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The authors report on West European trends in follow-up arrangements of national quality assurance procedures. They argue that external quality assurance ought to adopt a broader conception of quality than is now often the case. Next, the general public ought to have a guarantee that external quality assurance is valid (through meta-evaluation) and has consequences (through follow-up arrangements). Follow-up currently is not well developed in many European countries in a formal sense, but is receiving more attention as external quality assurance is maturing. Finally, the authors link national quality assurance to the European dimension; an international network could fulfil important functions in making quality assurance transparent and credible across Europe.
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Van Bruggen, J.C., Scheele, J.P. & Westerheijden, D.F. To be continued . . . Syntheses and trends in follow-up of quality assurance in West European higher education. European Journal for Education Law and Policy 2, 155–163 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022986005529
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