Overview of QA Bodies

Kosovo* Accreditation Agency (KAA) was established in March 2008 by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST) in accordance with the Law on Higher Education (2003/14) in Kosovo*, as the Agency that guarantees the quality of work educational and scientific research in Higher Education Institutions in Kosovo*.

The Kosovo* Accreditation Agency is an independent authority, which accredits and re-accredits public and private institutions of higher education for a limited period of time.

The mission of the KAA is to support the development of the quality in HE institutions through the accreditation process as well as to assure the Kosovo* society that the quality of teaching and learning is at the level of international standards. The KAA aims are:

• To open the sector of higher education for providers from Kosovo* and abroad
• To provide quality assurance for all institutions of higher education
• To promote, improve and develop the quality of the higher education sector
• To create transparency and comparability in the interest of providers, students and labour market
• To encourage innovative forms and content in higher education
• To ensure the comparability of degrees from Kosovo* higher education institutions with those awarded by international programmes
• To implement the objectives for the integration of Kosovo* into the European Higher Education Area and to contribute to its development.

(Source: EACEA Overview of the Higher Education System, 2020, accessed November, 2021)