN) is a non-governmental and non-profit network who has been striving for “Enhancing the Quality of Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific Region” and "Dissolving Boundaries for a Quality Region".
After 19-year development, APQN has 253 members from 45 countries and territories, becoming the largest and the most influential international organization on higher education in this Region. APQN has played a crucial and unique role in improving the QA mechanism, exchanging theory and practice experiences, promoting substantive co-operations, establishing Consultant Bank, reviewing Asia-Pacific Quality Register (APQR) and Asia-Pacific Quality Label (APQL) in this Region.
AAA is the American Accreditation Association, recognized by the US government- state corporation commission of the commonwealth of Virginia State, and authorized to transact ist accreditation services by the articles of corporation under Title 13.1 of the Code of Virginia, to offer a full range of comprehensive accreditation services including the full scale of accreditation according to ISO/IEC 17021-1.
AAA and CONIES Board of Accreditation offer joint accreditation and quality assurance schemes.
With government and industry backing, the UK Quality Award (now the UK Excellence Award) was established in 1993. The Award is promoted and managed by a new, independent, not-for-profit body called The British Quality Foundation (BQF). In addition to managing this new quality award, BQF also began to offer support to organisations, of all sizes and sectors. These organisations wanted to use the Business Excellence Model. By creating networking groups to encourage debate and knowledge sharing, BQF started a programme of best practice conferences and seminars, attracting over 1,500 member organisations within its first two years. Going forward, we will continue to support organisations to achieve excellence through remaining true to our core principle of placing the membership at the heart of all our decisions, actions and plans. We should all take great pride in the reputation that BQF has created since it was founded in 1993 and, arguably, our role in enabling excellence in organisations and supporting our members in their excellence journeys has never been more important than it is right now. The pillars of the BQF Member Community, the BQF Academy services and our certification and recognition schemes will continue to equip you well to survive and thrive in your own particular context. CONIES is a member of BQF. Click here for the membership certificate (PDF)
The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, AACSB International (AACSB), a global nonprofit association, connects educators, students, and business to achieve a common goal: to create the next generation of great leaders. Synonymous with the highest standards of excellence since 1916, AACSB provides quality assurance, business education intelligence, and learning and development services to over 1,700 member organizations and more than 900 accredited business schools worldwide. When educational, professional, and business organizations become members of the AACSB Business Education Alliance, they are part of a movement united to improve the quality of business education around the world. AACSB connects, shares, and inspires innovation and quality throughout the member network, as well as the business community. The collective strength of the organization is founded on diverse perspectives, a global mindset, and a commitment to making a difference.AACSB’s mission is to foster engagement, accelerate innovation, and amplify impact in business education. The global organization has offices located in Tampa, Florida, USA; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and Singapore. CONIES is a member of the AACSB Business Education Alliance.
The UQMI provides support in the specific area of Continuous Improvement. Our support is focused on the Quality Disciplines that are typically required of those individuals that are seeking to move forward in the field of Quality Engineering. UQMI services are available to Partner Members that include academic institutions both domestic and international. In addition, UQMI supports the work of consulting firms, third party training organizations and companies that are creating internal based training programs. UQMI services provide the necessary support and recognition that is necessary to promote a system of standardized evaluation and recognition.
The Board of Quality Standards BQS is an independent international quality assurance regulator and a member of the international quality assurance agencies for higher education (INQAAHE). The organization is an independent international legal personality governed by charter to serve as Quality Assurance Authoritative Body to promote quality assurance in Higher education and certification bodies. The BQS is an independent quality management Accreditation and certification body for ISO standards complying with the accreditation requirement of ISO 17021.The organization is also an international network of professionals on quality assurance and curriculum accreditation. The International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE) is a world-wide association of 300+ organizations active in the theory and practice of quality assurance in higher education. BQS is complying with the accreditation requirements of ISO 17021, ISO Guide 53, ISO Guide 65 and ISO Guide 67 set forth by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
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.
CONIES is also registered in Delaware, USA, as the Council on International Higher Education Supervision.
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 .
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.
CONIES Board of Accreditation is guided by these Core Values:
CONIES; a voluntary, non-governmental, membership association is dedicated to quality assurance certification and programme validation through accreditation via peer evaluation.
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.
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
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