Quality assurance system
Quality assurance system
BTH’s quality assurance system has been designed to support staff and students’ work with developing BTH as a hub of research and education. The system must ensure that BTH complies with the requirements and objectives stipulated in national rules, regulations and recommendations and that the university’s quality assurance targets are met.
Governing documents
Quality Policy
Quality assurance work for education and research shall be based on systematics, follow-up and learning, which characterises the work of the activities on quality issues at all levels at the university.
Quality reports
To follow up and quality assure the quality work is added as a fourth quality area, and this includes reporting the past period's follow-ups in a quality report for the period.
Structure
The quality assurance system comprises research, education and the organisation’s conditions.
The university conducts regular follow-ups with the aim of identifying where there is a need for development, skills strengthening and infrastructure changes. Each follow-up is part of a one, two or three-year cycle. It involves collecting supporting documentation and pursuing a dialogue between those responsible and university management. The follow-ups result in new or updated action plans.
In addition, the university conducts regular external audits in three or six-year cycles. The purpose is to generate benchmarking of the organisation based on the perspective of external experts.
Quality in education, research and operational conditions
Education
QU-1 Follow-up of courses
QU-2 Follow-up of training programmes
QU-3 Follow-up of doctoral education
QU-4 Follow-up of pedagogical development
QU-5 Follow-up of student influence
QU-6 Follow-up of educational support
QU-7a External Review: Evaluation of Education
QU-7b External review: Evaluation of doctoral education
Operating conditions
QV-1 Follow-up of Academic Environments
QV-2 Follow-up of skills supply
QV-3 Follow-up of Premises Supply and Common Infrastructure
QV-4 External Review – Thematic Evaluation
Research
QF-1 Monitoring of research development and renewal
QF-2 Follow-up of good research practice
QF-3 Follow-up of research support
QF-4 External Review: Evaluation of Research Areas
Assurance of quality systems
QS-1 Follow-up of BTH’s quality system
QS-2 External Audit – Quality Assurance