RDAM receives positive institutional accreditation

On 17 March 2022, The Danish Accreditation Council granted the Royal Danish Academy of Music a positive institutional accreditation.

Institutional accreditation gives educational institutions the responsibility and the freedom to establish a system that continuously ensures the quality and relevance of their study programmes. A positive institutional accreditation brings several opportunities, including the possibility to create new study programmes and adjust the existing ones.

The accreditation report drawn up by the Danish Accreditation Institution is enclosed with the decision.

Birthe Friis Mortensen, chair of the Accreditation Council, stated the following concerning the Royal Danish Academy of Music’s first round of institutional accreditation: “They have carried out three reviews of their quality assurance system, and the quality work appears to be thorough and systematic. Good work is done with quality reports, which are based on solid data and contain thorough analyses. Their quarterly status meetings ensure a systematic follow-up to the quality challenges and developmental opportunities that arise in the course of the year, and we can see that the knowledge base, content, organisation and relevance of the study programmes are thoroughly addressed.”

Uffe Savery, President of RDAM, states: “We are extremely happy with the accreditation process and feel that it has brought us to a positive place with an improved and more action-oriented quality assurance policy that functions well. It has been a major task for the Academy to reach this point, and the feedback provided by the panel and the accreditation institution has been very useful to us in our further work. We also very much welcome the flexibility that institutional accreditation will give us in developing our programmes in future.”

Institutional accreditation is valid for a period of six years.