Alenka holds PhD and MSc from the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana in the area of internationalisation and quality assurance in higher education, and BSc in social work studies. Before joining CEEMAN, she was an Advisor to the Minister of Education of the Republic of Slovenia and Senior Advisor at Slovenian Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (NAKVIS), where she coordinated dozens of institutional and program accreditation procedures. While working at NAKVIS, she cooperated with many higher educational institutions and quality assurance agencies around Europe and was also intensively involved in projects coordinated by the European Consortium for Accreditation (ECA Certificate for Quality in Internationalisation - CeQuInt and Joint programs: Quality Assurance and Recognition of degrees awarded – JOQAR). She gained a lot of different perspectives regarding higher education and international experience while she was working as an Assistant for International Relations at Faculty of Administration, University of Ljubljana, where she was responsible for mobility exchanges of students, academic staff and joint study programs. She has also been active as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Primorska in Koper, and as external evaluation expert nominated by several institutions, such as Centre of the Republic of Slovenia for Mobility and European Educational and Training Programs, Ministry of Education, Montenegro and Academic Information Centre (Latvian Quality Assurance Agency). She is also Chair of the Council at National Education Institute of the Republic of Slovenia.
Prof. Jim Ellert, who has served as IQA Director since 2013, will continue his active involvement as advisor and reviewer for IQA, and as Academic Director of CEEMAN’s IMTA-International Management Teachers Academy.
CEEMAN members and partners will have the opportunity to meet Alenka already at the upcoming 23rd CEEMAN Annual Conference in Almaty, Kazakhstan on 23-26 September, where she will lead IQA information session together with Dr. Irina Sennikova (Rector of RISEBA, Latvia), CEEMAN Vice-President and IQA Accreditation Committee member.
Alenka can be contacted at alenka.bracek.lalic@ceeman.org, tel +386 4 57 92 570.
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