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Student Participation in Quality Assurance: A Partnership?

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Student participation currently constitutes a relatively consensual and well-defined dimension in most European Quality Assurance (QA) systems. Two main arguments, aligned with two distinct conceptions of students, seem to frame this participation: that of students as key-institutional actors or partners, and that of students as consumers of higher education (HE) (Cardoso, 2012).

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  1. A3ES – Agency for the Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education, and CIPES – Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies, Portugal

    Sónia Cardoso

  2. Department of Economics, Management, Industrial Engineering and Tourism, University of Aveiro and CIPES – Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies, Portugal

    Maria João Rosa

  3. CIPES – Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies, Portugal

    Pedro Videira

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    Laura Lane

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Cardoso, S., Rosa, M.J., Videira, P. (2017). Student Participation in Quality Assurance: A Partnership?. In: Dent, S., Lane, L., Strike, T. (eds) Collaboration, Communities and Competition. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-122-3_8

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