The Slovak Accreditation Agency for Higher Education (hereinafter referred to as the “Agency”) carries out, pursuant to § 24a par. 1 of Act No. 269/2018 Coll. on Quality Assurance in Higher Education and on amendments to Act No. 343/2015 Coll. on public procurement and on amendments to certain acts, as amended (hereinafter referred to as the “Quality Assurance Act”), monitoring of compliance with standards, and the higher education institutions are required to cooperate with the Agency in the performance of such monitoring.
The higher education institution shall provide information on matters relating to the monitoring of compliance pursuant to § 24a par. 1 of Act No. 269/2018 Coll. via the Agency’s information system (https://is.saavs.sk).
After the supporting documents are uploaded, the Agency’s information system will generate a form, which the higher education institution, signed by its statutory representative, will send to the Agency via e-mail box.
Please submit the signed form to the Agency by August 31, 2026, via e-mail box.
Document templates (in Slovak):
- A tabular overview of significant changes to the higher education institution’s internal system that were implemented after the Agency’s decision on the compliance with standards became legally binding
- A tabular overview of all study programs that the higher education institution has established (accredited within its internal system) after the Agency’s decision on the compliance of the higher education institution’s internal system with the standards became legally binding
- A tabular overview of all study programs that the higher education institution has withdrawn after the Agency’s decision on the compliance of the higher education institution’s internal system with the standards became legally binding
- A tabular overview of all selection processes for filling the positions of associate professor and professor that were conducted after the Agency’s decision on the compliance of the higher education institution’s internal system with the standards became legally binding
- A tabular overview of graduates of standard-length study programmes by parts of the higher education institution for the last two academic years (2023/24 and 2024/25)
- A tabular overview of study programmes implementing distance learning methods. Only study programmes provided exclusively through distance learning or through a blended learning approach, in which distance learning accounts for more than 40% of the total teaching load, are listed
- A tabular overview summarizing the study programmes provided by the higher education institution outside its main seat in Slovakia and abroad
- A tabular overview of the higher education institution’s activities regarding the Agency’s recommendations from the latest assessment of the higher education institution’s internal system’s compliance with standards
Questions regarding the monitoring of compliance with standards may be sent to the Agency at ziadosti@saavs.sk.
