Quality assurance
All relevant institutions, ministries and pedagogical institutes deal with pre-school and school upbringing and education and quality assurance and quality assurance in higher education. Agency for Preschool, Primary and Secondary Education has the authority to establish standards of knowledge, evaluation of the achievements and development of common core curricula.
Responsibility for evaluating the quality of childcare facilities lies with the Office for Birth and Childhood (ONE) and its subordinate bodies.
Overview
The following table provides an overview of external and internal quality assurance (QA) measures that are used in the different education areas in Austria and which are explained in the following chapters. Below the table, the main legal bases of QA are listed.
Fig. 1: Overview of external and internal QA measures and processes in Austria by education areas