ISO

System for Quality Management at VFU ‘Chernorizets Hrabar’ in compliance with the international standard ISO 9001:2000

On August 28th 2001 VFU ‘Chernorizets Hrabar’ was audited by the international certifying organization BVQI and was awarded a certificate for compliance with the international standard ISO 9001:1994. It was also awarded certificates by UKAS (Great Britain), ANSI - RAB (the USA), DAR (Germany) and RvA (the Netherlands) for a period of 3 years.
On January 7th 2004 the university was recertified by the same organization under the new international standard ISO 9001:2000 and was awarded certificated by UKAS (Great Britain), ANSI - RAB - NAP (the USA) and RvA (the Netherlands) for a period of 3 years.
On May 14th 2007 the university was recertified for a second time under the international standard ISO 9001:2000 and was awarded certificates by UKAS (Great Britain) and ANAB (the USA) for a period of 3 years.

ISO 9001

ISO is an international organization of standardization. More than 100 countries from all over the world are part of it. It develops different standards for quality management in a number of spheres in business life.

The ISO standards were accepted by the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and substitute the international standards with the generally accepted international ones. They facilitate the improvement of the communication and the development of international cooperation on a global scale.

The sphere of certification of VFU under ISO 9001:2000 for the period 2007 – 2010 includes the following:

• The university offers accredited higher education, post-graduate specialization and qualification, retraining and long life learning.
• Scientific and research and expert services
• It facilitates the development and participation in national and international scientific and application projects and initiatives.
• It ensures interuniversity cooperation and academic mobility of both lecturers and students and also offers a correspondence within the credit transfer system (ECTS).
• It carries out economic activity which is either directly connected or subsidiary to the main activity of the university.

With the implementation of ISO 9001:2000 VFU aims at:

• constant improvement in the quality of the academic product;
• accomplishment of program accreditation of professional fields and of the specialities from the regulated professions in correspondence with the changes in the Law for Higher Education;
• adaptation and flexibility to the educational services market;
• effective realization of the scientific product in the conditions of market economy;
• integration in the global academic space.

The advantages from the implementation of university system for quality management certified under ISO 9001:2000 are manifested in the following fields:

• Independent and objective evaluation of the system for quality management.
• Introduction of clear criteria and indexes for the activity of the separate unit.
• Stimulation for systematic and accurate documentation.
• Objective and on time problem revealing and defining.
• Facilitating in making management decisions.