Core quality framework

Education Quality Core Requirements

The core requirements establish the common education quality conditions used across applicable ICEQC certification schemes and scope profiles.

Education quality documentation review

Role of the core requirements

The core requirements provide a common basis for subjects that recur across education organizations, learning services, digital education and related certification objects. They are applied through a certification scheme that defines the object, scope, evidence route, decision conditions and cycle controls.

A core requirement is not interpreted in isolation from its applicability conditions or the facts of the certified scope. Applicable sector modules may add requirements; they do not reduce the common core.

Quality subjects

Governance and accountability

Purpose, authority, integrity, risk, resources, legal dependencies and management responsibility.

Education design and delivery

Learner needs, intended outcomes, curriculum or service design, implementation, assessment and improvement.

Learners and personnel

Information, access, participation, support, protection, competence, feedback, complaints and fair treatment.

Information and technology

Records, data, privacy, security, accessibility, digital systems, continuity and responsible automated functions.

Authoritative text

The Standards Register identifies the current publicly accessible edition and status. Explanatory summaries do not replace the controlled document text or the applicable certification scheme.