A Culture of Quality in Higher Education

Abstract

In recent decades, Europe has been working for a common way of reasoning about quality in higher education. Among the results of the work, standards and guidelines for quality assurance in the European higher education area (ESG), has been developed. According to these guidelines, it would be great if the universities not only develop their quality assurance systems, but that they develop the universities' quality culture. This has proved to be a challenge. Maybe because the quality culture is more of a phenomenon than a concept that can be defined.