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Since commencement of the HEdA, the AAQ has carried out a number of institutional accreditation procedures and has collected feedback in different forms. Some higher education institutions expressed concerns about possible consequences of the recommendations in future accreditation procedures. The AAQ has taken this as an opportunity to conduct a thematic analysis with the intention to give an overview and provide clarity in the context of the recommendations.

AAQ welcomes the initiative to simplify the current procedure. However, the two proposed variants do not achieve a genuine and sustainable simplification, but create new challenges and uncertainty for the

In its meeting of 25 june 2021 the Swiss Accreditation Council granted accreditation to the Uinversité de Lausanne as university.

In its meeting of 26 March 2021, the Swiss Accreditation Council granted the accreditation to the chiropractic study programme at the University of Zurich.

In its meeting of 26 March 2021 the Swiss Accreditation Council granted accreditation to the Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich as university of teacher education.

In its meeting of 26 March 2021 the Swiss Accreditation Council granted accreditation to the Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana (SUPSI) as university of applied sciences.

AAQ has decided to continue conducting its procedures and meetings in a digital format/via video conference until the end of the summer break, i.e. 13 August 2021.

The strategy was accepted by the Swiss Accreditation Council on 18.12.2020.

In its meeting of 18 December 2020 the Swiss Accreditation Council granted accreditation to the Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaft (ZHAW) as university of applied sciences.

In its meeting of 25 September 2020 the Swiss Accreditation Council granted accreditation to the Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID) as university institute.

This report reviews the use of internal and external feedback at the AAQ in order to assess and rank the possibilities of applying new methods to the collection and use of feedback.

AAQ recently completed the self-assessment against the ESG quality standards. The self-assessment is an important part of the quality assurance of AAQ. It covers facts and analyses over the past years and considers a follow-up from the 2016 review throughout the report.