The Annual International Conference of the Asia-Pacific Quality Network (APQN) “NEW HORIZONS: DISSOLVING BOUNDARIES FOR A QUALITY REGION” took place in Russia for the first time on May 26-27, 2017. The Conference, organized in cooperation with the National Centre for Public Accreditation, took place at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (www.аккредитация.рф).

114 participants from 27 countries who are representatives of expert and accreditation agencies of educational institutions and representatives of the Ministries of Education of the Asia-Pacific countries participated in the Conference.

Sub-themes of the plenary and parallel sessions were devoted to the issues of quality assurance and quality recognition in Higher Education, strategies and methods of cross-cultural education development, development of internal quality assurance system, elaboration of educational programmes, extension of education management in Higher Education, involvement of new tendency of global education, quality assurance of transnational qualifications, accreditation of joint educational programmes and new opportunities of universities for international integration.

In the framework of the Conference the participants were given an opportunity to present and publish works on the topics of the Conference. More information is available on the official website of the Conference www.apqnrussia.ncpa.ru.

Link for the news on the website of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Министерства образования и науки РФ