Author: zuzana.vavrova

Almost 20,000 students in the first two degrees of higher education study participated in the first year of the survey organised by the Slovak Accreditation Agency for Higher Education. It is an anonymous, so far the largest survey of student’s perceptions of the quality of higher education institutions in Slovakia, which the Agency plans to organise […]

The Slovak Accreditation Agency for Higher Education and the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic participated in the creation of the National Action Plan in the field of external quality assurance of higher education institutions. The Action Plan is one of the deliverables of the international project Supporting Countries and […]

We invite you to an online discussion on the topic of Opening higher education institutions to the world, which will take place on 25 June 2021. Intentions to internationalize the higher education environment are a traditional part of the strategy of most higher education institutions in the Slovak republic. Why are these intentions little visible […]

The working meeting of the Agency with persons responsible for the internal system of higher education institutions on the state of compliance of internal systems and on the submission of applications for the evaluation of the internal system took place on 11 June 2021. The meeting included a discussion on how to apply to the […]

Higher education institutions submit an Application for granting the accreditation of a joint study programme according to § 30 and § 36 para. 2 of Quality Assurance Act no. 269/2018 Coll. as amended in the Agency’s information system (https://is.saavs.sk/). If the higher education institution does not have access to the SAAVS information system, it will […]

Topics related to academic (non)integrity in the recent period regularly resonate in the Slovak higher education and political environment. The related discourse condemned the identified errors and resulted in changes in legislation. However, if failures are not to be repeated, the reasons and motivations that enabled them to need to be identified and the rules […]