On April 14-16, ANQA’s expert panel conducts external review at the Ararat State College.
The chair of the expert panel is Lilit Badalyan, PhD, Associate Professor, head of the Chair of Linguistics and Communication Theory at the Brusov State University. The members of the expert panel are Oleg Gevorgyan, deputy director for Science, Technological Cooperation and External Relations at the Institute of Information and Telecommunication Technologies and Electronics of the National Polytechnic University of Armenia, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor, Elina Grigoryan, Assistant Professor at the Department of Crop Processing Technologies, Armenian National Agrarian University, Karine Mkhitaryan, student at the Yerevan State College of Informatics. The process coordinator is Lilit Ghazaryan, specialist at ANQA’s Secretariat.
Prior to the site visit, the expert panel studied the education institution's self-evaluation report, the documents attached, as well as conducted class observations, resource observation and desk review.
As part of the external review, the expert panel held meetings with the education institution's management staff, the group responsible for the preparation of self-evaluation, students, alumni, employers, heads of divisions, teachers, the quality assurance manager and other stakeholders.
The expert panel will have "professional talks" with the managers, teaching staff and students of the Aps "Computing Equipment and Automated Systems Software", "Computer Art Design" and "Winemaking and Juice Production".
The process coming after the site visit is the preparation of an expert panel report, which points out the strengths and weaknesses of the institution and contains the recommendations of the expert panel. Based on that report, the education institution will prepare 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 studying the package of documents and holding meetings with the education institution’s representatives and experts.
It should be noted that in 2021, the Ararat State College was granted institutional accreditation for a period of four years.