Higher-education authority: amendment filed on evaluators and programme accreditation
Amendment 557/53, dated 27 October, concerns universities and NPPE branches. Proposed changes cover assessment panels and ongoing accreditation procedures.
Amendment 557/53, filed on 27 October 2026, proposes changes to external assessment and accreditation in higher education, as confirmed by Parliament’s official bill record. It is attached to the Health Ministry bill concerning the national psychologists’ association and other provisions.
The Education Ministry published its announcement and the original amendment that day. Parliament’s entry confirms filing; it does not establish passage, Gazette publication or commencement.
Proposed assessment-panel rules
The text provides for the higher-education authority’s register to contain separate categories of independent experts, students and professionals. For university and NPPE-branch programme accreditation and internal quality systems, the usual panel would comprise four experts and one student.
Special provisions apply to regulated professions, with exceptions where suitably registered members cannot be found. Student participation should therefore not be described as an exceptionless rule.
Members could not have a teaching, research or employment relationship with the institution or branch being assessed, or have had such a relationship during the previous five years.
Transitional conditions and further decisions
Pending accreditation could continue with existing panels, subject to conditions on members’ qualifications and registration. Completed stages would remain valid without repetition if they met the relevant guide and standards; this is not unconditional preservation of every previous stage.
The proposal provides for authority decisions on the register’s rules, the accreditation guide and the code of ethics. The ministry’s statements about uniform rules describe its stated policy aim, not an independent assessment of outcomes.
For students and institutions, the amendment concerns the programme-review framework. It does not itself accredit an individual programme or institution or automatically recognise degrees. Its final form and effect must be checked against the enacted text and implementing acts.
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