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Accrediting Body:
ACE Denmark
Akkrediteringsinstitutionen
Studiestræde 5
1455 København K
Tel: 33 92 69 00
E-mail: acedenmark@acedenmark.dk
Website: www.acedenmark.dk
Accreditation Process:
The accreditation system is based on the Danish Act on the Accreditation Agency for Higher Education, and the responsibility of implementing the Act lies at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. In the Danish accreditation system, a principle aim of the Act is to create a system with a view to ensuring and documenting the quality and relevance of higher education in the Danish educational institutions.
According to the Accreditation Act, the Accreditation Council is the specific unit which makes the decisions regarding accreditation of all higher education study programmes. Decisions are made on the basis of accreditation reports prepared by accreditation operators.
In Denmark, there are two accreditation operators that head the accreditation process and prepare the accreditation reports, which form the basis of the Accreditation Councils decisions. For university study programmes under the Ministry of Science, ACE Denmark prepares the accreditation reports. For higher education study programmes within the fields covered by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture, the Danish Evaluation Institute (EVA) prepares the accreditation reports.
In 2008, the Accreditation Council and ACE Denmark accredited the first existing university study programmes. These accreditations were performed as a pilot process that gave both ACE Denmark and the universities an opportunity to learn how best to organise an accreditation process. The pilot stage ran from April 2008 when the universities submitted their documentation material to November 2008 when they received the Accreditation Council’s decisions.
