Editors:
- Comprehensive discussion of the most relevant trends in quality assurance regulation, translation and transformation
- Timely international comparative approach based on a broad geographical and theoretical coverage
- Articulated combination of theoretical issues and empirical analysis
- Rigorous but accessible approach bringing together research outcomes and empirical analysis
- Little focus on specific countries, more on the underlying forces, dilemmas and policy challenges to be found in most systems
Part of the book series: Higher Education Dynamics (HEDY, volume 20)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Translation
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Front Matter
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Transformation
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
By bringing together leading experts on quality assurance in higher education from seven countries (from Europe, the USA and South Africa), this volume intends to go several steps further than most publications on quality assurance. First, it brings together views from micro to macro levels in the multi-actor space, showing how quality assurance impacts the higher education system throughout. Second, it links quality assurance solidly to issues of regulation, translation (rather than mechanical ‘implementation’) and transformation, instead of being only focused on quality assurance as a single policy instrument. Third, it uses this broad range of research insights to criticize current practices, explaining for instance why sometimes people have difficulty in tracing any concrete effects of all initiatives taken in this area. Finally, the book offers proposals for better focusing quality assurance in the future to address institutional challenges better.
The general purpose of the book then is to give an engaged, academic reflection on how quality assurance is embedded in higher education and in a dynamic way to assess its impacts and potential improvements.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Twente, Netherlands
Don F. Westerheijden
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NIFU-STEP, Norway
Bjørn Stensaker
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University of Aveiro, Portugal
Maria João Rosa
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Quality Assurance in Higher Education
Book Subtitle: Trends in Regulation, Translation and Transformation
Editors: Don F. Westerheijden, Bjørn Stensaker, Maria João Rosa
Series Title: Higher Education Dynamics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6012-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6011-3Published: 14 August 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7503-1Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6012-0Published: 04 September 2007
Series ISSN: 1571-0378
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1923
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 264
Topics: Higher Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Educational Policy and Politics, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation