According to national concerns, since the signing of the
Bologna Declaration, the search for quality guarantee has
been one focus of attention of the European Higher Education
Area (EHEA). This concern, shared by different stakeholders involved in higher education improvement, has been reinforced
by several communiqués on the advances made in these
processes, as well as the challenges still to be faced. In this
sense, from the conceptualization of what quality implies
and taking into account the important role of discourse in the
implementation of ways to view reality, and consequently, in
social transformation processes, this chapter offers an analysis
of these different dimensions of quality underlying EHEA
discourses.This analysis has enabled us to notice that within the
framework of the two main tendencies of quality, discourses
promote an excision between quality and equity, and that the
latter, though present in the different communiqués resulting
from ministerial meetings, is still listed within the framework
of social responsibility and that little progress towards it can
be verified. This calls for a revision of this conception based
on understanding education not as a product but as a right.