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Evaluation of the quality of education

Components of the quality of education

The quality of education is an entity consisting of various components.

• Quality assurance in the faculties and departments
  A significant part of measures concerned with assuring the quality of education take place in the faculties and departments in the form of the procedures that are followed in the planning, implementation, evaluation and development of education and teaching.
• Strategic planning and operations management
  The focal starting points of education are defined in the University’s Strategic Plan and in the Programme for the Development of Teaching and Studies. The evaluation of education and development measures, as well as the evaluation of the attainment of set objectives, are part of the University’s management system, strategic planning and operations management.
• Networking and University-level guidelines
  The University Senate decides on the most important guidelines on educational policies, which are prepared by the University’s Academic Affairs Committee. The guidelines are prepared in cooperation between various experts (including faculty heads of academic affairs, vice-deans in charge of academic affairs and the Student Union)