AU receives positive accreditation
Aarhus University has once again been given a positive institutional accreditation by the Danish Accreditation Council. Pro-rector Berit Eika calls the accreditation a seal of approval for the university’s quality assurance system and the enormous amount of work that has gone into it.
Effective, systematic and well-integrated into university operations.
These are some of the positive words the Danish Accreditation Council uses to describe AU’s educational quality assurance system in the positive accreditation report received by the university this week. The council has given AU a positive institutional accreditation, as recommended in the panel’s report this June – just as in 2018.
This positive re-accreditation means that AU will retain authorisation to adjust existing degree programmes and establish new ones, once they have been pre-accredited by RUVU (the advisory committee for the preliminary assessment of higher education degree programmes). Pro-rector Eika is pleased by this decision, and describes it as a seal of approval for AU’s educational quality assurance system, as well as – and not least – the enormous amount of work involved in it:
"A positive institutional accreditation should be seen as a direct result of the enormous amount of work we put into continually ensuring and developing the quality of our degree programmes at all organisational levels. So I’d like to extend my sincere thanks to the many students, teaching staff, administrative staff and managers who contribute to strengthening the quality of our degree programmes – and to the many people involved in ensuring the success of the accreditation process.”
Aarhus University's positive institutional accreditation will apply for a minimum of 6 years.