On August 26 the official ceremony of signing the agreement on cooperation in quality assurance of higher education between the National Centre for Public Accreditation (Russia) and the Turkish Higher Education Quality Council (Turkey) was held.

On August 26-29, 2019 a Russo-Turkish seminar was held in the Turkish Higher Education Quality Council, THEQC (Ankara). The participants discussed the issues of developing cooperation in evaluation and quality assurance of higher education, coordination of approaches to evaluation, exchange of experts and holding joint events. The analysis of development of higher education systems in Russia and Turkey, particularities of infrastructure development, content and methods of education quality evaluation, review process and principles of work of review panels were of particular interest. The Russian Federation was represented by V. Navodnov, NCPA Director, and G. Motova, NCPA Deputy Director, and the Republic of Turkey was represented by Muzaffer Elmas, HEQC President, Sibel Aksu Yildirim, HEQC Vice-President, and THEQC staff.

On August 26 the official ceremony of signing the agreement on cooperation in quality assurance of higher education between the National Centre for Public Accreditation (Russia) and the Turkish Higher Education Quality Council (Turkey) was held. V. Navodnov, NCPA Director, and Muzaffer Elmas, THEQC President, signed the agreement. It provides bilateral cooperation on the issues of evaluation and accreditation of the study programmes and higher education institutions.