About EKKA

The Estonian Higher Education Quality Agency (EKKA) continues the work of the Estonian Higher Education Accreditation Centre and the Estonian Higher Education Qaulity Assessment Council that operated from 1997 to 2008. EKKA was established on January 1, 2009.

Mission

The mission of the Estonian Higher Education Quality Agency (EKKA) is to foster the quality of Estonian higher education, and to promote and disseminate the best quality assurance practices. Upon making assessment decisions, EKKA is independent and sovereign.

EKKA's main functions 

• To develop the principles and the procedure for conducting quality assessment of study programme groups and institutional accreditatio
• Institutional accreditation and quality assessment of study programme groups 
• Expert analyses of the right to conduct studies
• Training activities and counselling related to evaluation of and quality in higher education
• To make public the information related to evaluation of higher education
• To participate in international cooperation and to represent Estoniain issues concerning the quality of higher education

Organisation

EKKA comprises of the Bureau, which administers and organises EKKA's work, and EKKA Quality Assessment Council, whose main task is to make decisions on institutional accreditation of higher education institutions in Estonia and on quality assessment of their study programme groups.