When the Accreditation Council issues an accreditation, it may attach conditions to it. In its decision, it specifies the deadline and means of the verification of fulfilment of conditions. The higher education institution must submit its report on the fulfilment of conditions to the Accreditation...
The Higher Education Act (HEdA) (Article 3 paragraphs 1 and 3) stipulates that the Swiss Agency of Accreditation and Quality Assurance (AAQ) and other Swiss or foreign accreditation agencies recognised by the Swiss Accreditation Council may carry out accreditation. The admission requirements and the procedure...
According to the Fees Ordinance of the Swiss Accreditation Council (Article 3), generally cost-covering fees are charged. In the case of institutional accreditation, the public higher education institutions are only charged the direct costs, the private higher education institutions the direct and indirect costs. The direct...
According to the Higher Education Act (HEdA) (Article 15 Paragraph 1), the Swiss Accreditation Council is the decision-making body for accreditation. It bases its decision on the application of the agency, the statement of the higher education institution, the report of the group of experts...
First of all, it should be emphasised that at the level of Federal Legislation, not all private higher education institutions are obliged to be accredited under the Higher Education Act (HEdA), but only those that wish to use a designation protected by the HEdA (Article...
Programme accreditations under the Higher Education Act (HEdA) (Article 28 paragraph 3) are voluntary. They are only possible for those institutions that are already institutionally accredited (HEdA Article 28 Paragraph 2 Letter c)....
According to the HEdA Accreditation Ordinance (Article 9 Paragraph 7), the higher education institution chooses one official language (German, French or Italian) as the language of the procedure. It may also submit the documents used for the procedure in English. But even in this case,...
The accreditation is valid for a period of 7 years. Since a procedure duration of up to two years must be expected, higher education institutions are recommended to start the process of the renewal of accreditation 5 years after the last accreditation....
No, the same standards apply to all higher education institutions. The consideration of the specific profile is, however, taken into account within the standards, which is ensured by a group of experts suitably composed for the respective procedure....
No, the Higher Education Act (HEdA) (Article 5 Paragraph 1) requires the unity of research and teaching for higher education institutions....