Approval
Verify identity, capacity, programme and evidence before any authorisation to teach.
Quality assurance
Approve, oversee and improve what the Academy authorises to be taught and issued.
A quality culture grounded in evidence.
AEES quality arrangements cover the full academic cycle: award design, institutional approval, programme approval, assessment integrity, student information and continuous improvement. They translate the Academy’s requirements into observable criteria and clearly assigned responsibilities.
The Academy steers this framework from France. Partner institutions apply it in their territories, for the published scope and period. Each requirement is documented through dated material: responsibilities, files, assessment samples, information given to students and improvement actions.
The AEES quality framework, version 2026.1, organises review around nine domains. Approval, assessment control and appeal routes are its public instruments. A decision may result in approval, conditions, deferral, refusal, suspension or withdrawal.
The review cycle.
Each stage leaves a record: who reviewed, who decided, within which scope, until which date.
Delivery
Keep to the approved scope, inform students and retain records throughout the published period.
Assessment
Secure papers, candidate identity, marking, moderation and boards.
Monitoring and renewal
Review outcomes, incidents and complaints; re-examine before the approval expires.
Quality assurance at two levels.
The institution and programme are reviewed together to ensure coherence between academic ambition and delivery capacity.
Institutional quality
Institutional approval considers governance, resources, the learning environment, student information and the institution’s monitoring capacity.
Decisions specify the authorised scope, quality commitments, monitoring deadlines and renewal conditions.
Programme quality
Programme approval examines the relevance of objectives, alignment of content and assessment, and the competence of the teaching team.
Monitoring draws on outcomes, student feedback, academic incidents and documented improvement plans.
Read the public criteria.
The framework describes what is reviewed. The other pages in this section describe how it is examined.
Documents and procedures
Move from principles to observable criteria
The framework, approval process, assessment controls and appeal routes each describe a distinct part of the quality system.