About the Agency

The Agency is an independent public legal entity that carries out external quality assurance activities in higher education implementing internationally recognized procedures (especially ESG2015). Through regular assessments, it contributes to improving the internal quality assurance of independent higher education institutions, which are primarily responsible for the quality of education they provide. The specific remit of the Agency is defined in the Act No. 269/2018 Coll. as amended. The Agency’s procedures have been assessed and verified by independent international organizations ENQA and WFME. The Agency’s decisions, together with evaluation reports, are publicly available and recorded in the European Database of External Quality Assurance Results DEQAR.

Remit of the Agency

The stated Act empowers the Agency to assess the compliance of the internal quality assurance system of a higher education institution with the Standards and to decide on the rights of the respective higher education institutions to independently establish new study programmes in defined fields of study and levels of education. The Act also entitles the Agency to decide on the granting or non-granting of accreditation of a study programme in a new field of study and level of education, on the granting, non-granting or withdrawal of accreditation of the habilitation proceeding and/or the inauguration proceeding, to decide on the suspension of the proceeding for the application for state approval to operate as a private higher education institution, and to impose corrective measures on higher education institutions in relation to these rights.

The stated Act does not allow the Agency to address complaints from students and/or employees about the procedures of a higher education institution, and the Agency is neither an appeal body in relation to such complaints. The Agency, based on the law, continuously monitors compliance with the Standards and may decide on an extraordinary review of the internal system of a higher education institution, but only based on documents specified in the stated Act.