Quality and Knowledge Management

Areas of responsibility

Course evaluation is one of the core instruments within the framework of quality assurance in teaching and study operations at the University of Applied Sciences Burgenland. We have been using this feedback instrument for years - this is how we have succeeded in building up a culture of evaluation.

The course evaluation is carried out automatically, whereby the following evaluation forms are used within the framework of the course evaluation:

  • Evaluation form for students (at the end of the course)
  • Evaluation form for lecturers (feedback possibility for lecturers to the programme management)
  • Interim evaluation forms (during the course)

The FH Burgenland is committed to a process-oriented quality management system (PQMS). The aim is to maintain, optimise and continuously update the existing PQMS. The Quality and Knowledge Management Department , Rectorate Directorate structures and documents all relevant processes at FH Burgenland. In this way, work steps are made transparent, responsibilities of involved organisational units and interfaces are defined and process variants are presented.

QM circles are held at regular intervals with various stakeholder groups:

  • Management forum

  • Participation forum

  • University forum

  • Research forum

  • Staff Forum

  • Study and Course Forum

  • Continuing Education Forum

  • ÖH and Alumni Forum

  • QM Forum Offices

Jour-Fixes in the individual departments ensure the transfer of information to the teaching staff.

The results are written down in a protocol and checked in a structured monitoring process and, if necessary, followed up.

Accreditation

Every degree programme offered at the FH Burgenland is quality-assured and accredited by the Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation.

Accreditation applications for new degree programmes are carried out by a development team entrusted by the course-providing body in accordance with the Fachhochschule Accreditation Ordinance.

The Quality and Knowledge Management Department, Rectorate Directorate supports this process with relevant documents, data material and information.

 

Result reports from procedures for the accreditation of study programmes

Bachelor's degree programme International Sustainable Business

Bachelor's degree programme in Midwifery

Master's programme in Health Promotion and Human Resource Management

Bachelor's degree programme in Building Services Engineering and Building Automation

Master's programme in Health Promotion and Health Research

Master's programme in Health Management and Integrated Care

Master's programme in Information Media Communication

Bachelor's programme in Social Work

Master's programme in Integrated Care Management

Bachelor's degree programme in physiotherapy

Bachelor's degree programme in Health Care and Nursing

Master's programme Cloud Computing Engineering

Bachelor's Programme Software Engineering and Networked Systems

 

Notification of cross-border studies according to § 27 HS-QSG

International Joint Cross-border PhD Programmes in International Economic Relations and Management

International Cooperative Cross-Border Interdisciplinary Doctoral Programme in Educational & Communication Sciences

 

Audit

In 2020/2021, the FH Burgenland again underwent an audit according to §22 HS-QSG and now has a valid certification of the internal quality management system by the Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation Austria (valid until 2028).

Audit of the university's internal quality management system (18 - 20 November 2020)


Certification

In February 2017, the FH Burgenland was certified for the first time by TÜV according to ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 29990:2010. This certification with its annual surveillance audits serves the continuous improvement of the process-oriented quality management system.

Provision of information about the study programme:

  • Student notification
  • Staff report (once a year)
  • R&D report (once a year, research and development)
  • Applicant notification (once a year)
  • FMDE
  • QM Circle
  • Member of the Working Committee for Quality Assurance, Academic Degrees, Honours of the College of the FH Burgenland
  • FHK Committee for QM

Here you will find the general conditions for training in a degree programme at the University of Applied Sciences Burgenland.