The quality culture at UCM is ensured and implemented in accordance with clear principles.

1. The development of quality culture at UCM is systematic.
2. Staff, students, and other stakeholders provide feedback and suggestions for quality improvement in the areas of education, creative activities, and other related activities, in particular through regular questionnaire surveys of students, alumni, staff and employers, and other stakeholders.
3. Staff, students, and other stakeholders have the right to make suggestions for quality improvement to the relevant structures and to receive feedback on these suggestions.
4. Quality culture also means regular, systematic, sophisticated quality assurance and assessment in all educational, creative, and other related activities.
5. The evaluation shall emphasize independence, impartiality, objectivity, expertise, transparency, and fairness.
6. Where deficiencies in quality are detected, they are corrected in accordance with the relevant internal regulations.
7. New activities or changes are conditional on a reasonable expectation of quality improvement or their introduction or implementation is necessary to maintain quality. This does not apply in the case of changes caused by force majeure.
8. The results of the evaluation are only published once it has been fully completed. This is not the case for interim evaluations.
9. The rules, criteria, and indicators for quality assurance and assessment and their application are regularly evaluated and optimised.
10. UCM transparently evaluates and makes publicly available information about these processes through its website, social networks, and internal information system.

The policies of the VSK UCM ensuring a culture of quality at UCM have an institution-wide scope. They are based on international and national standards, in particular the European Standards for Higher Education ESG 2015, the Higher Education Act and subsequent regulations, the Quality Act and subsequent regulations, the SAAVS standards for the internal system, the study programme, and the habilitation and inauguration proceedings. They are in line with the UCM mission, the UCM long-term plan, and other strategic and conceptual documents of UCM. In justified cases, institution-wide internal regulations are followed by the internal regulations of UCM divisions, in particular when defining criteria according to the customs and specificities of the SO based on institution-wide indicators or the specificities of individual UCM divisions.

• Directive of the VSK UCM
• UCM Work Regulations
• UCM Study Regulations 
• UCM Scholarship Regulations
• UCM Employee Remuneration Directive
• Guidelines for ensuring the performance of work on Saturdays and Sundays
• Directive on the use of official mobile telephones and means of data transmission
• Directive on the use of official motor vehicles
• Directive on domestic missions and travel allowances
• Directive on foreign business trips
• Directive Regulating the Performance of Work from Home – Home Office
• Criteria for Filling the positions of professor and associate professor at the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava
• Principles of the Selection Procedure for Filling the Posts of University Teachers, Research staff, Professors and Associate Professors, and Senior UCM Employees
• Directive on building teams of excellence
• Code of Ethics of UCM in Trnava
• UCM Student Code of Ethics
• Disciplinary Regulations for Students of UCM in Trnava
• Directive on plagiarism
• Equal Treatment and Protection from Discrimination Directive – Gender equality
• UCM Admission Procedure Regulations
• Directive on the Recognition of Completed Courses
• Directive on the Recognition of Educational Documents at UCM
• Directive on the Manner of Using Academic Insignia at the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava
• Directive on External Assessment of the Internal Quality System of UCM
• Directive on the organisation of access to information and communication technologies at UCM
• Directive on the use of the camera system at UCM, Nám. J. Herdu No. 2
• Directive on the use of the camera system at UCM, Skladová 2
• Directive on the rules for the management and use of UCM electronic mail
• Guidelines for Working on the Intramural Computer Network
• Guidelines to Ensure a Generally Accessible Academic Environment for Students with Specific Needs
• Obtaining relevant feedback from stakeholders
• Directive on the Handling of Inquiries, Comments, Opinions, Requests, Suggestions, and Proposals at UCM
• Directive on the Receipt and Handling of Complaints about Anti-social Activities
• Directive on the handling of complaints at UCM
• UCM Guard and Key Regulations
• Operating Regulations of the UCM Registry Centre
• Operating rules of the auditorium
• Operating Regulations of the UCM Student Home
• Guidelines for awarding the medal “UCM Medal”
• Directive on the award of the title of Visiting Professor
• Principles of awarding the honorary degree ,,doctor honoris causa” at UCM
• Principles of awarding the honorary title “Professor Emeritus” at UCM
• Directive on free access to information about the University and payment of the costs of disclosure of information
• Directive issuing the UCM Design Manual and regulating the rules for the use of the UCM identity

The VSK UCM structures ensuring quality culture at UCM are part of the integrated VSK UCM system. The powers, authority, and responsibilities of the relevant structures, including senior staff, other staff, and other stakeholders in the area of quality assurance and development of the UCM quality culture are defined in the relevant internal regulations (in particular statutes, rules of procedure, organisational rules and structures, charters, directives, and procedures). The structures of the VSK UCM ensuring the quality culture at UCM form a three-level system in both vertical and horizontal planes.

The VSK UCM processes ensuring the quality culture at UCM are managed by the relevant structures according to the applicable policies (laws, decrees, regulations, statutes, rules, regulations, codes, directives, guidelines, measures, orders, procedures, and rules).

1. Use of university insignia.
2. Use of visual identity.
3. Valuation at UCM (Rector’s Award, J. Sambucus Award, Dean’s Award).
4. Implementation of external relations.
5. Workflow.
6. Admission procedure.
7. Course of study.
8. Student evaluation.
9. Awarding of degrees and issuance of educational qualifications.
10. Filing and handling of complaints and grievances.
11. Creation, modification, and approval of SP and OHIK.
12. Carrying out a creative activity and producing outputs of creative activity.
13. Carrying out other related activities.
14. Quality assessment.

Quality management at UCM consists of:

• in the adoption and updates of UCM strategic documents,
• in the application of generally binding legislation, European standards, education quality standards, as well as its own specific and developmental criteria and tools,
• in the application of appropriate quality assurance and quality assessment methods,
• in the annual monitoring and evaluation of the fulfilment of the quality standards of education,
• in responding to feedback from key stakeholders on identified issues and risks,
• in taking and implementing measures to remedy identified deficiencies,
• in the subsequent remediation of deficiencies, the introduction of corrective measures, and the monitoring of their implementation,
• in communicating and sharing the actions taken with the external environment.

The quality assessment follows appropriate methods, in prescribed forms, procedures, and periodicity, and its results are made public. (See Periodic quality assessment for more details.)

Publicly accessible UCM documents are structured into generally binding legal regulations (laws, decrees, methodological guidelines, quality standards) and internal regulations of the University (statutes, organizational regulations, charters of incorporation, rules of procedure, electoral regulations, and election policies, constitution, studies, academic area, library, staff, internal administration, information technology, science and research, creative activity, habilitation and inauguration, projects, quality, ethics, control, internal regulations of UCM divisions, collective agreements). They are published in the Legislation section of the UCM website.

Internal UCM documents are also available on the UCM intranet. They consist of the following sections: Internal Regulations, Personal Data Protection (GDPR), Forms, Model Contracts and Documents – Personnel and Legal Department, Model Forms and Documents – Public Procurement. Internal regulations are Rector’s measures, Rector’s orders, Rector’s decisions, Rector’s directives, Rector’s guidelines, Bursar’s guidelines, Vice-Rector’s guidelines, and others. They are available on the UCM intranet, including an archive of repealed regulations.