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ECBE is delighted to announce that Horizons, has had its Bachelor's program in BBA in Global Business (1st cycle), its Master's program in MBA in Global Innovation and Change Management (2nd cycle), MBA in International Consulting (2nd cycle), MBA in International Marketing (2nd cycle), MBA in International Management (2nd cycle), and its doctoral program in DBA in Innovation and Creativity (3rd cycle), DBA in International Business (3rd cycle), DBA in International Business Communication (3rd cycle), PhD in International Entrepreneurship (3rd cycle), PhD in International Leadership (3rd cycle) accredited for six years. An ECBE review team conducted a full review in December 2025 and January 2026. The Review Report shows that the institution fully complies with 3 standards and substantially complies with the other 4 standards. As such, the Board of Commissioners decided to grant accreditation for 6 years. All accreditations will run until September 2032. The reports, and details about the institution's accreditation status are available.
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ECBE announces the membership of the Swiss Institute of Technology and Entrepreneurship, Geneva, Switzerland, from June 15, 2025.
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ECBE announces the membership of the American Management University, Paris, France, from May15, 2025.
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ECBE is currently seeking to appoint 2 Senior Reviewers to lead its accreditation teams. Reviewers must have:
- A track record of teaching, research and/or supervision in the fields of business, management or economics, together with suitable academic qualifications
- Fluency in English
- Accomplished writing skills
- Cooperation and communication skills Experience of cooperation with quality assurance agencies in the capacity of institutional/programme evaluation expert
- Experience in HEI administration/management
- Familiarity with Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education (ESG) 2015
Senior Reviewers will organize the team's work, liaise with institutions regarding accreditation requirements, and chair panel meetings.
To apply, interested candidates should send a CV and cover letter to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by the end of 15th April 2025.
Further information is available here.
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ECBE is delighted to announce that Alma Mater Europaea, has had its Bachelor's program in Management of Business Systems (1st cycle) and its Master's program in European Business MA Studies (2nd cycle) accredited for six years. An ECBE review team, led by Prof. Dr. Tornike Khoshtaria, conducted a full online review in April 2024. The Review Report shows that the institution fully complies with almost all standards. As such, the Board of Commissioners decided to grant accreditation for 6 years. All accreditations will run until September 2030. The reports, and details about the institution's accreditation status are available.
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ECBE is delighted to announce that Mendel University in Brno has had its Bachelor's, Master's, and PhD programs in Economics and Management re-accredited for six years. An ECBE review team, led by Prof. Dr. Tornike Khoshtaria, conducted a full online review in March 2024. The extended 49-page Review Report shows that the institution fully complies with almost all standards. As such, the Board of Commissioners decided to grant accreditation for 6 years. All accreditations will run until September 2030. The reports, and details about the institution's accreditation status are available.
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New member: International Business Academy, London (UK)
ECBE announces the membership of the International Business Academy, London, from July 1st, 2024.
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ECBE is delighted to announce that London American City College has had its Advanced Diploma in Business Administration and Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration re-accredited for a period of 6 years. The institution also received the first accreditation for its Bachelor and Masters programs in Business Administration. In addition to this, LACC become the first institution to receive Institutional Accreditation from ECBE under its new scheme. All accreditations will run until September 2029, and the reports can be found here.
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From academic year 2023-2024 onwards, ECBE will offer institutional accreditation on top of program accreditation
ECBE has launched a new institutional accreditation that can be secured in addition to program accreditation. The new method confirms that the institutional policies, processes, and procedures to support its Higher Education are fit for purpose, comprehensive, and consistently applied. Institutions securing this accreditation have demonstrated that they have appropriate arrangements in place concerning academic governance, learning resources, teaching and assessment, and student support. It, therefore, allows institutions to provide stakeholders with assurance about institutional management and systems and the provider's commitment to quality improvement.
ECBE’s philosophy is that quality begins at the program level. Institutional accreditation is therefore only offered as an addition to program accreditation. You can find out more about accreditation fees here. Institutions must also be members of ECBE to apply for accreditation. More general membership benefits include networking, support, access to member events and publications, free places at the ECBE annual conference and a regular newsletter showcasing international quality assurance developments and member news. Further membership information, including fees, is available here.
Please submit expressions of interest in institutional accreditation to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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A major strand of our new Strategic Plan is to support our current and growing membership. In order to do that we’ve been working hard to better define the value proposition for members receive when they are part of ECBE. To assist with that we’ve produced this short Membership Guide that showcases those benefits. Please familiarise yourself with its contents and if you want to take advantage of any of the benefits listed please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Alternatively, contact a member of the Executive Committee to discuss your needs and we’ll be more than happy to assist.
You can download the document here.
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After the consultation of all stakeholders, as announced in the news item of November 18th, 2022, ECBE management published the Strategic Plan 2022-2025.
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Register for FREE to the 2023 Annual Conference, 25th & 26th May (via Zoom)
We wrote to all member institutions recently to announce the 2023 Annual Conference. Hopefully colleagues have shared that information with you already. However, it’s not too late to register and we have an absolutely fantastic programme on offer. Keynote speakers include international quality assurance expert Lucien Bollaert (Ghent University) and Asnate Kažoka (AIC, the Latvian Quality Assurance Agency). The programme also includes sessions for PhD researchers, university managers, academic colleagues and anyone with an interest in quality assurance. Attendance is COMPLETELY FREE for all academics, staff and students from member institutions. So please share this newsletter with your whole University community. All you have to do to register is email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with your name and institution.
Download the full conference programme, speaker biographies and joining instructions
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Lucien Bollaert, International QA expert, Ghent University
Keynote 2: Beyond the ESG - Perspectives on Changing Standards
Lucien Bollaert is independent international QA expert and visiting professor on QA systems. Currently he is member of the Quality Education Board of Ghent
University assessing programmes with a new IQA system he helped to develop as well as the next one, and involved in its European University Alliance, ENLIGHT.
He is also member of the Flemish Higher Education Commission, member of the Portuguese A3ES Science Council, and leading IQA expert in the World Bank project on reforming QA in Uzbekistan.
Recently he was member of the institutional review teams for the Irish QQI, being a former member of its Policy and Strategy Committee, for HEA, and for Louvain University mid-term review. He is the author of an inspiring best-seller, “A Manual for IQA in HE - Looking for a new quality in HE in a new world” (EURASHE: Brussels, 2019, 2nd edition) and of peer- re-viewed articles. In 2020 he was co-author of the “Guide for effective Stakeholders’ Involvement in Quality Assurance”. He is a keynote speaker on QA, Quality Culture, Strategy and Governance of HEIs, LOs and QFs at yearly international conferences such as EQAF, of which he is a co-founder, and the Eurasian QA Forum. After being member of the ESG (2005) E4 group, he became vice-chair of EQAR’s Register Committee (2008-2016).
He was board member of the NVAO, ECA, AEQES and EQ-Arts. He has been on technical assistance Missions in Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Tunisia and Ukraine. He was also member of EQF 1st expert committee.
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Asnate Kažoka, Head of Development and International Cooperation Unit, Academic Information Centre (AIC), Latvia
Keynote 1: Institutional and Programmatic Standards
Asnate Kažoka currently serves as the Head of Development and International Cooperation Unit for the Latvian Quality Agency for Higher Education which is the national body responsible for quality assurance in higher education in Latvia. She has been involved in development and revision of all assessment guidelines and methodologies used by the agency. Her previous experience includes a position at the Quality Management and Audit Department of the University of Latvia where she was responsible for developing and maintaining internal quality management system of the university. She has been involved in higher education policy discussions on the national and European level and acted as national Bologna expert. She serves as external expert for a number of quality assurance agencies in Europe and has performed programme, cluster and institutional reviews. She also cooperates with the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) and performs reviews of quality assurance agencies.
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Next year will be busy for ECBE members as we start implementing the Strategic Plan
We also will launch our new webinar series and undertake a number of accreditation visits. In addition, next Fall we intend to bring together the Heads of all member institutions for a meeting in Brussels to provide you with a strategic update and discuss key developments across the agency. Please take the opportunity to place these events in your diary and we will write to you with further details shortly:
- Extraordinary AGM - 1st April 2023
- Annual Conference - 25th & 26th May 2023
- AGM - 29th June 2023
- Heads of Institution Meeting (Brussels) - 8th September 2023
- Reviewer Training - 11th September 2023
- Webinar Series for 2023/24 launches - 9th October
All events will take place online unless specified otherwise.
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We are preparing a new strategy, and we need your help.
We are launching this newsitem in the midst of an exciting new period of development at the agency. The coming months will see us prepare and launch our new strategy and advance a broad programme of work surrounding our brand, value proposition for members and the development of new standards. We are also in the process of refining our programme accreditation process to make it more accessible for member institutions. In the coming months we look forward to sharing more detailed insight into this work.
Central to these developments is the construction and delivery of ECBE’s new strategic plan to cover the period up to and including 2025. With that in mind we have launched a consultation period and are inviting stakeholders to engage with the process. A range of potential themes have been identified and the Board of Directors is eager to hear from member institutions and others about what they believe the organisation’s priorities should be for the next 4 years. The deadline for taking part in the consultation is 16th December 2022.
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We are delighted to announce that Dr. Tornike Khoshtaria has been appointed as a Senior Reviewer.
Dr Khoshtaria is currently Associate Professor of Marketing and Dean of Healthcare Economics and Management Faculty at University Geomedi. An experienced reviewer for ECBE, Tornike has also worked for the Kosovo Accreditation Agency (KAA) as well as for agencies in Latvia, Kazakhstan and his native Georgia. We hope you will join us in congratulating Dr Khoshtaria as he assumes his leadership role within the organisation.
Consult Tornike's profile.
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