Eight challenges for institutions who wish to handle teaching competence as a strategic quality goal

These challenges concern the active responsibility of institutional management and the professoriate; promoting demands of highest academic standards for educational specialists; selecting an appropriate time-frame and relevant concepts (with a particular focus on the excellence-concept). Further the challenges include the teachers' understanding of their disciplines of educational theories and of research methods relevant for evaluating educational results. The final challenge concerns programs for rewarding teachers. Taken together these challenges presents features which are suggested to promote a quality culture where teaching competence is seen as a long-term quality goal.

This paper was presented at EQAF and reflects the views of the named authors only.