Distribution of responsibility for the quality of education

• The provision of education is managed in the departments, faculties and the University as a whole. The University is responsible for the overall quality and resourcing of education.
• Faculties are responsible for the quality of their degrees, the attainment of agreed objectives, and for the allocation and prioritising of resources.
• Departments are responsible for the quality of teaching and completed studies in their fields. More specifically, their responsibility encompasses curriculum design, setting learning objectives and defining field-specific learning assessment criteria and methods, and ensuring the professional qualifications and competence of their teachers.
• Each teacher is responsible for the quality of his or her teaching and for the assessment of learning outcomes as part of the teaching duty.
• Each student is responsible for the progress of his or her learning and studies.