Triagon Academy

Basic information

National External Quality Assurance Requirements

  • Institutional audit
    All institutions, including self-accrediting ones, have to be reviewed and audited periodically by NCFHE as part of the External Quality Assurance process as defined by NCFHE.
  • Programme accreditation
    Education institutions (whether national, international, public or private) must have their programme audits approved by the National Commission for Further and Higher Education (NCFHE). Locally accredited courses currently do not have an accreditation expiry date. By exception, public institutions that have a 'self-accrediting status' established by NCFHE do not need to submit programmes for accreditation if these fall within the scope of the Malta Qualification Framework (MQF) level of their self-accrediting status. They would need to do so if they intend to provide programmes that exceed the MQF level of their self-accrediting status.
  • Further information on external quality assurance in Malta

External Quality Assurance Reports and Decisions

Institutional level

Decision: positive
Institutional accreditation

Programme level

Decision: positive
Bachelor of Science in Business Management (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • B.Sc.
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Decision: positive
Bachelor of Science in Business Management (Top Up, 60 ECTS) (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • B.Sc.
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Decision: positive
Bachelor of Science in Culinary Arts and Management (first cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • B.Sc.
  • Level
    first cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Decision: positive
Doctor of Business Administration (third cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • DBA
  • Level
    third cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Decision: positive
Doctor of Laws in Business Law (Level 7) (third cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • LLD
  • Level
    third cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Decision: positive
Doctor of Philosophy (third cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • PhD
  • Level
    third cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Decision: positive
Master of Business Administration (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • MBA
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Decision: positive
Master of Science in Leadership and Strategic Management (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • M.Sc.
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
Decision: positive
Master of Science in Project Studies (second cycle degree)
  • Qualification/award
    • M.Sc.
  • Level
    second cycle
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme

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.