EAQE study guide
EAQE · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The EAQE (European Association for Quality in Education) certification is a professional credential for people who design, run, review or research quality assurance in education. Typical candidates work in institutional quality offices, accreditation agencies, ministries or school inspectorates, or move into those roles from teaching, administration or policy. The EAQE study guide has 9 sections and about 4,556 words.
01Quality Assurance Frameworks and Standards in Education
This domain tests whether you can separate a framework from a slogan: which document creates a requirement, at what level it applies, who judges compliance, and what evidence would count. EAQE items usually give a scenario - a college policy, a ministry circular, an agency's criteria set - and ask you to name the governing standard, decide whether practice meets it, or detect a mis-mapped claim.
527 words, about 3 min02Governance, Leadership and Strategic Quality Management
This domain tests how quality is authorised, resourced and steered. EAQE items probe whether you can distinguish governance from management, spot a strategy that is not deployed, and identify where accountability for quality actually sits.
493 words, about 2 min03Internal Quality Assurance and Self-Evaluation
This domain covers the institution's own machinery for assuring and improving quality, and the self-evaluation that feeds it. EAQE items ask you to judge the quality of a self-evaluation report, design a programme review, or diagnose why an internal QA system produces paperwork but no change.
455 words, about 2 min04External Evaluation, Accreditation and Audit
This domain covers the processes by which an outside body judges quality. EAQE items test whether you can choose the right instrument for a purpose, describe a defensible peer-review process, and predict what a panel can and cannot conclude from the evidence it gathers.
516 words, about 3 min05Stakeholder Engagement and Student-Centred Quality
This domain tests how institutions learn from and share power with the people quality affects. EAQE items ask who should be consulted, how student voice is made real rather than ritual, and what distinguishes student-centred provision from student-satisfying provision.
480 words, about 2 min06Data, Indicators and Evidence-Based Decision Making
This domain tests whether you can turn numbers into defensible judgements. EAQE items present a metric, a trend or a dashboard and ask what can and cannot be concluded, which indicator fits the question, and what would make the evidence trustworthy.
500 words, about 3 min07Continuous Improvement and Change Management
This domain tests whether you can convert a finding into a durable change. EAQE items present a weakness (from self-evaluation, external review, or data) and ask for a credible improvement plan, a root-cause diagnosis, or an explanation of why a previous change failed.
497 words, about 2 min08Teaching, Learning and Assessment Quality
This domain tests whether you can judge the coherence of a module or programme: whether outcomes, teaching, assessment and feedback fit together, and whether grades can be trusted. EAQE items typically give a module outline, a rubric or an assessment regime and ask what is wrong and how to fix it.
534 words, about 3 min09Ethics, Transparency and Accountability in Quality Practice
This domain tests conduct: how quality work is carried out, reported and defended. EAQE items put you inside a panel, a quality office or an appeals process and ask what a principled practitioner does when evidence, reputation and confidentiality pull in different directions.
554 words, about 3 min