IMHE General Conference 2012  will be held on 17-19 September in Paris. The 2012 Conference will focus on the challenges of attaining and sustaining mass higher education, in an increasingly competitive and international context.

On November 29, 2011 the Russian News & Information Agency RIA Novosti held a press conference on the theme “Methods and outcomes of quality assessment of educational programs in Higher Professional Education”.

The Sixth Annual Conference of Experts in Higher Education "Implementation of the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance Systems" took place in Moscow on 11-12 November 2011.

Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics (MESI) has become the first Russian institution of higher education which has successfully undergone the procedure of external review with the use of European technologies.