Lasha Margishvili, the Acting Director of the National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement, stated during a press conference that the center will appeal EQAR's decision.
"We plan to appeal this decision. The center has a 20-day period for this, and then our international partners will review our appeal within 60 days. We will await the appellate committee's decision and act accordingly. If the committee does not consider our arguments, we will request an additional evaluation from EQAR.
A large portion of the recommendations made by EQAR and ENQA representatives have been addressed, and the necessary legislative changes were made in the summer of 2024. There are still some issues we are working on, and we will ensure that the EQAR registration is restored as soon as possible. As for ENQA, the center's membership in the association has not been suspended. We are still a full member of ENQA, and according to their procedures, if a member organization fails to meet any of the standards, they are not expelled but given an additional two years to correct the recommendations and continue their membership.
I want to emphasize that the suspension of EQAR registration is not related to the recognition of qualifications or diplomas issued in Georgia, nor is it related to the quality assurance of medical education. Our organization has been a member of the World Federation for Medical Education since 2018. We obtained this membership before becoming a member of ENQA and EQAR, so no barriers should exist for our local international students studying medicine," Margishvili concluded.
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