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9-645: The British Accreditation Council has been a member of Enqua since 2015, became a member of INQAAHE in 2006 and has a memorandum of agreement with the Quality Assurance Agency . The Chief Executive of the BAC is a member of the British Council ’s Accreditation Scheme Advisory Committee. The British Accreditation Council is a stakeholder of the Federation of Awarding Bodies . It also a onto

18-799: The Bologna process asked ENQA to elaborate "an agreed set of standards, procedures and guidelines" for higher education. The resulting European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance (ESG) was adopted by the Bologna Process Ministers in 2005 and was revised in 2015. ENQA worked with the other "E4" agencies, the European University Association (EUA), the European Association of Institutions in Higher Education (EURASHE) and

27-734: The British Council and the Council of Validating Universities. ENQA The European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education ( ENQA ), formerly the European Network for Quality Assurance in Higher Education , was established to represent quality assurance and accreditation organisations from the European Higher Education Area and internationally. In 2003, the Ministers of

36-729: The British Council and the Kosovo Government. The findings of that project were published in a report in July 2008, which was fully endorsed by the Kosovo Government. In 2012 the organisation was commissioned along with CFE by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to provide a comprehensive picture of provision by privately funded institutions operating in the UK higher education (HE) sector. The British Accreditation Council inspects and accredits around 250 organisations within

45-697: The European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR) since 2015 . The charitable objectives of the organisation are: As well as assisting law enforcement in cases of potential fraud, the British Accreditation Council has provided evidence on the private sector to the UK parliament . In 2008, the charity undertook a research project on private further and higher education in Kosovo , as requested by

54-527: The European Students Union (ESU), to establish the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR), which makes available a validated list of higher education quality assurance agencies which adhere to the ESG, and reduces the risk of bodies which purport to grant accreditation without rigorous review. EQAR is composed of the founding E4 bodies, government members (any state which

63-407: The UK and overseas. An inspection of a private college assesses four main areas: As well as private colleges such as Hult International Business School , the charity inspects training providers such as Crown Agents . In October 2012, it announced that it would also inspect and accredit online colleges. Non-UK colleges accredited by the organisation include, City College (international faculty of

72-530: The UK were only eligible for BAC accreditation if they offered higher education courses and had a formal validation agreement or other link with a UK higher education institution, awarding body or BAC-accredited college. In October 2012, a new accreditation scheme was launched for certain overseas institutions that did not meet these criteria. Inspection reports are considered by the Accreditation Committee, which includes representatives from

81-700: The University of Sheffield) , AKMI Athens Metropolitan College, AKTO (Art & Design), American University of Culture & Education (AUCE), BCA (Business College Athens), HTMi, Hotel & Tourism Management Institute, IMI University Centre, Independent Science & Technology (IST) Studies, International University College, Sofia, Mediterranean College - Athens, Mediterranean College - Thessaloniki, New York College, Athens-SBS, New York College, Thessaloniki, Rushmore Business School, University of New York in Prague and VUZF University. Until October 2012, colleges outside

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