Academic Information Centre (AIC)

AIC is a public non-profit foundation established in 1994. According to the amendments to the Law on Institutions of Higher Education it was authorised to organise external quality assurance of tertiary education in Latvia in 2015. The function of the quality assurance is performed by a department of the Academic Information Centre – Quality Agency for Higher Education (AIKA) which promotes the improvement of quality of Latvian higher education and contributes to the development of quality culture and its maintenance in accordance with the standards and guidelines for quality assurance in the European Higher Education Area.