On October 16, 2018 the II Central Asian International Forum on Quality Assurance in Education was held in Astana, Kazakhstan.

More than 200 people from 15 countries took part in the event. Deputies of the Senate and Mazhilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan, vice-ministers of education of the Central Asian countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan), Rectors of universities of Kazakhstan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Belarus, representatives of employers and students spoke at the Forum. Representatives of the professional community were active participants of the Forum.

Karl Dittrich, President of the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR), Christoph Grolimund, President of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA), Heads of accreditation agencies from Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Latvia, Moldova and Russia were the key speakers.

V. Navodnov, Director of the National Centre for Public Accreditation, and G. Motova, Deputy Head of the National Centre for Public Accreditation, presented the reports at plenary sessions.

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The following issues were considered at plenary sessions: implementation of ESG 2015 in Central Asian countries, the role and influence of the Bologna Process on improving the education system, and international accreditation in the Central Asian Region.