NIAD-QE is honored to announce that, in collaboration with the Education Quality Evaluation Agency of the Ministry of Education (EQEA) in China and the Korean Council for University Education (KCUE), our organization has been awarded the 2025 APQN Quality Award.

This award is presented by Asia-Pacific Quality Network (APQN^*) to institutions and individuals who made outstanding contributions to quality assurance or implemented exemplary practices that serve as a model in the Asia-Pacific region.

NIAD-QE has worked jointly with EQEA and KCUE on "The CAMPUS Asia Common Quality Assurance Standards Project" for four years since 2021, to develop the "Common Quality Assurance Standards." This initiative was highly recognized, and the three agencies received the "APQN Award of International Cooperation in QA," which honors institutions that made significant efforts in cross-border education and international collaboration in quality assurance.

The award ceremony took place in conjunction with the 2025 APQN Annual Academic Conference & Annual General Meeting in Hong Kong on November 21, 2025. NIAD-QE President HATTORI Yasunao and representatives from EQEA and KCUE received the trophies from Dr. Galina Motova, President of APQN and Dr. Jagannath Patil, Chair of APQN Quality Award committee at the ceremony.

^*APQN is a network of quality assurance agencies established in 2003, with the aim of maintaining and improving the quality of higher education in the Asia-Pacific region. NIAD-QE has been aｎ APQN member since November 2005.