Quality assurance: Goals and strategies
Goals and Strategies provide the framework for Uppsala University’s quality assurance and enhancement processes, while the responsibility for different quality processes follows the University’s regular organisation and responsibilities.
Uppsala University has various documents and guidelines that constitute the framework for the internal quality organisation and quality processes.
Uppsala University: Mission, Goals and Strategies
The document Mission, Goals and Strategies articulates the University’s overarching goals. It expresses the University’s fundamental values and the focus of the University’s continued development. It starts by stating that Uppsala University’s mission is to gain and disseminate knowledge for the benefit of humankind and for a better world. Uppsala University is to provide high-quality and relevant education and research, in which contacts with the wider community are integrated.
Mission, Goals and Strategies formulates strategic priorities and goals for quality assurance and enhancement as well as for internationalisation, infrastructure, talent attraction and professional development, career systems, support functions, and the wider university environment.
There are also corresponding documents and supplemental guidelines in the disciplinary domains of Science and Technology, Medicine and Pharmacy, and Humanities and Social Sciences and at faculty level.
Guidelines for quality assurance and enhancement
Guidelines (and other documents) relevant to quality processes are found under each component in the figure illustrating Uppsala University’s quality system. For example:
- Guidelines for approving, monitoring and phasing out degree programmes, main fields of study and subsidiary fields of study
- Guidelines for course evaluations
- Uppsala University’s Model for Review of Study Programmes
Teaching and Learning at Uppsala University
The document Teaching and Learning at Uppsala University contains visions for the University’s education. The document sets out four overarching themes for good teaching and learning: conditions for student learning; development of educational programmes; professional development in academic teaching and learning and subject didactics; and the value of the teaching experience (called “The legitimacy of teaching in terms of career building” in the linked document).
Magna Charta Universitatum
Uppsala University has signed the Magna Charta Universitatum. The Magna Charta Universitatum is the declaration of rights for European universities that was developed in 1988 in connection with the celebration of the University of Bologna’s 900th anniversary.