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Where Are Quality Frontiers Moving to?

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Quality Assurance in Higher Education

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Neave has argued that ‘quality is not “here to stay” if only for the selfevident reason that across the centuries of the university’s existence in Europe, it never departed’ (Neave, 1994, p. 16), and that evaluation is ‘an intrinsic part of policy making’ (Neave, 1998, p. 265). Indeed, quality has been a permanent concern of universities from the early days of their foundation.

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  1. CIPES and University of Aveiro, Portugal

    Maria João Rosa (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

  2. A3ES, CIPES and University of Porto, Portugal

    Alberto Amaral (Full Professor) (Full Professor)

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Amaral, A. (2014). Where Are Quality Frontiers Moving to?. In: Rosa, M.J., Amaral, A. (eds) Quality Assurance in Higher Education. Issues in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137374639_2

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