New Hungarian Higher
Education Act
On
The HAC informed ENQA about the
major changes in the new Act. The reply of the President of ENQA can be
accessed here.
Annual meeting of the HAC's International Advisory Board
The International Adviosory Board held its annual meeting at the HAC's offices on October 28-29, 2011. The main point of discussion was the draft higher education law, which foresees a restructuring of the HAC and, in the form available at the time of the meeting, no longer stipulates that the HAC is an independent body of experts as it has been by law since its foundation in 1993. The Board debated the question of independence in light of the European Standards and Guidelines. It also discussed the work of the HAC in the past year. The Board's Recommendations may be accessed here.
Staff study visit from the Polish UCA at the HAC
Two staff members from the Polish University Accreditation Commission spent two intensive days at the HAC secretariat on 12/13 September 2011. Paulina Kazmierczak és Joanna Kaluzna first presented a short introduction to the HAC staff about the work of the UCA. Secretary General Tibor Szántó provided a brief overview of the HAC, after which the visitors extensively discussed various phases of the HAC's operations with individual HAC staff members. Both parties found the visit very useful and informative.
Chinese delegation visits the HAC
A Chinese delegation visited the HAC on August 4, 2011. The seven visitors were from China's Academic Degrees and Graduate Education Development Center, headed by its Director General Professor Wu Boda . They were accompanied by Dr. Li Xinhua, head of the Education Section of the country's embassy in Hungary. HAC President Prof. György Bazsa described the Hungarian accreditation system. Questions regarding diploma recognition arose as well, given that the Academic Degrees Center also comprises a department for equivalence matters. HAC Secretary General Dr. Tibor Szántó, his deputy Éva Ruff, and Christina Rozsnyai also participated in the discussion.
CEE Network general assembly on 28 May, 2011
The CEE Network held an extraordinary general assembly on 28 May, 2011. The subject was the preparation of the network's legal registration in Düsseldorf, Germany. Of the previously 26 members from 19 countries, 18 organizations, among them the HAC, signed the founding Statutes. Other members can join any time to what is now CEENQA. The new president is Iring Wasser, from ASIIN, Germany, and vice-president is Todor Shopov of NEAA Bulgaria. The Secretariat continues to be at HAC, Hungary, and Christina Rozsnyai continues as Secretary General.
The network also held its annual workshop on 27 May, with three renowned speakers: Nick Harris and David Cairns, both formerly QAA UK, and Kaja Braathen from ECA and NVAO, The Netherlands. Two topics were discussed, the external evaluations of agencies in light of the European Standards and Guidelines (ESG), and the agencies' experiences with the evaluation of (international) joint programs.
Further information is available at www.ceenetwork.hu.
HAC International Advisory Board meeting
The International Advisory Board of the HAC held its annual meeting on 29-30 October 2010. The first day, with additional participants from the HAC's Hungarian Advisory Board and László Dux, Deputy Secretary of State for Higher Education, was devoted to a discussion about the concept of a new higher education law. On the second day, participants analyzed the HAC's work in the past year. Please read the Board Recommendations here.
The 10th Anniversary Meeting of the CEE Network
The Central and Eastern European Network of Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education held its biennial general assembly in Sofia May 28, 2010, where it celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Network. With five new members the CEE Network now has 26 member agencies from 18 countries and one international agency. More on www.ceenetwork.hu
HAC is moving
The HAC is moving to new premises on July 8-9, 2010.
Our new Address will be: 1013 Budapest, Krisztina krt. 39/B, 4th floor
Our phones and e-mails remain unchanged.
The office will open again on July 12 but please understand that for some days prior to and after the move we will not be able to respond to your mails and phone calls.
TEAM II project
The HAC has participated in the TEAM II project. The aim of the project, which was supported by the European Comission and coordinated by ECA, was to develop a methodology for the accreditation of international joint master's programs. As an outcome of the project, the HAC is developing its own methodology for the accreditation of international joint programs.
Another element of the project is the Qrossroads database. For now, the Hungarian higher education system is available there, but soon all accredited higher education isntitutions and their programs can be seen by linking on http://www.qrossroads.eu/home.
The presentations from the conference are available here: www.ecaconsortium.net/main/events/documents/joint-programmes:-too-many-cooks-in-the-kitchen/4
The newly elected HAC begins its three-year term
The new, 19-member HAC began its term on 1 February 2010. On 12 February it held its first plenary meeting and the members received their letters of appointment, signed by the Prime Minister. The members elected György Bazsa as their president for a second term. At the following meeting, on 26 February, the members set up the new standing committees. According to the 2009 amendment of the higher education act, these have been reduced to eight expert committees, grouped according to broad sets of disciplines.
HAC Delegates for the 2010-2012 Term
HAC International Advisory Board Meeting
The HAC International Advisory Board held its annual meeting in Budapest at the HAC offices on October 9-10, 2009. Based on the documents sent to the Board in advance and the discussions at the meeting, the Board formulated its Recommendations.
Secrretary General Re-elected as Vice-President of ENQA
HAC Secretary General Tibor Szántó was reelected to the post of vice-president at the ENQA general assembly on 28-29 September 2009, a position he has held since 2007. Dr. Szántó is also part of the ENQA Finance Committee, and the Membership Committee.
Expert Training Forum
On 25 September 2009 the HAC held a one-day training forum for all its external experts. Of the over 1200 invited experts over 200 took place in the event. The background documents are available in Hungarian on the Hungarian website.
Doctoral data base
Together with the Hungarian Doctoral Council, the HAC has set up a data base for the evaluation of doctoral schools. All phases of the evaluations are now conducted in electronic form (see www.doktori.hu)
The English translation of "The President's Report on the HAC's activities in 2008" can now be read here.
International Advisory Board meeting
The HAC’s Board held its meeting at the HAC offices on 23-24 November. It reviewed the HAC’s work in the past year and reflected on its external evaluation and Action Plan.
The Board’s Recommendations can be found here while the HAC’s Action Plan, as adopted at its plenary meeting on 5 December 2008 are accessible here.
The 3rd European Quality Assurance Forum in Budapest
Organized by the E4 (EUA, ENQA, ESU, EURASHE) the 3rd Quality Assurance Forum was held at Corvinus University in Budapest 20-22 November 2008. The main issues were the importance of engaging all university members in a common quality culture, and learning outcomes, which requires a new paradigm in approaching teaching and learning. A third main topic was university ranking, which is gaining popularity but which the participants overwhelmingly rejected as a quality assurance tool. Nevertheless – also in light of the call for a new ranking instrument by the French EU presidency – ranking should be steered into acceptable and realistic channels by considering the purpose and environment of the examined entity, and to allow for a variety of institutions for various needs.
For more details please go to http://www.eua.be/fileadmin/user_upload/files/Newsletter_new/EQAF08_Summary_2_.pdf.
Foreign visitors
Linking their visits to Budapest for the Quality Forum, Mark Hay the audit director of the Australian Universities Quality Agency AUQA and Karin Järplid Linde and Carin Olausson, staff members of the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education Högskoleverket visited the HAC offices for discussions with the HAC president and staff members. Their aim was to learn more about the HAC operations and plans and to present their own practices at the respective agencies.
HAC external evaluation and reconfirmation of ENQA membership
In the first half of 2008 the HAC underwent an external review by an international group of experts. This was the second such exercise, following the 2000 review, and will now be repeated every five years in line with the European Standards and Guidelines. Considering the review report ENQA reconfirmed HAC’s full membership at its general assembly in September 2008. The complete self-evaluation and evaluation document, including the HAC’s comments, can be found here.
Participation in international evaluation/accreditation commissions
HAC President Dr. György Bazsa will chair the external review team of the Romanian agency ARACIS in the spring of 2009.
HAC member Dr. János Csirik was invited to act as an expert reviewer for the German agency FIBAA. HAC staff member Christina Rozsnyai participates in the FIBAA commission for institutional, so-called “system” accreditation. She was also invited to the accreditation commission for quality audits at the Austrian agency AQA.
President’s report on the HAC’s work in 2007
The document can be accessed here.
Statistics on the HAC’s work in 2004-2008
Please link here
Reapplication for Hungarian accreditation recognition in the U.S.
The U.S. Department of Education, National Committee on Foreign Medical Education and Accreditation has again approached the Hungarian Ministry for Education and Culture with its extensive questionnaire for the purpose of recognizing HAC accreditation of Hungarian medical education in the United States.
New offices
The HAC has moved its offices to a new location in downtown Budapest: H-1061 Budapest, Király u. 16. The phone and fax numbers and electronic addresses remain the same.
HAC staff elected to ENQA and EUA
The ENQA general assembly in September 2007 has elected HAC Secretary General Tibor Szántó as its vice-president. Also in September of this year, staff member Christina Rozsnyai joins the EUA Institutional Evaluation Programme's Steering Committee.
New HAC membership
The Prime Minister's letters of appointment were presented to the new membership of the HAC at its inaugural meeting on January 5, 2006. The newly elected president of the HAC is György Bazsa, professor of chemistry at Debrecen University, a former rector there and onetime president of the Hungarian Rectors' Conference.
An overview
of the HAC's work in 2006 can be read here.
Seminar in Albania
On 26-27 September 2006 Tibor Szántó and Christina Rozsnyai held a two-day training seminar for university representatives and quality assurance experts in Tirana. The seminar focused on quality assurance methodologies and practices, country models and history, the Bologna process and the European Standards and Guidelines.
New Higher
Education Act
Parliament has passed the new Higher
Education Act on November 28, after making the revisions demanded by the
Constitutional Court. The Act had passed once before in May but objections were
submitted to the Court at that time. The Act was published on December 14,
2005, it will come into force March 1, 2006. To read about
the main elements
in the 2005 Higher Education Act and HAC tasks click here.
(17.01.2006)
CEE Network Publication
“Mapping external quality assurance in Central and Eastern Europe. A
comparative survey by the CEE Network” by Stefanie Hofmann, ACQUIN, was
published in the series ENQA Occasional Papers, No. 8. A limited number of
copies may be ordered free of charge by writing to Christina Rozsnyai at
rozsnyai@mab.hu or by linking to www.enqa.eu/pubs.lasso.
(05.07.06)
CEE Network General Assembly
The CEE Network held its annual workshop
together with its biennial General Assembly on 29-30 May 2006 in
Schloss Retzhof near Graz, Austria. Peter Williams, president of ENQA, gave a
presentation about that organisation in anticipation of the CEE Network joining
ENQA as an affiliate organisation. The aim of the workshop was to
discuss the developments of member agencies toward attaining the European
Standards since the CEE Network Survey was
taken. The General
Assembly elected Pavol Navrat, Slovakia, as its new chairman and
steering committee members Galina Motova, Russia, Ivan Panayatov,
Bulgaria, Aurelija Valeikiene, Lithuania (also Treasurer), and Marek
Wasowicz, Poland.
For more information please visit www.ceenetwork.hu.
(05.07.06)
EU project in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Council of Europe and the European
Commission are carrying out this joint project to assist Bosnia and Herzegovina
fulfil its commitments from the Bologna Process and the Bergen Communiqué (May
2005). More information on the project can be read here.
(05.07.06)
International Advisory Board meeting
The HAC International Advisory Board
held its 2006 meeting on May 30-31, 2006 at Debrecen University. The University
had just concluded its external evaluation by the HAC and the Board met with
members of the evaluation team and with evaluated university participants to
learn about their experiences in the evaluation process. The Board’s
Recommendations for this and the HAC’s work can be read here.
(05.07.06)
Bachelor/Master
Programs
As
Hungarian higher education is in the process of switching from the traditional
college and university degree programs to the Bachelor and Master system, over
600 new Bachelor programs will be launched in September 2006. At the same time,
the old programs will be phased out, with new students applying to Bachelor
programs only after this date. Until the end of 2005, the HAC has evaluated 778
Bachelor program applications, 623 of them positively. The Minister of
Education has overridden 41 negative HAC decisions. By the end of 2005, the HAC
evaluated 32 Master program applications.
(17.01.2006)
CEE Network workshop
The Central
and Eastern European Network of Quality Assurance Agencies held its annual
Steering Committee meeting May 29, 2005 in Poznan, Poland. Preceding it, on May
28, was a workshop. Its main theme was the survey, conducted by Dr. Stefanie
Hofmann of the CEE Network member agency ACQUIN, based on two questionnaires
filled out by 16 of the Network's 20 member agencies on their accreditation
practices. The benchmark were the new standards of ENQA. The goal of the survey
is to work out a methodology for the mutual accreditation between member
agencies, in line with the Bologna process. Click here to read the Minutes of the workshop.
(27/06/05)
Meeting of the
International Advisory Board
The
International Advisory Board of the HAC held its annual meeting on 15-16 April
2005. Only five of the Board members were able to attend the meeting this year.
On Friday afternoon the members met with the HAC presidium to discuss presidium
activities, HAC tasks, problems related to the introduction of Bachelor and
Master programs in Hungary, the second stage of parallel accreditation of
selected disciplines, and procedures on professorial appointments. At the
Saturday meeting the Board discussed the new higher education act and the HAC's
work in the past year. The Board's Recommendations formulated after the meeting
can be read here. The
reflections of the HAC to the Board's Recommendations can be read here.
(27/06/05)
Wellington
INQAAHE
held its 8th biannual conference, titled "Quality, Assurance and Diversity",
March 29-April 1, 2005 in Wellington, New Zealand. Participants were especially
interested in transnational education and the value of quality assurance. With
regard to the first topic, the question of assuring quality on the part of countries
importing educational provision came to the fore, while the value of quality
assurance hinges on the dissemination of the outcomes of such exercises and the
broad propagation of good practice. At the General Assembly linked to the
conference the By-laws were amended. Meta-accreditation agencies can now become
full members, and INQAAHE will co-ordinate the external evaluation of agencies
on request. HAC Secretary General Tibor Szántó, a Board member of INQAAHE, gave
a presentation at the conference on the subject. The assembly also approved
changes to the Guidelines of Good Practice.
(05/11/05)
TEEP II
The HAC
participates in the so-called TEEP (Transnational European Evaluation Project)
II, which evaluates the quality of joint Master's programs supported by the
Erasmus Mundus project of the EU. Three joint Master's programs have been
selected, each is taught at seven universities in five countries, and the
students have to attend at least one semester in a partner country. The outcome
of TEEP II will be the elaboration of a European-wide accreditation procedure.
(05/11/05)
Parallel
accreditation of degree programs
Following
the successful completion of the pilot project on the parallel evaluation of
History and Psychology degree programs in Hungary, the HAC is continuing to
evaluate all programs in medicine, veterinary medicine, dentistry,
pharmaceutics and law.
(25/01/05)
ENQA General Assembly
ENQA held its second,
extraordinary General Assembly at the Frankfurt airport on November 4, 2004.
The HAC was represented by President László Fesüs and Secretary General Tibor
Szántó. At the General Assembly ENQA dissolved its earlier network
configuration and established itself as an association. Its new name is the
European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA), which is
being registered in Finland. The HAC is a founding member of the new
association. The General Assembly confirmed the Board members who had been
elected on an interim basis at the June 4 General Assembly in Stockholm, and
include Tibor Szántó (for a three year term). The re-elected chairman, for a
one-year term, is Christian Thune (DK), with Peter Williams (UK) and Séamus
Purséil (IRL) as vice-chairs. Kimmo Hämäläinen will continue as Secretary (SF).
(16/11/04)
The CEE Network General Assembly in Prague
The CEE Network held is
biennial General Assembly on 23-24 October 2004 in Prague, hosted by the Czech
Accreditation Commission and with the support of the Ministry of Education,
Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic.
The meeting was preceded by a workshop. The Vice-Minister for Education of the
Czech Republic, Dr. Petr Kolar, welcomed the participants. The workshop theme
was the survey of CEE Network member agencies, begun by Dr. Stefanie Hofmann.
The survey is a stocktaking exercise on the basic practices and the procedural
and legislative frameworks of member agencies, the expected outcome of which is
to identify possible pathways to mutual recognition. The frame of reference,
and thus the focus of the two discussion groups, were the proposed ENQA
criteria for membership.
Two applications for new CEE Network membership were discuss: the Austrian
Fachhochschulrat (FHR), established in 1993, was approved as a full member of
the CEE Network by unanimous vote, while the Austrian Quality Assurance Agency
(AQA), which began operating only in the beginning of 2004, was granted
observer status until the next General Assembly in 2006.
(28/10/04)
New International Advisory Board
At its pleanry session in September 2004 the HAC elected its new International
Advisory Board. The Board now has nine members, six of whom have been elected
for a second term and three are newly elected members. For the full list and
details please click here.
(19/10/04)
Bachelor/Master degrees launched in Hungary
At its March 26 plenary meeting the HAC passed a resolution on the national
qualification requirements for new Bachelor and Master programs. At the meeting
it also discussed the accreditation requirements for launching new Bachelor
programs, which it accepted as a resolution at its plenary meeting of July 2,
2004. So far, 60 applications for new Bachelor programs were submitted (38 were
accepted, 21 were conditionally accepted where the HAC asked for additional
documents, and one was rejected.)
(20/07/04)
Meeting of the International Advisory Board
The International Advisory Board of the HAC held its annual meeting on May 28
and 29, 2004. On Friday afternoon the Board joined the HAC's regular plenary
meeting, where they participated in the discussion on the evaluation team's
reports on the parallel accreditation of history and psychology programs in
Hungary. On Saturday the Board held its regular meeting. Please link here to read their Recommendations.
(20/07/04)
Conference in Greifswald
Staff member Christina Rozsnyai participated at a conference on July 1-2, 2004
in Greifswald, Germany, organized the Ernst Moritz Arndt University in the
framework of their project BLK-Verbundprojekt Leistungspunkte that was titled
"Credits after Bologna and Berlin. An Instrument for Quality
Assurance?" The paper will appear in a publication on the conference
issued by the project.
(20/07/04)
New full members in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
HAC Chairman László Fésüs, HAC plenum members Csaba Pléh, László
Hatvani, Gábor Makara B. and Ernő Zalai have been granted full
membership in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Congratulations!
(25.05.2004.)
CEE Network General Assembly
The CEE Network will hold its next General Assembly in Prague on October 23-24,
2004. Attached to the conference will be a workshop, whose subject is to
discuss the main topics in the CEE Network survey of its member agencies.
Participants will provide input for the focus of the ensuing report on quality
assurance and accreditation procedures and practices in CEE. Please click here
for the full program and registration.
(24.05.2004.)
The Second Cycle of Institutional Accreditation
In 2004 the HAC begins its second cycle of evaluating and accrediting all
higher education institutions in Hungary, which it is required to do by law at
least every eight years. Click
here to find the outline for the procedure.
(24.05.2004.)
Discussion of the draft Higher Education Act
On request by the Ministry of Education, in March 2004, the HAC has discussed
the draft outline for the new HE Act and submitted its comments to the
Ministry.
(15.04.2004.)
New Bachelor Study Programs
At its March plenary meeting, the HAC passed a resolution on how to deal with
applications for Bachelor study programs, some of which will be launched for
the first time in Hungary in September 2005. (As a pilot exercise, Bachelor
programs in information science have been accredited and will launch at several
institutions in September 2004.) The HAC has set down the requirements for
applications submitted for preliminary accreditation, required for launching
new programs, and has proposed a timetable for working out the applications.
Each Bachelor study program will be worked out jointly by expert committees set
up by the Conferences on Higher Education, and the proposals will be discussed
in an academic forum prior to submission to the Ministry. The applications can
be submitted jointly or by individual institutions to the Ministry, which
forwards them to the HAC for accreditation. The following documents are
available on the HAC's Hungarian website:
1. Proposed action plan
2. Accreditation requirements
for establishing a new program
3. Formal and content
requirements for applications for establishing a new program
4. Application evaluation form
5 Application review procedure
(15.04.2004.)
First meeting of the newly appointed body of the HAC
At the 16 January 2004 inaugural meeting of the HAC for the new term, Deputy
Secretary of State Béla Mang presented the HAC members their mandates signed by
the Prime Minister. The meeting continued with reports by the outgoing
President Pál Michelberger and Secretary General Tibor Szántó about the HAC's
past three-year term. After that the HAC members elected a new president,
László Fésüs. Professor Fésüs holds a PhD in medicine and a doctorate from the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences in biology, and is a Corresponding Member of the
Academy. He was rector of Debrecen Medical University in 1999 and rector of the
newly merged Debrecen University in 2000/01. In addition to his distinguished
professional background he has been active in higher education strategy, most
recently as chair of the Bologna Committee of the Hungarian Rectors'
Conference, and has participated as visiting team member in accreditation
procedures of the HAC. The HAC congratulates its new President and expresses
its thanks to outgoing President Pál Michelberger for his work at the HAC in
the past term
(26.01.2004.)
Parallel accreditation of study programs
HAC committees commissioned to develop an evaluation methodology for the
parallel evaluation of study programs have submitted detailed recommendations
concerning study programs in History and Psychology. Relevant self-evaluation
guidelines, that have been set up based on experts' opinions have been finalized
and are available in Hungarian here.
(15.12.2003.)
ANECA
The HAC is concluding an agreement of mutual cooperation with the Spanish National
Agency for Quality Evaluation and Accreditation ANECA.
(03.12.2003)
ENQA Workshop on Accreditation
HAC staff member Christina Rozsnyai participated at the workshop held in Rome
13-15 November 2003, where she spoke in two working groups about the recent
changes and developments in Hungarian accreditation and the organization of the
HAC. The workshop focused on accreditation models in Europe, especially in
light of the strengthened role of accreditation following the ministers'
conference in Berlin. For more information link to http://www.enqa.net/workshops.lasso.
(03.12.2003)
CEE Network News
The CEE Network held its Steering Committee meeting in Bucharest, Romania on 1
November 2003. The following day there was a workshop, one key outcome of which
was a draft Statement of the CEE Network concerning the network member's
position vis-a-vis the Bologna process with regard to quality assurance. The
final Statement, as approved by the CEE Network members, will be sent to the
Bologna Follow-up Group. For more information go to http://www.ceenetwork.hu.
(03.12.2003)
ENQA working groups
In accordance with the mandate given to ENQA in the Berlin Communiqué, ENQA has
set up two working groups. One focuses on exploring ways to ensure an adequate
peer review system for quality assurance and/or accreditation agencies or
bodies which would lead to god internal quality assurance practices of ENQA's
member agencies. HAC General Secretary Tibor Szántó participates in this
working group. The other working group's aim is to develop an agreed set of
standards, procedures and guidelines for external quality assurance.
(03.12.2003)
Projekt Qualitätssicherung
HAC honorary president András Róna-Tas participated at the conference on 20-21
November 2003, organized by the "Projekt Qualitätssicherung" of the
German Rectors' Conference, which focused on the new challenges for quality
assurance after the ministers' meeting in Berlin. Dr. Róna-Tas spoke about
developments in Central and Eastern Europe.
(03.12.2003)
CEE Network News
On 21-22 October 2003HAC staff member Christina Rozsnyai, who acts as the CEE
Network coordinating secretary, was asked to speak about history and recent
developments of the CEE Network, and quality assurance in the region, in Bonn,
where, under coordination of the German organization InWent a seminar was held
for the elected members of the Central American Accreditation Council and
representative of Accreditation Agencies and Systems of Central America.
(03.12.2003)
Berlin Communiqué
As the latest stage of the Bologna process, the conference of the European
ministers of education was held in Berlin, September 19, 2003. The conference
concluded its intermediate priorities and defined measures to be taken for
further enhancement of the harmonisation aimed by the Bologna process in the
Berlin Communiqué. The full
text of the communiqué can be downloaded here.
(01.10.2003.)
ENQA General Assembly in Budapest
This year's annual general assembly of ENQA (European Network of Quality
Assurance in Higher Education) was held in Budapest (Hotel Mercure), on
September 29-30. For more information, including the minutes of the meeting,
please visit the ENQA
homepage
(08.09.2003.)
High national decorations to HAC members
HAC honorary chair András Róna-Tas and HAC members Gábor Makara
and Zoltán Szász have been decorated with the Officer's Cross of the
Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic on August 20. Congratulations!
(27.08.2003.)
Recommendations by the International Advisory Board
The annual meeting of the International Advisory Board of HAC took place on May
17. 2003. The negotiations thematically followed the topics highlighted in the
annual report of HAC. As a conclusion of the meeting, the Board published its recommendations.
(12.08.2003.)
International recognition for Hungarian medical higher education
The US organization for foreign medical higher education and accreditation
granted an additional 6 years of accreditation to the Hungarian medical universities
in March 2003. Due to this recognition, American and Hungarian exchange
students may receive sufficient scholarships in the partner country and the
credits earned during the exchange program can be recognized by the home
university. The recognition of diplomas is legislated on the state level, and
as such, they are not in the board's scope of authority.
(10.07.2003.)