18.03 What is the Accreditation Council's position on essential changes?

The Accreditation Council would like to support higher education institutions in further developing their study programmes at any time if they so wish. It therefore wishes to avoid administrative hurdles as far as possible. With this in mind, it interprets the term “essential change” to mean that the duty of disclosure should be limited to the absolute minimum.

This trust in higher education institutions has grown out of administrative practice in recent years: essential changes that were notified were generally well-founded and were almost always approved without conditions.