Quality assurance and enhancement

The University’s shared principles

Quality assurance and enhancement is based on the Quality Policy for Lund University and the university-wide Guidelines for Quality Assurance and Quality Enhancement of Education. The Quality Policy outlines the University's shared principles for quality assurance and enhancement, while the Guidelines detail how these principles are to be applied in practice.

The Guidelines set out three main processes: 

• Establishment and discontinuation of study programmes
• Evaluation of ongoing courses and study programmes
• Follow-up of quality assurance and development and its results

The Guidelines also set out the quality criteria that are to serve as a guide for all quality assurance and enhancement at the University.

You can find the Quality Policy and the Guidelines under ‘Related documents’.

You can also find more practical information about the processes involved in establishing, discontinuing, evaluating and monitoring study programmes on the following pages:

Establishment and discontinuation of courses and study programmes

Follow-up and evaluation of courses and study programmes

Responsibilities of the faculties and the Vice-Chancellor

Lund University is characterised by a culture of quality. This means that all staff, students and doctoral students feel involved in, and responsible for, the quality of the University's operations. Everyone working at the University is expected to contribute to improving and developing quality.

Much of the responsibility for the design, implementation and monitoring of quality assurance and enhancement lies with the faculties. The Vice-Chancellor has overall responsibility for the quality of courses and programmes and regularly monitors the work of the faculties. This is done primarily through annual discussions between the Vice-Chancellor and the faculties.
You can find out more about each faculty’s quality assurance and enhancement work via the links below.

You can find out more about each faculty’s quality management via the links below.

• Faculty of Engineering, LTH
• Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts
• Faculties of Humanities and Theology (in Swedish)
• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Medicine, Bachelor's and Master's studies
• Faculty of Medicine, Doctoral studies
• Faculty of Science
• Faculty of Social Sciences
• School of Economics and Management, LUSEM

University-wide boards

The university-wide boards deal with strategic education issues affecting the whole University within their respective fields. This includes certain decisions relating to quality assurance and enhancement. For example, the Education Board decides on the establishment of at first and second-cycle degree programmes.

• Education Board
• Research Programmes Board

The national quality assurance system

The quality assurance and enhancement system at Lund University is also based on the national quality assurance system, for which the Swedish Higher Education Authority (UKÄ) is responsible. The national quality assurance system is based on higher education institutions taking significant responsibility for their own internal quality assurance processes that build on the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG).

UKÄ carries out audits to ensure quality in Swedish higher education. You can read more about the audits on the following page:

Follow-up and evaluation of courses and study programmes

Support at the University

Education Strategy Support at the Division of Student Affairs provides advice and support in questions relating to quality assurance and enhancement in education.

The unit is also responsible for facilitating the exchange of knowledge and experience between the faculties. It also carries out university-wide surveys, which provide empirical evidence to support quality assurance and enhancement work.