Liechtenstein

Information for international students and scholars

• Information about higher education in Liechtenstein (in German)
• Information about higher education in Liechtenstein (in English)
• Overview on the Education System of Liechtenstein (in German)
• Overview on the Education System of Liechtenstein (in English)

Responsible national authority

• Office of Education / Schulamt (in German)

Higher education institutions

• Private University in the Principality of Liechtenstein / Private Universität im Fürstentum Liechtenstein
• International Academy of Philosophy / Internationale Akademie für Philosophie (in English)
• Liechtenstein University of Applied Sciences / Hochschule Liechtenstein

Quality Assurance

Quality assurance principles are included in the 2005 Act on Higher Education and the Act on the Liechtenstein University of Applied Sciences. Higher education institutions are supervised by the Government and the Office of Education. Liechtenstein is a member of the EQAR association. On the basis of the "European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance", higher education institutions are obliged to internal quality assurance. According to the Act on Higher Education, an external evaluation has to take place at least all six years.  A national quality assurance body does not exist, but there is a close cooperation with quality assurance agencies in the neighbouring states.

Academic recognition

• NARIC Liechtenstein

Student involvement

Due to the very  limited field of higher education within the country, there is no national student organisation. The Liechtenstein University of Applied Sciences has an internal student organisation, the two private higher education institutions (University of Human Sciences, International Academy of Philosophy) are very small, so that students can be directly involved. With the revision of the law on Higher Education coming into effect in the beginning of 2009, the involvement of students will be regulated by law.

EU education programmes

• Lifelong learning programme / Erasmus national agency

Information about the Bologna Process / National implementation

• Full member of the Bologna Process since 1999
• National reports on Bologna reforms (2009, 2007, 2005, 2003, 2003 report in German)
• Bologna documents in German

Representative in the Bologna Follow-up Group

• Helmut KONRAD

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