Education Law Laboratory

New Model of University Accreditation

Nadezhda Knyaginina gave her commentary to the online-edition of University World News

New Model of University Accreditation

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“It should be understood that the current indicators, quite specifically formulated along with measurable values, are already a big step forward compared to how it was implemented in the previous accreditation model.

Previously, the university had to guess which line of dozens, if not hundreds of federal state educational standards would lead to the loss of its accreditation. And in these standards, the wording was often extremely abstract.

Now the link to monitoring changes the situation: the indicators are fixed, they are defined specifically, and they are the same for everyone. This means that a situation when one university is deprived of accreditation for something that is not seriously considered a violation in other, plus or minus the same universities, is not allowed. We are moving away from subjective assessments».