Quality culture

The QM system at FAU is based on the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance (ESG). Our quality culture focuses on a participatory exchange based on dialogue between the units of FAU and increasing the awareness of all members of the University of the aims of the QM system.

Our central ideas are participation, transparency and the principle of subsidiarity.

Our aim is to continuously improve the degree programmes offered at FAU and adapt the framework conditions in teaching and studying in the best possible manner. The requirements of good teaching and optimum learning conditions are characterised by the different situations and cultures in each discipline. We regard the diversity of our disciplines as one of our characteristic strengths which ought to be developed and supported by the QM system in order to further strengthen the quality culture across FAU.

 

 

 

Principles of system accreditation

System accreditation is based on a university’s internal quality assurance system. System accreditation entitles universities to accredit their own degree programmes with the seal of the Accreditation Council. (German Accreditation Council)

During the system accreditation process, a university must prove that it systematically implements the formal and subject-related criteria laid down in the Council’s Specimen decree. To do so, the quality management system must schedule regular evaluations of the degree programmes and all areas relevant to teaching and studying. If a university has received system accreditation, it means that its quality management system is suitable for ensuring that qualification goals are met and its degree programmes are of high quality.

The system accreditation process focuses on the assessment of the QM system and its development. This process is as an opportunity to design quality management instruments, structures and processes on the basis of FAU’s targets, while taking into account the criteria for degree programme accreditation, and to ensure that these instruments and structures are also effective on the degree programme level.

 

We have been continuously developing the QM system at FAU with all status groups since 2016 and are scheduled to begin the system accreditation process in 2021, once again with the AQAS accreditation agency.