1. Cross-Border Quality Assurance - The Danish example - Meeting of Directors General for Higher Education October 22nd – 23rd 2012

2. Content of Presentation
The Danish accreditation system
Cross-border quality assurance
Expectations for the future?

3. Accreditation in Denmark
Accreditation of university study programmes
Five criteria based on quality and relevance
Both assessment and decision is preformed independently of the ministry
Assessment – ACE Denmark (university study programmes) and Danish Evaluation Institute (EVA) (other higher educational study programmes)
Decision – The Accreditation Council

4. Cross-border quality assurance
The universities themselves choose the QA agency
Either EQAR-registered agencies or regarded as internationally recognised:
Erasmus Mundus Masters Programmes only EQAR-register
Parts of study programmes:
Quality assured as part of an existing Danish study programme or as part of a foreign study programme
It is sufficient that the foreign study programme is offered by an institution that has an institutional based quality assurance
Cross-border QA can reduce bureaucracy, contribute to more joint and double degree and in the end increase mobility in HE

5. Expectations for the future?
New legislation – not tested in practice yet
Universities know what they have, but not what they get
Effect of future shift in Denmark to accreditation of HE institutions instead of individual study programmes?

6. Thank you for your attention
Jens Peter Jacobsen
General Director
Danish Agency for Universities
and Internationalisation