Professor Anthony Dean is one of the founding members of EQ-Arts (Enhancing Quality in the Arts), a quality assurance service for the Higher Education Arts Sector, which was developed as an initiative of ELIA (European League of Institutes of the Arts). Now independent of ELIA, EQ-Arts is a community of trained and highly experienced QA experts who have tested their methodology of institutional review through conducting institutional and subject reviews – specifically within Higher Education Arts provision across Europe. EQ-Arts is already an affiliate of ENQA and is currently working towards becoming an independent accrediting body. This presentation will briefly reflect on the development of EQ-Arts and set out the approach and methodology it has developed in order to provide a critically supportive sectorial approach towards Quality Assurance and Enhancement for the Higher Arts Education.