The National System for Accreditation of Higher Education (SINAES) (Spanish: S''istema Nacional de Acreditación de la Educación Superior'') is a
Costa Rican
Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in Central America. It borders Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the northeast, Panama to the southeast, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, as well as Maritime bo ...
organisation tasked with contributing to the quality of higher education in the country, mainly through evaluating education programmes for accreditation.
It was founded in 1999 by an agreement signed by the four largest public universities (
UCR,
TEC,
UNA, and
UNED
The National Distance Education University (, UNED) is a distance learning and research university founded in 1972 and is the only university run by the government of Spain. The headquarters is located in Madrid, with campuses in all Spanish aut ...
) and the four largest private universities (
ULatina,
Interamericana,
ULACIT, and
Veritas
In Roman mythology, Veritas (), meaning Truth, is the Goddess of Truth, a daughter of Saturn (mythology), Saturn (called Cronus by the Greeks, the Titan (mythology), Titan of Time, perhaps first by Plutarch) and the mother of Virtus (deity), Vi ...
) of Costa Rica at the time. As of 2023, SINAES has accredited 254 study programmes at 30 universities.
The accreditation process of SINAES relies on a register of domestic and international experts that have at least 10 years of teaching experience in a discipline, either within Costa Rica or abroad.
SINAES is a member of the
(INQAAHE)
and the
Council for Higher Education Accreditation
The Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) is an American organization of degree-granting colleges and universities. It identifies its purpose as providing national advocacy for academic quality through accreditation in order to ...
(CHEA).
External link
Official website(in Spanish)
References
Higher education accreditation
Education in Costa Rica
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