The paper presents preliminary results on the modern history and development of QAE policy and activities at national level in a Swedish context. The contemporary web of Swedish QAE activities and their planned effects are analysed in relation to European (European union) and other international organisations' efforts to influence national policy concerning education. What in European and international ideas on QAE is considered to be of interest for Swedish national policy, and what are the reasons for this? To what degree do Swedish national policy brokers disseminate international QAE policy into the Swedish school system? Are there any obstacles for European policy to impregnate national QAE policy and practise in Sweden? Methodology. The paper is based on the methodology of the international project. We will therefore report preliminary results from textual analysis of national policy documents and interviews with a selection of so called national policy brokers, (i.e. civil servants at the ministry of education and national agencies and researchers involved in international and national activities and for a promoting QAE).Conclusions. We report on work in progress. So far we find Sweden to be historically early equipped with means to control quality in schooling, e.g. inspection in the mid-1800s. In the end of the 1990s, there is a marked increase in national policy efforts in both propositions and in amendments/changes in the Education Act as well as new regulations, increasing the number of QAE activities directed at Swedish schooling. Preliminary conclusions suggest that the recent development of QAE in Sweden is related to a shift in governing policies and practices, and that Swedish harbours an image of doing quite well on QAE policy and practice compared to other European Countries