Accrediting procedure

1. The institution submits a written application for program accreditation to the Director of the RAEE Accreditation Center (AC RAEE). In the application the institution must indicate the title and the code*of the program to be accredited. If the institution seeks accreditation for several programs, the title and the code of each program must be clearly indicated. The request is subject to initial analysis if the title of the qualification contains the words “engineer”, “technology”. The analysis of the request is done collegially by the RAEE AC Board of Directors consisting of 4 persons: AC Director, AC Deputy Director and 2 members. The members of the AC Board of Directors do not have a right to vote on the questions of initial screening of the HEI’s application that is in their sphere of interest. To avoid the perceived conflict of interest and to ensure the open and fair discussion of the application these members of the Board are leaving the meeting room during the session.
   The request can be denied on the following reasons:
   • Incorrect filling in of the request form.
   • The program is not included in the state list educational programs.
   • The program is not included to the list of engineering qualifications of the Russian Federation Ministry of Labor.
   • The HEI lacks the federal license and state accreditation.
   • The information about the educational program is not available on the HEI’s web-site.
   
   The HEI has the right to consider the remarks and repeat the request. In case of disagreement with the RAEE AC Board of Directors decision on the denial of the request, HEI appeal in writing to the Chair of the RAEE Accreditation Board. The appellation should contain the reasons why the negative decision of the RAEE AC is wrong (due to the factual mistakes or due to incompliance to the document “Accreditation Criteria and Procedure”). Upon the receipt of the appellation the Chair of the RAEE AB appoints three or more members of the RAEE AC as an Appellation Commission. The Appellation Commission to work out its’ recommendations analyses written materials presented by the HEI and the RAEE AC. The Appellation Commission meetings are conducted in private; the presence of the representatives of the HEI or the RAEE AC is prohibited. The decision of the Appellation Commission is final decision of the RAEE.
   
   
2. The RAEE AC Director informs the HEI on the decision taken not later than in 15 days upon the final decision was made.
   
   
3. The RAEE AC Director takes the decision to start the procedure of public accreditation. The RAEE signs a contract with HEI on educational program public accreditation. To avoid the perceived conflict of interest the administrative support of the accreditation process is done by the AC staff in one of the branches (Moscow, Novosibirsk or Tomsk) that is unbiased regarding the HEI applying for accreditation.
   
   
4. The Accreditation Center provides the institution with the latest version of the criteria and self-study questionnaires.
   
   
5. The institution carries out a self-study process according to the RAEE requirements and submits a self-study report to the Accreditation Center.
   
   
6. The Accreditation Center appoints an examination team to carry out an auditing of the program. The examination team should comprise not less than four experts and consist of a chair, examiners from relevant specialization areas as well as a representative of science, business or industry. If the institution seeks accreditation for several programs, the Accreditation Center appoints a separate examination team for each program.
   
   
7. The institution officially informs the Accreditation Center on refusal of a team member or on agreement to accept the proposed examination team.
   
   
8. Each expert signs the statement for no-conflict of interests and sends it to the Accreditation Center.
   
   
9. Upon examination of a self-study report the Accreditation Center takes decision on continuation of accrediting procedure and running of the on-site visit or on necessity to re-elaborate the self-study report or decision on noncompliance of the program with criteria and failure to receive accreditation. In the last cases the institution will receive a written statement from the Accreditation Center.
   
   
10. In case the decision on continuation of accrediting procedure is taken, the team chair and the institution agree on the dates and schedule of the visit.
    
    
11. An on-site visit takes not less than three days. At the end of the visit the team chair and the HEI rector sign The Audit Memorandum.
    
    
12. On the basis of the audit results and the self-study report analysis the examination team prepares an evaluation report that shall contain a detailed statement on compliance or noncompliance of the program with the RAEE criteria as well as examiner opinion different from the team statement, if any.
    
    
13. Within three weeks following the on-site visit ne copy of the report is presented to the institution. Within the two weeks following the on-site visit the institution may send its complaints on team report or breach of accrediting procedure to the Accreditation Center.
    
    
14. The Accreditation Center reviews the report of the examination team and the institution complaints, if any, and prepares a suggestion on accreditation or non-accreditation for a final decision by the Accreditation Board.
    
    
15. The decision of the Accreditation Board is to be approved by the RAEE Board of Directors. The RAEE sends an accreditation certificate signed by the President to the institution. The accredited programs are included a in the RAEE register that is publish in media and the Accreditation Center web site. The list of accredited programs is reported to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.
    
    
16. In case of program accreditation with awarding the EUR-ACE® Label the RAEE AC issues for HEI the corresponding certificate signed by representatives of the RAEE and ENAEE. The accredited program is placed to the ENAEE register.