Banjarmasin, S Kalimatan (ANTARA) - Head of Lambung Mangkurat University's (ULM's) Education Quality Assurance and Learning Development Board (LPMPP) Professor Agung Nugroho said ULM uses international accreditation of the Accreditation, Certification and Quality Assurance Institute (ACQUIN) as an instrument for continuous quality.
"We encourage every study program to dare to compete in the global beginning with ACQUIN accreditation," he said in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, Friday.
ACQUIN, which is based in Germany, is registered with European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR) and recognized by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology (Kemdiktisaintek).
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Currently, nine undergraduate study programs at the ULM's Faculty of Teaching and Education (FKIP) are being assisted to obtain ACQUIN accreditation after achieving excellent status in national accreditation.
The nine study programs are Economic Education, Geography Education, History Education, Sociology Education, Performing Arts Education, Civics Education, Social Studies Education, English Education, and Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian Language) Education.
"We have presented an expert resource Hendy Santosa from Bengkulu University who gives technical assistance in preparing Self Evaluation Report (SER) based on ACQUIN criteria," said Agung.
Bengkulu University is the first university in Indonesia to be internationally accredited by ACQUIN.
Agung said that achieving international standard such as ACQUIN is an important step in strengthening competitiveness of institution after ULM obtained superior accreditation from the National Accreditation Agency for Higher Education (BAN-PT) in 2025.
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