Stichting EQ-Arts - Enhancing Quality in the Arts

EQ-Arts supports higher arts education institutions through its provision of both external review and consultancy on their internal process of self-evaluation and enhancement of their quality systems with the aim of promoting a strong quality culture across the European higher arts education sector.

EQ-Arts is an independent sector-specific (Arts) not for profit organisation with two closely related yet distinct activities with a focus on enhancement-led quality assurance for higher arts education across the Europe Higher Education Area (EHEA) and beyond.

EQ-Arts fully embraces the four principles that underpin the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance (ESG) across the EHEA:

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have primary responsibility for the quality of their provision and its assurance;
Quality Assurance should be responsive to the diversity of higher education systems, institutions, programmes and students;
Quality Assurance processes should support the development of a quality culture;
Quality Assurance processes should take into account the needs and expectations of students, other stakeholders and society more widely.