Background information and goals

The inter-faculty Work Group for Quality and Degree Programme Development was initiated by the Presidium and the faculty management. The aim of the QSE Work Group was to uphold the instructional strategy of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in a participatory working process. The Work Group also seeks to operationally optimise the study conditions and the structures of course supervision and examination administration, both within and across faculties. Another objective is to better interlink study- and quality-related communication processes and make them even more effective.

The commissioned task of the QSE Work Group is based on Framework Agreement V between the state government of Thuringia and the state’s universities (2021-2025) and the Performance and Services Agreement (ZLV) between the TMWWDG and the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (2021-2025).

More specifically, the QSE Work Group is to concern itself with the following tasks:

• Starting and monitoring a participatory process with the aim of upholding the instructional strategy of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
• Developing a regular internal review and decision-making process with external participation for further development of the university’s degree programmes
• Determining and documenting decision-making processes and responsibilities for the establishment, review, further development and discontinuation of degree programmes
• Developing a procedure for dealing with internal university conflicts
• Developing and rolling out an internal system for processing complaints
• Determining and documenting functional control circuits that are standardized throughout the university for ensuring quality management based on the university’s Evaluation Regulations.
• The Vice-President of Academic Affairs and the members of the four faculty management bodies responsible for student and academic affairs are responsible for the overall process. The Presidium asked Institutional Development to coordinate this process.