CENTER FOR ACCREDITATION AND INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH

The main objectives of the Centre are as follows:

To provide organisational, methodological, and informational support for the licensing and accreditation procedures of educational programmes;

To review, systematise, and monitor compliance with the regulatory documents of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan concerning licensing and accreditation;

To organise and prepare documentation required for licensing assessments of newly introduced fields of study and professional training;

To compile the necessary documentation for the accreditation of the University's educational programmes;

To submit applications for institutional and specialised accreditation, as well as for obtaining licences for new fields of professional training;

To plan and implement activities related to the accreditation and licensing of educational programmes and to submit proposals to the Accreditation Working Group regarding the feasibility of accrediting newly developed educational programmes;

To organise and coordinate accreditation procedures for entities engaged in scientific and/or scientific and technical activities, as well as for the University's research laboratories;

To organise and facilitate the licensing and state accreditation processes of the University's branches, including those operating outside the Republic of Kazakhstan;

To coordinate, in cooperation with the University's faculties, the preparation of self-assessment reports within accreditation procedures and the documentation required for licensing;

To organise and coordinate visits by external expert panels of accreditation agencies for the purpose of conducting external evaluations;

To conduct consultations and seminars for faculty and departmental staff on accreditation and licensing matters falling within the competence of the Centre;

To publish informational and methodological materials related to accreditation and licensing on the Centre's official website;

To participate in training courses, seminars, and conferences concerning the accreditation and licensing of educational programmes.

Functions of the Centre

In order to fulfil its objectives, the Centre performs the following functions:

Planning, providing organisational and methodological support for, and implementing accreditation and licensing procedures for educational programmes at the University;

Collecting, processing, and analysing information relating to accreditation and licensing at both the institutional level and the level of individual educational programmes;

Providing the University's structural units and faculties with methodological guidelines and tools for preparing and compiling accreditation and licensing documentation;

Collecting relevant information from the University's faculties and structural units for the preparation of institutional and specialised accreditation self-assessment reports;

Monitoring accreditation and licensing processes and providing advisory and consultancy support;

Preparing and disseminating informational and methodological materials aimed at increasing awareness among University staff and faculties of accreditation and licensing requirements, procedures, and standards;

Implementing institutional and specialised accreditation procedures for educational programmes, including: liaising with international and national accreditation agencies and organisations, conducting internal University monitoring of the preparation of educational programme self-assessment reports, overseeing the timely preparation of self-assessment reports and ensuring their compliance with established requirements;

Implementing licensing procedures for educational programmes, including: collecting, processing, and analysing information and data on new educational programmes submitted by faculties for the purpose of obtaining state licences; organising and monitoring the application process for obtaining new licences;

Providing organisational and methodological coordination of accreditation procedures for entities engaged in scientific and/or scientific and technical activities, as well as research laboratories. The preparation of specialised documentation and ensuring compliance with established scientific requirements shall be the responsibility of the Department of Science and Innovation;

Providing organisational support for the licensing and state accreditation processes of the University's branches, including:

preparing and compiling the required documentation;

liaising with the authorised state bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan and, where foreign branches exist, with the competent authorities of the respective foreign countries;

ensuring that the requirements of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the legislation of the countries in which the branches are located are duly taken into account;

monitoring compliance with established licensing and accreditation requirements and deadlines;

monitoring the fulfilment of licensing and accreditation conditions by the University's branches.