History in short
The Danish Evaluation Institute (EVA) is an independent institution formed under the auspices of the Danish Ministry of Education. The institution was established in 1999 by an act of Parliament.
Denmark was one of the first countries in Europe to set up a national system for the external evaluation of higher education. The Danish Centre for Quality Assurance and Evaluation of Higher Education was established in 1992 and till 1999 fulfilled its mandate to evaluate all higher education programmes at university as well as at non-university level at a regular and systematic basis.
In 1999 the Parliament passed a law that established an evaluation agency responsible for the systematic evaluation of all levels of the educational system. The former centre was integrated into the new institute, which could base therefore itself on staff, knowledge and experience of the centre.
