Systematic quality work – Higher education
Universities and university colleges
The purpose of systematic quality work at universities and university colleges is to secure and enhance the quality of study programmes and detect quality failures. All institutions shall therefore have an adequate internal quality assurance system that is partly based on student evaluations. It is also a requirement for the institutions to include and document their work on their learning environment.
Systematic quality work shall be part of a strategy, as well as part of the institution’s governance structure. In addition, systematic quality work is expected to promote a quality culture at the institution.
To secure quality, the institutions shall, amongst other things, control that all study programmes comply with the quality regulations at the national level. To assess educational quality, the institutions shall collect information from relevant sources, such as periodic evaluations.
The knowledge stemming from systematic quality work shall be used to further develop educational quality. Similarly, the results and information from systematic quality work shall be part of the knowledge base of the institution when assessing and further developing its study programme portfolio.
The national requirements for systematic quality work at universities and university colleges are stipulated in the Act relating to universities and university colleges and the Regulations concerning universities and university colleges.
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