Quality Assuarnce Systems in Selected Universities of Europe: Lessons for RUFORUM.The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) is a consortium of universities involved in Agricultural Education, Training and Research in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa (ECSA). Fundamental components of RUFORUM’s Strategic and Operational Plans are to develop competitive high quality regional MSc and PhD programmes for ECSA. These programmes are now being implemented. They draw resources from regional and global centres of knowledge through partnerships brokered and maintained by RUFORUM. Programme implementation requires a quality assurance mechanism that fosters high standards within the spirit of learning and co-sharing of knowledge. This brief draws on a Scoping Study commissioned by the RUFORUM Secretariat among selected Universities in Europe to draw lessons for a regional quality assurance and credit accumulation transfer system. Please refer to the attached document for more details