In order to give prospective students and employers informative and reliable information on the level and content of education quality assurance is necessary. Quality evaluation must be a driving force in the development of educational quality. The quality assessment of higher education in Sweden is not made by bureaucrats but by academic colleges and students in a peer review. It starts with a self-assessment and continues with external examination. In this system under-performing institutions are given a warning and if the deficiencies are not corrected the institution will in the end lose their right of examination.
Diversity is necessary.
It is positive that there are several ways of creating education programmes and a number of different ways of teaching and learning. Conformity is a risk when using national systems for quality assurance. That is why diversity must be recognized as a positive academic value. Quality assurance is a national issue I maintain that quality assurance must continue to be a national issue. But in order to boost student exchange and movement across borders we must get better information on the quality of education in other countries.