On November 25, 2021 the APQN Academic Conference and Annual General Meeting was held. This year the topic of the conference was devoted to the challenges, which educational institutions and accreditation agencies from different countries faced during the pandemic. The topic was «COVID-19 – Response Mechanism and Impact on Quality Assurance for Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific Region».

On October 28 NCPA’s Deputy Director Galina Motova and Manager of International Office Marina Kurdiumova took part in the Steering Committee Meeting of the SAGRIS project.

On October 1-2, 2021 the V Central Asian International Forum «Higher Education Quality Assurance: Global Trends and Regional Aspects» was held. It was dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Independent Agency for Accreditation and Rating (IAAR), the Republic of Kazakhstan.

On September 2, 2021, a panel discussion «The Role of Students in Education Quality Evaluation» was held in the Office for Public Support of the party «Yedinaya Rossiya» (United Russia).