To ensure the regular review of degree programmes as part of the faculty’s quality management system, quality management processes have been established both at the various structural levels of a degree programme and at the different levels of responsibility within the university; these processes are interlinked as part of a general university-wide quality cycle (see the University of Oldenburg’s Quality Management System for Studies and Teaching; the orange QM cycle).

Specifically for the quality assurance of cross-school aspects of study and teaching in teacher training, the University of Oldenburg (UOL) has developed an additional cross-school quality cycle for teacher training degree programmes (see Teacher Training QM Cycle; blue QM cycle).

The general university quality cycle and the cross-school quality cycle for teacher training degree programmes are interlinked. Within the cross-school quality cycle for teacher training degree programmes, cross-school QM aspects are identified and discussed; The outcome is a set of recommendations which are issued via the Teaching Council as the central body (or, every 4–5 years, via the cross-school development meeting) and fed back into the general university-wide quality cycle. In accordance with the faculties’ responsibility for teaching, these recommendations are to be discussed at the (sub-)programme conferences for teacher training subjects and, where necessary, implemented through specific measures and monitored.