2010: Quality Audit

The Quality Management of the University of Konstanz was also evaluated. An audit of the institutional quality assurance (quality audits) was carried out by the external evaluation agency evalag (Evaluationsagentur Baden-Württemberg).

Contents and Objectives

  • Evaluation and assessment of the Quality Management of the University of Konstanz as well as its plans for future development.
  • Assessment of the goals that the university has addressed in its application to the Excellence Initiative.
  • Recommendations for further development of the Quality Management and its structures
  • Examination of whether the system accreditation LINK is a useful tool for the University of Konstanz
  • Contribution to the communication of the quality development process within the university

Procedure

  1. Surveys of and interviews with university academics and scientists, as well as the representatives of the university administration, faculties and departments
  2. Creation of a self-evaluation report: The University of Konstanz created a self-evaluation report on the basis of these surveys and interviews. This report was based on the criteria of the evaluation agency “Evaluationsagentur Baden-Württemberg” (evalag)
  3. This self-evaluation report was provided to external assessors who evaluated the quality management during an inspection
  4. The assessor concluded the quality audit with the so-called audit report. This report includes the recommendations for the further development of the Quality Management that are to be subsequently implemented.

Results

All members of the university can view the self-evaluation report of the quality audit (only available in German). The Rectorate and the project group QM have discussed the recommendations of the assessors and developed an internal study programme monitoring for the evaluation and further development of the study programmes.

The Quality Management Unit has set up an online-supported process portal in order to make the documentation of quality feedback control systems transparent and user friendly.