On October 21-23, as part of the institutional accreditation process, ANQA’s expert panel conducts external review at the Ararat Regional State College.
The chair of the expert panel is Armenuhi Sargsyan, leading researcher at the M. Nalbandyan State University of Shirak, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Associate Professor. The members of the expert panel are Narine Hovhannisyan, teacher at the Chair of Plant Origin Product and Processing Technologies at the Armenian National Agrarian University, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Olya Avetisyan, teacher at the Yerevan State College of Light Industry and clothing designer at "Alex Textile" company, Garegin Davtyan, student of the AP "Computing Equipment and Automated Systems Software" at the Yerevan State College of Light Industry.
The process coordinator is Liana Alaverdyan, specialist at ANQA’s institutional and Programme Accreditation Division.
Prior to the site visit, the expert panel studied the institution's self-evaluation, the documents attached, as well as conducted desk review.
As part of the external review, meetings were held with the institution’s management staff, employers, members of the Governing Council, heads of chairs, teachers, students, alumni, Student Council representatives, heads of structural units, members of the group responsible for the preparation of self-evaluation and QA manager. The panel also conducted class observations and resource observation.
The expert panel had professional talks with the managers, teaching staff and students of the Aps "Clothing design and Modeling", "Cooking" and "Computer Art Design".
Following the site visit, the expert panel will prepare a report against the ten institutional accreditation criteria, pointing out the strengths and weaknesses of the institution and providing relevant recommendations. Based on that report, the education institution will develop a follow-up plan with a clear schedule.
Next on, ANQA’s Accreditation Committee will make a decision whether to grant accreditation or reject it after the study of the document package and meetings with the education institution’s representatives and experts.
It should be noted that in 2023, the Ararat Regional State College was granted institutional accreditation for a period of four years.