From the 8th till 11th of April, 2013 INQAAHE (International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education) organized its 2013 Biennial Conference in Taipei, Taiwan. The conference theme was “Managing Diversity: Sustainable quality assurance processes”. The conference host was the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT). 
Within the Conference more than 190 participants from different countries had the opportunity to share experiences and discuss such actual problems as:
- Quality assurance of cross-border education; 
- Innovative approaches to external quality assurance in higher education: the variety of ways to perfection;
- Impact of external and internal quality assurance: regional perspectives on general problems;
- National qualification framework and its connection to quality assurance (with the participation of all relevant stakeholders); 

The representative from the Republic of Kazakhstan was the manager of International projects of the Independent Agency for Accreditation and Rating, Timur Kanapyanov. The important fact is that the IAAR is a full member of INQAAHE. 
Also during the Conference there were held meetings of the members of the Board (April, 10) and the representatives of regional networks (April, 12).

Click INQAAHE Conference website for more information on presentations, articles of the Conference participants.