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.
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 .
