IREG-6 Conference Academic Rankings and Advancement of Higher Education-Lessons from Asia and other Regions Taipei will be held on 18-20 April 2012.

The INQAAHE Members' Forum of 2012 will be held on Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 April in Melbourne, Australia.

4th Annual International Symposium on University Rankings and Quality Assurance will be held in Brussel, Belgium on 12 April 2012.

The reform of external quality assurance in Austrian Higher Education, based on the Federal Act of Quality Assurance (Hochschul-Qualitätssicherungsgesetz – HS-QSG), entails the establishment of the Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation Austria, based in Vienna. The tasks of the Agency include the development and the management of external quality assurance procedures in accordance with national and international standards.