NVAO

NVAO has the following tasks:

1. assessing the quality control of higher educations institutions in the Netherlands;
2. the accreditation of programmes offered by higher education institutions in the Netherlands and Flanders;
3. the initial accreditation of programmes that are not yet offered and/or registered in the Netherlands and Flanders;
4. to contribute towards emphasizing the distinctive features of programmes or institutions by assessing these quality features at the request of institutions in the Netherlands and Flanders;
5. to establish a commission of experts that will advise about the institutional audit or initial accreditation of a programme and to aprove a commission of experts as proposed by the higher education institution that will advise about the accreditation of exisiting programmes (in the Netherlands). These commissions always include a student member. 
6. to have an active internationalisation policy in place regarding higher education and quality assurance in order to reach agreement and cohesion;
7. undertaking other tasks commissioned by the Dutch-Flemish Committee of Ministers;
8. reporting to the Dutch-Flemish Committee of Ministers about the quality of higher education programmes and making proposals in the interest of this quality;
9. contributing to the public debate on the developments in higher education within the scope of NVAO's primary tasks.