Značaj institucionalne akreditacije Univerziteta u Sarajevu sa aspekta integracije u evropski prostor visokog obrazovanja (EHEA)
Significance of the University of Sarajevo’s Institutional Accreditation from the Aspect of Integration in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA)

Summary/Abstract: The complexity of higher education institutions’ functioning makes the quality concept of their operating multidimensional and dynamic, which, moreover, depends on the social, economic, socio-political context in which these institutions operate. The challenge becomes even greater if one takes into account the fact that the requirements of so-called stakeholder groups with whom universities correspond that are also variable category. Therefore, development of internal quality assurance dimension, by which institutions are trying to prove that they govern their own processes, becomes the imperative. External dimension of the quality assurance is consisting of external evaluation and accreditation procedures, and by activities that follow the accreditation, and getting implemented by (independent) national or international agencies. The establishing of National Agencies for Accreditation and Quality Development represents articulation of some country’s policy. Recognition and credibility of these agencies within the European Network of Quality Assurance Agencies also implies the validity of the issued accreditation. Therefore, these agencies, along with institutions that were awarded with accreditation, are actually the initiator of forming the integral educational space. In Bosnia and Herzegovina this process is still at the stage of formation, due to the complexity of the entire educational system, legal perplexities and ambiguities that result in the current legal position and responsibilities of the Agency for the Development of Higher Education and Quality of BiH. The approaching of BH universities to the European Higher Education Area is virtually halted.

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