AEC Framework Document Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Higher Music Education

The discipline of music is intrinsically linked to quality. Music students are constantly asked to perform for committees, auditions, competitions and the concert public. However, the application of external quality assurance and accreditation procedures in music is less consistently developed. The AEC has developed a European
approach to external quality assurance and accreditation in higher music education. The AEC project ‘Accreditation in European Professional Music Training’ initiated in 2006-20078 formulated a set of common European criteria and procedures for external quality assurance and accreditation which has been tested in institutional review visits.

This Framework Document therefore outlines a European music-specific approach to external quality assurance and accreditation. The AEC project on international cooperation in higher music education entitled ‘Mundus Musicalis’ was also considered during the drafting process of this document so as to ensure wider comparability in a global context.