Αριστείδου 1 & Ευριπίδου 2, 10559 Αθήνα

The Hellenic Authority for Higher Education organised a workshop for the staff of Quality Assurance Units of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) on Friday 24 November 2023 in Athens, at the Titania Hotel. 51 executives from all over Greece participated in the workshop.

The workshop entitled “The re-accreditation of the Internal Quality Assurance System (IQAS) of HEIs” was held in 2 parts. In the first part, the Director General of HAHE, Dr. Christina Besta, presented the critical success factors of re-accreditation, highlighting the key points of the quality standard and the significant changes from the previous one, the accreditation proposal as well as the effective organisation of the Quality Assurance Unit. Dr. Besta referred, among others, to the organisational identity of the QAU, the common problems observed in the accreditation proposals submitted by QAUs, issues related to the External Evaluation and Accreditation Panels (EEAPs) and the desirable skills of quality assurance staff. Finally, Mrs. Besta discussed in detail with the participants and answered questions.

In the second part, Dr. Nikolaos Georgiadis (Head of the Directorate of Information Systems and Documentation) and Mrs. Theoni Petropoulou (Head of the Department of Development and Management of Applications & Infrastructure) presented HAHE’s information systems as well as issues related to the quality of HEIs data. More specifically, they presented the applications of the National Information System For Quality Assurance (NISQA) for HEIs (Quality Data Management System, Graduate Tracking, Register of Institutions and Accreditation Management System), as well as issues related to data collection from the institutions.

Dr. Yiannis Kalogerakis, CEO of JMK Anthropocentric Corporate Training and Development, was also a speaker at the workshop, discussing the anthropocentric approach to quality and the value of people in every step and stage of quality assurance.