Accreditation can be defined as the process through which credibility, authority, capability and ability can be certified. In the higher education, accreditation is a process that ensures quality, evaluating the compliance of the service and activities of the Higher Education Institution (HEI) or its programs with the standards, a process that takes a very high importance in terms of a market still growing and developing,…
The offer for programs of study by Higher Education Institutions Public and Private
Starting in 2002, the higher education market in Albania is divided between HEIs public and private that offer different study programs in several cycles. Open Data Albania has examined this indicator, reported by the Accreditation Agency for Higher Education (AAHE). Until October 2013, according to the PAAHE there are 1318 study programs in all HEIs. The main burden of these study programs consists in Bachelor…
Number of Higher Education Institutions in years 2002-2013
The high demand for knowledge and university degrees has made higher education market highly dynamic and constantly growing. While public higher education during the past 10-year-old is mainly characterized by a restructuring of the existing Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) more than the opening of entirely new universities, the private higher education institutions (PHEI) appear to have experienced constant growth since 2002, year that brought the…
The accreditation of Higher Education study programs
Public Accreditation Agency for Higher Education (PAAHE) is part of the external evaluation of the quality, effectiveness and efficiency of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the country. Under the Rules of Accreditation, article 10, all HEIs are subject to institutional and program accreditation periodically, in order to ensure provision of quality study programs and comparable with the European standards. Open Data Albania has taken into…