Structure and membership

The Standing Committees by areas of higher education and the Standing Committee on Post-Accreditation Monitoring and Control are formed by the Accreditation Council which appoints their members through selection by applications.

The Committees are comprised of 3 to 7 members, one of whom is Chairman of the Committee. The Chairman of the Accreditation Council appoints the members of the Committees for a three-year term.

The Standing Committees by areas of higher education are 8, even though the National Classification of Fields of Study in Higher Education includes 9 areas of higher education and 52 professional fields. The Standing Committees are 8 since for areas 8 and 9: “Arts” and “Military Science” a separate Committee wasn’t established because of the small number of institutions and programmes in these two areas. On the contrary in area 3 “Social Science” the number of professional fields and majors is so big that it became necessary that two committees be responsible for them: the Standing Committee on Social Science, Law and National Security Studies and Standing Committee on Economic Sciences and Management.

The Standing Committees of the HE areas:

1. Make the decision to start the requested procedure or for rejection to start the procedure, when the information required according to art. 81, para 6 and 8 of the HE Act has not been provided by the requester or by the HE institution in the cases under art.81, para 7 of the HE Act for:

a)program accreditation of professional fields;

b)program accreditation of scientific majors, other than those included in the regulated professions list;

c) evaluation of a project for opening a professional field;

2. Propose to the Chairman of the Accreditation Council the membership and tasks of the Expert Teams according to the procedures described in art.81, para1, item 2, letters “b” and “d” and item 6, letter “b” of the HE Act;

3. Control the work of the Expert Teams and assign the supervision of the procedure to a member of the Standing Committee;

4. Consider the reports of the Expert Teams, submitted to the Committee, after their coordination with those supervising the procedure;

5. Make decisions based on the reports under item 4 about:

a)program accreditation of professional fields;

b)program accreditation of scientific majors, other than those included in the regulated professions list;

c)project evaluation for opening a professional field;

6. Prepare and submit to the Accreditation Council reports on the results of the evaluation carried out for the procedures of:

а)institutional accreditation;

b)program accreditation of majors from the regulated professions list;

c)program accreditation of scientific majors from the regulated professions list;

d)project evaluation for opening a HE institution;

e)project evaluation for transformation of a HE institution;

f)project evaluation for opening of a primary unit and/or branch;

g)project evaluation for opening of a major from the regulated professions list.

Related contents

• Standing Committee on Economic Sciences and Management
• Standing Committee on Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Computing
• Standing Committee on Agrarian Sciences and Veterinary Medicine
• Standing Committee on Social and Legal Sciences, Security and Defence
• Standing Committee on Technical Sciences
• Standing Committee on Educational Sciences and Social Activities
  
• Standing Committee on Healthcare and Sports
• Standing Committee on Humanities and Arts

Organizational units:

• President
• Vice-President
• Accreditation Council
• Secretary General
• Standing Committee on Post-Accreditation Monitoring and Control
• Standing Committees by Areas of Higher Education
• Specialized administration