On June 23-26, as part of the institutional accreditation process, ANQA’s expert panel conducts external review at the Gegharkunik Regional State College.
The chair of the expert panel is Gayane Avetisyan, head of the Quality Assurance Department at the M. Nalbandyan State University of Shirak, Candidate of Geographical Sciences, Associate Professor. The members of the expert panel are Marine Galubyan, chief specialist at the Department of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs of the Artashat Municipality, economist-financier, Elen Harutyunyan, deputy dean at the Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Physics and teacher at the Chair of General Mathematics, National Polytechnic University of Armenia, Narek Karapetyan, student at the Department of Telecommunications and Signal Processing of the National Polytechnic University of Armenia.
The coordinator of the expert panel 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 desk review.
As part of the external review, the expert panel carried out class observations and observation of resources and state final examinations. The expert panel had meetings with the institution’s management staff, representatives of subdivisions, employers, members of the Governing Council, alumni, students, members of the Student Council, academic department, heads of chairs, teaching staff, group responsible for the preparation of self-evaluation and QA manager.
The expert panel had professional talks with the managers, teaching staff and students of the Aps "Computing Equipment and Automated Systems Software", "Social work " and "Accounting".
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 2024, the Gegharkunik Regional State College was granted conditional institutional accreditation for a period of two years .