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The International Association for Quality Assurance in Pre‑Tertiary & Higher Education (QAHE) is pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Consejo para la Acreditación de la Enseñanza del Derecho A.C. (CONAED), Mexico’s specialist accreditation council for legal education.

CONAED is a non‑profit civil organisation established in February 2003 by the Mexican Bar Association with the purpose of contributing to the development of legal education in Mexico. As an accrediting body, CONAED works to improve the professional education standards of institutions offering bachelor’s degrees in law, criminology and criminalistics by assessing institutional capacity, programme quality and administrative procedures. The council measures indicators aligned with market needs and promotes optimisation of institutional resources so that programmes fulfil their stated missions and adapt to current and future social requirements.

The MOU establishes mutual recognition and a strategic partnership between QAHE and CONAED to strengthen quality assurance, accreditation cooperation and capacity‑building activities in higher education — with an initial emphasis on legal, criminology and criminalistics programmes. Under the agreement, both organisations will explore joint initiatives including reciprocal recognition of relevant evaluation outcomes, exchange of good practice in programme assessment, collaborative training for peer evaluators, and coordinated research and events that promote robust standards in professional legal education across the region.

QAHE welcomes this collaboration with CONAED and looks forward to implementing the first joint activities in the coming months. Further details on planned initiatives, timelines and opportunities to participate will be published by QAHE and CONAED in due course.