The ASIIN Accreditation Commission met in Düsseldorf on 21/22 March 2024 for its quarterly meeting.
Led by the Chair, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Katrin Lehmann (Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg) and the Deputy Chair, Prof. Dr. Robert Hänsch (Technische Universität Braunschweig), the Accreditation Commission dealt with 38 applications for programme accreditation and one application for system accreditation.
At its first meeting on 26 February 2024, the new Board, which has been in office since the beginning of the year, elected Prof. Dr Klaus Kreulich as Chair and Prof. Dr Christian Andreas Schumann as Vice Chair.
ASIIN e. V. and the Office for National Education Standards and Quality Assessment (ONESQA) of Thailand have embarked on a collaborative journey to elevate education quality in Thailand. ONESQA, entrusted with developing criteria and methods for external quality assessment, is dedicated to evaluating educational institutions' achievements and management to ensure excellence.
Since its founding in 2011, the European Alliance for Subject-Specific and Professional Accreditation and Quality Assurance (EASPA) has provided a platform for the cooperation between the European and international quality assurance networks and international organizations in the development and harmonization of their activities in the field of quality assurance and quality improvement in higher education.
The newly founded ASIIN Global University Network of Excellence in Higher Education (AGUNE) was successfully launched with an Online Opening Event on the 25th of January 2024. The event ensued with the welcome address from Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Christian-Andreas Schumann, Vice-President, ASIIN, Board of Directors. Mr Rosenberg, member of the ASIIN Board was also present. The Managing Director of ASIIN, Dr Iring Wasser, elaborated on ASIIN’s vision for AGUNE, how AGUNE fits into the ASIIN set-up and about the expectations associated with this new alliance.
