The role of education quality assessment in national accreditations

1. Stakeholders

1.1. Ministy of education and science

1.2. Universities management team

1.3. Professors and teaching staff of the University

1.4. Representatives of the Accreditation body

1.5. Students

2. Formal reasons of accreditation

2.1. The Bologna process

2.2. The Law of the RK on Education

2.3. State program for the development of education and science

2.4. The integration into the world educational society

3. Real reasons for accreditation

3.1. State funding (educational grants)

3.2. Ratings

3.3. University reputation

3.4. Marketing and advertisement

4. Issues

4.1. Academic honesty during accreditation process

4.1.1. The violation of ethical principles

4.1.2. Documents corrections instead of changing business processes as required

4.2. The Kazakhstani diplomas are not valued in European countries

4.3. The low level of response to recommendations in the practice

4.3.1. Working under the recommendations during several years

5. Solutions

5.1. Create at the University an internal department for monitoring quality education (based on accreditations committee recomendations and comments)

5.2. To improve the ethical principles among University staff

5.3. Organize the business process in the Universities

5.4. Include in accreditation committee an international members