Are the European standards for quality assurance relevant for institutions outside the European Higher Education Area?

Quality assurance, including cross-border quality assurance is a powerful tool for the internationalisation of higher education. Since its launch in 1994, the Institutional Evaluation Programme has been carrying out cross-border institutional evaluations. These have an international philosophy at their core. This study examines whether the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG) are relevant for higher education institutions outside the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). It concludes that the ESG capture universal principles for quality assurance of learning and teaching in higher education and are relevant to higher education contexts outside the EHEA.