ESG
Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area
ESG 2015
The Standards and guidelines for quality assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG) were adopted by the Ministers responsible for higher education in 2005 following a proposal prepared by the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) in co-operation with the European Students’ Union (ESU), the European Association of Institutions in Higher Education (EURASHE) and the European University Association (EUA).
Since 2005, considerable progress has been made in quality assurance as well as in other Bologna action lines such as qualification frameworks, recognition and the promotion of the use of learning outcomes, all these contributing to a paradigm shift towards student-centred learning and teaching.
Given this changing context, in 2012 the Ministerial Communiqué invited the E4 Group (ENQA, ESU, EUA, EURASHE) in cooperation with Education International (EI), BUSINESSEUROPE and the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR) to prepare an initial proposal for a revised ESG “to improve their clarity, applicability and usefulness, including their scope’.
The revision included several consultation rounds involving both the key stakeholder organisations and ministries. The many comments, proposals and recommendations received have been carefully analysed and taken very seriously by the Steering Group (SG). They are reflected in the resulting version of the ESG. Moreover this version also reflects a consensus among all the organisations involved on how to take forward quality assurance in the European Higher Education Area and, as such, provides a firm basis for successful implementation.
European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA)
European Students’ Union (ESU)
European University Association (EUA)
European Association of Institutions in Higher Education (EURASHE)
In cooperation with:
Education International (EI)
BUSINESSEUROPE
European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR)
A comparative analysis of the ESG 2015 and the ESG 2005 is available here (courtesy of the EQUIP project).
The following are (unofficial) translations of the ESG 2015 (in alphabetical order):
ESG in Albanian
Translated by the Kosovo Accreditation Agency
ESG In Basque
Translated by Unibasq
ESG In Bosnian
Translated by Suzana Trubajić within the framework of the EU-funded twinning project, “Strengthening Institutional Capacities for Quality Assurance”.
ESG In Bulgarian
Translated by the National Evaluation and Accreditation Agency of Bulgaria
ESG in Catalan
Translated by AQU Catalunya
ESG in Croatian
Translated by the Agency for Science and Higher Education
ESG In Dutch
Translation commissionned by The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
ESG In French By Réseau FrAQ
ESG In Georgian
Translated by Erasmus Georgia
ESG In German
Translated by the German Rectors' Conference
ESG In Hungarian
Copyright Hungarian Translation (C) OFI in cooperation with the Hungarian Accreditation Committee
ESG In Irish (Gaeilge)
Translated by Quality and Qualifications Ireland
ESG In Japanese
Translated by the National institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation
ESG In Kazakh
Translated by the Independent Kazakh Agency for Quality Assurance in Education
ESG In Latvian
Translated by the Academic Information Centre
ESG in Romanian
Translated by the Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education
ESG In Russian
Translated by the National Centre of Public Accreditation
ESG In Russian
Translated by the Independent Kazakh Agency for Quality Assurance in Education
ESG In Slovak
Translated by Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic
ESG In Slovenian
Translated by the Slovenian Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education
ESG In Spanish
Translated by the Aragon Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation
ESG In Spanish
Translated by the National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation of Spain
ESG In Turkish
Translated by Metin Toprak, Istanbul University, Deniz Us, the Council of Higher Education, Mehmet Sengul, the Council of Higher Education
ESG in Ukrainian
Translated by the British Council
Please note that the translations have not been verified by ENQA and that the translating parties bear the responsibility of inaccuracies.
The ESG 2005 is available here.
