QA: less Quality Assurance, more Questioning Assurance! Pleading for complexity, ruptures, and even some joy

This paper raises a number of critical questions concerning QA in its existing forms. In particular it investigates why QA matters mostly remain in the responsibility of university administration instead of becoming an issue of the academic community as a whole and what risks this development can bring. Concluding several alternate approaches are denoted concerning not only internal QA but consequently also external QA and public accountability.

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