The crucial role in external quality assurance procedures conducted by the Independent Kazakh Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (IQAA) is given to external experts with extensive working experience in professional fields, who contribute their knowledge and skills in the development of IQAA by representing various opinions and expertise. Since the very beginning of its work, IQAA has involved students, employers, and international experts in all of its peer reviews, which has allowed to involve all stakeholders in quality assurance procedures as well as to study international experience.
IQAA pays significant attention to training and systematic upgrading of qualifications of its external experts through training seminars, conferences and development of training materials.
The section “Experts” is created specially for IQAA external experts as well as potential individuals willing to become IQAA experts from national, international experts, representatives of employers and students. Information and materials presented in this section serve as the basis for effective work and self-development of IQAA external experts. Information for experts is systematically updated and improved in compliance with the new trends in the sphere of quality assurance.
The list of presented information for this section with links is given below:
2) IQAA Criteria for Selecting Experts
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