University of Novo mesto

Univerza v Novem mestu

Basic information

National External Quality Assurance Requirements

  • Accreditation of a study programme
    is granted for an indefinite period or the application is denied.
  • Re-accreditation of a higher education institution
    is granted for a period of maximum five years (or less) or, if quality standards are not meet the accreditation is denied.
  • Initial accreditation of a higher education institutions
    is granted for a period of five years or, if quality standards are not meet, the application is denied.
  • Accreditation of changes of higher education institutions
    Changes to another type, merger by acquisition, merger by the formation of a new entity or division of higher education institutions, changing the location in Slovenia
  • Further information on external quality assurance in Slovenia

External Quality Assurance Reports and Decisions

Institutional level

This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Institutional re-accreditation
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Institutional re-accreditation, University of Novo mesto Faculty of business and management sciences
This report is not currently valid but part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Institutional re-accreditation, University of Novo Mesto Faculty of Mechanical Enigineering
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Institutional re-accreditation
  • DEQAR Report ID
    100034
  • Agency
    Slovenian Quality Assurance Agency (SQAA)
  • Type
    Re-accreditation of higher education institutions
  • Status
    part of obligatory EQA system
  • Formal decision
    positive
  • Date
    21/09/2023
  • Valid until
    not applicable
  • Summary

    Report summary

    The evaluation of the University of Novo mesto (UNM) for the extension of the accreditation of a higher education institution was carried out by a group of experts in accordance with the recommendations, criteria and criteria set by the National Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Quality in Higher Education. The UNM audit was performed in four areas: Operation of the higher education institution, Staff, Students and Material conditions. The visit was intended to evaluate the institution as a whole and its members / faculties. The second visit to the university in April 2023 will also focus on individual study programs, when we will also assess the area of Internal Quality Assurance and Improvement, Modification, Update and Implementation of Study Programs. The four areas assessed include 17 standards. Expert Group established that UMS meets all necessary requirements within all 17 standards. This means that a group of experts found no partial or even major weaknesses or non-compliances. Nevertheless, the group of experts has identified several opportunities for improvement and pointed out several strengths. In identifying the strengths, we focused on the most evident strengths of UNM, listing a total of 25, but there are certainly more. UNM is a young research and educational university both in Slovenia and internationally. It is the result of the development of colleges and faculties in the Dolenjska region, where the need for local or regional higher education in the form of a university has become apparent. In this respect, UNM enjoys strong support from the local and regional community. Being a smaller university, it allows for very good communication between the members and greater flexibility in decisionmaking and implementation of decisions and activities. Students are above average satisfied with the study process, information flow, Career Centre services and especially with the system of practical and clinical training. The infrastructure or buildings are pleasant with well-equipped lecture rooms and computer rooms and laboratories in the health sciences area. Notwithstanding the many strengths of UNM, we have highlighted over 40 opportunities for improvement that UNM can take advantage of to further develop and improve the quality of the institution. These opportunities relate to practically all the assessment standards, we highlight the more systematic definition and tracking of strategic and shortterm goals, the strengthening of cooperation with the economy in the form of various projects and services and financial support, the involvement and motivation of students in the management of UNM, the involvement of external stakeholders in UNM bodies, more synergies between faculties and research and education areas, more balanced research activities of individual faculties, introduction of annual interviews with employees to monitor their careers, recruitment of more young researchers, more project work by students, increase the capacity and equipment of the laboratories at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, introduction of an open and freely accessible repository, etc. At this point, the members of the group would like to thank all those who made sure that the five-day visit to UNM took place at a very high level: Nataša Kramar, Jožica Kramar and Klemen Šubic - Nakvis experts, UNM management led by Rector prof. dr. Marjan Blažič and all other stakeholders for constructive cooperation in interviews.
    The evaluation of the University of Novo mesto (UNM) for the extension of the accreditation of a higher education institution was carried out by a group of experts in accordance with the recommendations, criteria and criteria set by the National Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Quality in Higher Education. The UNM audit was performed in four areas: Operation of the higher education instituti...
  • Report and decision
  • Permalink
    https://data.deqar.eu/report/100034
  • Agency's identifier
    6031-3/2022/12
  • Verifiable Credential

Programme level

Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Upravljanje z okoljem (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF 8)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Upravljanje z okoljem (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor (Visokošolski strokovni)
  • Level
    first cycle (NQF 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
This report does not have a validity period, but it is older than 6 years and thus considered part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Vzgoja in menedžment v zdravstvu (degree)
This report does not have a validity period, but it is older than 6 years and thus considered part of the historic record.
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Zdravstvena nega (degree)
Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
Zdravstvena nega (second cycle degree)

Verifiable Credentials

A Verifiable Credential (VC) is a digitally-signed and thus tamper-evident document containing information on a subject (e.g. personal information, entitlements of an individual, degrees held by an individual or accreditation of a higher education institution). Quality assurance results recorded in DEQAR can be downloaded as W3C-compatible Verifiable Credentials.

Currently, two types of credentials can be issued:

EBSI Verifiable Accreditations (VA) can be used by a higher education institution in the context of the EBSI Early Adopters programme.

  • The VA allows the institution to prove its external quality assurance on the Trusted Issuer Registry (TIR). EBSI VAs are only issued for external quality assurance results with an official status in a national system (“part of obligatory EQA system”).
  • At present, the higher education institution’s EBSI DID needs to be communicated to EQAR and recorded in DEQAR manually at the moment. If you are a higher education institution participating in EBSI, please contact us to register your DID.
  • EBSI VAs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:ebsi:zk4bhCepWSYp9RhZkRPiwUL.

DEQAR Format Verifiable Credentials primarily serve as a proof of concept and public demonstrator currently.

  • DEQAR Format VCs are based on the plain W3C Recommendation and our own data model. While they closely follow the EBSI Schema, no EBSI-specific or EU-specific elements or data types are used.
  • The higher education institution is identified by its DEQAR URI in this case.
  • DEQAR Format VCs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:web:data.deqar.eu.

Please note: this is an experimental feature.