What impact will the suspension of EQAR registration have on attracting foreign students? - Position of universities Uni
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 4:22 am
At the end of last year, it became known that the National Center for Quality Improvement in Education (EQAR) had its registration officially suspended. The reason was the center's inadequate work in one of the standards - independence. The Georgian side plans to appeal the decision and claims that the suspension of registration by EQAR will not create problems either locally or internationally.
Representatives of the sector have different positions and arguments. The rector of the University of Georgia says that EQAR was a crucial factor in attracting foreign students, and the cost of losing it would be much greater than gaining it.
"The education system is based on trust to the greatest extent, you have to trust the university, its diploma, the country where you are going to study. EQAR recognition itself has not had such a positive effect as its Switzerland business fax list loss will have a negative one. Imagine that the clinic you used to go to lost its license, this will have a very bad impact on you and your decision. Today it is difficult to express this in numbers, but we can say that in the long term it will have a very negative impact." - said Koka Topuria, Rector of the University of Georgia.
The suspension of EQAR registration is also viewed negatively at Caucasus University, although university president Kakha Shengelia says that it was not a decisive factor in the arrival of foreign students. Shengelia attributes the increase in interest in recent years to the influence of the Russia-Ukraine war.
"It's very bad that they stopped us, but there is no catastrophe in this and it cannot be, because it is not decisive for the arrival or non-arrival of foreign students. We didn't have any until 2019, but we all had foreign students."
In recent years, growth did not depend on this, it was due to the Russia-Ukraine war. This is not a political issue, mistakes were made that we lost it, everyone admits this, probably even the Ministry of Education, but it is not a tragedy. I am sure that our National Center for Education Quality will do everything to bring us back again. Since we are Europeans, it would be good if Georgia also had EQAR registration,” said Kakha Shengelia.
Representatives of the sector have different positions and arguments. The rector of the University of Georgia says that EQAR was a crucial factor in attracting foreign students, and the cost of losing it would be much greater than gaining it.
"The education system is based on trust to the greatest extent, you have to trust the university, its diploma, the country where you are going to study. EQAR recognition itself has not had such a positive effect as its Switzerland business fax list loss will have a negative one. Imagine that the clinic you used to go to lost its license, this will have a very bad impact on you and your decision. Today it is difficult to express this in numbers, but we can say that in the long term it will have a very negative impact." - said Koka Topuria, Rector of the University of Georgia.
The suspension of EQAR registration is also viewed negatively at Caucasus University, although university president Kakha Shengelia says that it was not a decisive factor in the arrival of foreign students. Shengelia attributes the increase in interest in recent years to the influence of the Russia-Ukraine war.
"It's very bad that they stopped us, but there is no catastrophe in this and it cannot be, because it is not decisive for the arrival or non-arrival of foreign students. We didn't have any until 2019, but we all had foreign students."
In recent years, growth did not depend on this, it was due to the Russia-Ukraine war. This is not a political issue, mistakes were made that we lost it, everyone admits this, probably even the Ministry of Education, but it is not a tragedy. I am sure that our National Center for Education Quality will do everything to bring us back again. Since we are Europeans, it would be good if Georgia also had EQAR registration,” said Kakha Shengelia.