The Spanish National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA), a state foundation, was created on 19 July 2002 to comply with Spain’s Law of Universities 6/2001 of 21 December 2001, with the mission of contributing to the improvement of the higher education system’s quality through the assessment, certification and accreditation of institutions, teaching staff and studies.
Subsequently, with the passing of Law 4/2007 of 12 April 2007 amending Law 6/2001 (LOMLOU), the transformation of ANECA was authorized, in accordance with the provisions of the Law of State Agencies for the improvement of public services, with the functions it has been performing up until now in its legal capacity as a foundation.
To the legal and organizational change brought about by the new Law has to be added the heavy impact of the LOMLOU regulations’ application to the activities of ANECA, with the passing of decrees relating to the new organization of studies and the accreditation of state-employed lecturers, which have impinged on the major part of ANECA’s new activities in the last year.
All the far-reaching changes being embarked upon by the Agency have led it to reflect on ANECA’s strategy for avoiding imbalances between the rapid evolution of external demands and its capacity to adapt. Thus, the Agency has reviewed its Strategic Plan 2010 so as to adapt it to the new functions entrusted to it by the legislation.
- Strategic Reformulation of ANECA (2009)
- Strategic Plan-2010 (2005)