Guidelines and Standards
Besides the statutory framework, quality management in teaching and learning at the University of Göttingen is also specifically based on a range of internal and external guidelines and recommendations.
In detail, this takes into account the following (as amended):
- Lower Saxony Higher Education Act
- Lower Saxony Higher Education Admissions Act
- Agreement on targets and performance between the University of Göttingen and the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education and Culture
- Regulations on Quality Management in Student and Academic Services and the Evaluation of Teaching at the University of Göttingen (QMO-SL)
- Study accreditation state treaty
- Lower Saxony study education order (until effective: specimen statutory order for the study accreditation state treaty)
- Content-related assessment criteria for internal accreditation of degree programmes (Resolution of the Senate of the University of Göttingen dated 23.01.2019)
- Qualification framework for German university degrees dated 16.02.2017
- Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG)
- Joint structural guidelines of the Accreditation Council for the accreditation of Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programmes (due to expire)
- Rules of the Accreditation Council for the accreditation of degree programmes and for system accreditation (due to expire)
- Resolution of the Conference of Ministers of Education (KMK) “Qualitätssicherung in der Hochschulforschung” dated 03.03.2006
- Audit trail for the degree programme concepts submitted by universities to establish agreement with the Federal State’s higher education strategy dated 05.12.2018 (Lower Saxony Ministry of Education and Culture)
- Guidelines and criteria for the accreditation of doctoral degree programmes in Lower Saxony dated 10.07.2015 (Lower Saxony Ministry of Education and Culture)
- Guidelines on the use of study quality funds at the University of Göttingen
- Regulations of the University of Göttingen to ensure good academic practice
- Guideline on the prevention of and protection against sexualised harassment and violence of the Georg-August University Göttingen including the University Medical Center Göttingen