The Council is responsible for monitoring that the University complies with the laws and rules in force regarding quality assurance in the area of education. The Council must also ensure continuous quality improvement, and update quality assurance and development strategies, procedures and policies comprising the entire University. This includes determining whether current policies and procedures ought to be updated and/or replaced and identifying areas in which the required policies and procedures do not yet exist.

Furthermore, the Council has the overall responsibility for institutional accreditation and accreditation in general and for ensuring the implementation of strategic initiatives in the area of quality assurance.