“…In the field of higher education the concept of quality is highly controversial (Acevedo, 2008) and complex (Acosta, 2015;Cabrera, 2005;Cardoso, Rosa, and Stensaker, 2016;Harvey and Green, 1993;Larrauri, Espinosa, and Robles, 2015) Its nature has been highlighted as ubiquitous and, as different groups of agents attribute various meanings to it, elusive (Cheng, 2014;Goff, 2017;Gvaramadze, 2008;Harvey and Green, 1993;Nabaho, Aguti, and Oonyu, 2019;Neave, 1986;Newton, 2002Newton, , 2010Prisacariu and Shah, 2016;Weenink, Aarts, and Jacobs, 2018). In many works it is also described as a multidimensional concept (i.e., Avci, 2017;Barreto and Kalnin, 2018;Brunner, 1992;Elton, 1998;Green, 1994;Harvey and Green, 1993;Kleijnen, Dolmans, Willems, and Van Hout, 2013;Krause, 2012;Nabaho, Aguti, and Oonyu, 2019;Reeves and Bednar, 1994;Sarrico, Rosa, Teixeira, and Cardoso, 2010;Scharager, 2018;Toranzos, 1996;Vesce, Cisi, Gentile, and Stura, 2020;Westerheijden, Stensaker, and Rosa, 2007), dynamic (Boyle and Bowden, 1997;Ewell, 2010;Harvey 2005;Westerheijden, Stensaker, Rosa and Corbett, 2014) and relative, as it depends on how it is perceived and conceptualized by different actors in the field (Baird, 1998;…”