THE CORRELATION ACCREDITATION – BOLOGNA PROCESS –
  CONTINUOUS QUALITY IMPROVEMENT BASED IN PROFESSORS’
       PERCEPTIONS IN ALBANIAN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES

                            Arjan Qefalia, Tirana University, Albania
                            Arbina Totoni, Tirana University, Albania

ABSTRACT: Quality is becoming a very important issue in higher education institutions toward
gaining competitive advantage in this changing and dynamic environment. Bologna process
seeking to unify or standardize the rules for higher education on the transfer of credits, free
mobility of students and pedagogues etc, as well as the accreditation aiming quality assurance in
higher education institutions, basically have as the main focus to improve the quality of
universities in terms of teaching and on scientific research, which will make universities known.
Nowadays, universities in developed and developing countries are using more and more
continuous quality improvement methods, combined with the accreditation and implementation
of the Bologna process, which constitutes the basis for ensuring the success of the these
universities in the future. Even in Albania, universities are in a stage of continuous development
by using many of the same continuous quality improvement methods like in western universities,
are in a stage of accreditation and changing the curricula and the system according to Bologna
Process.
In this paper, through the use of literature, the questionnaires and interviews directed mainly to
the professors / pedagogues working in Albanian public universities, the focus is to show the
importance of accredition and Bologna process for Albanian universities, the continuous quality
imporovement methods used, and to test the hypothesis: The majority of professors / pedagogues
think that the correlation between Accreditation - Bologna process - Continuous Quality
Improvement is a strong positive correlation.

Key words: Higher education, Continuous Quality Improvement, Bologna Process, Accreditation

JEL Codes: A22, A23, I23