Quality Assurance in an Inteational Higher Education Area

Quality Assurance in an Inteational Higher Education Area:A Case Study Approach and Comparative Analysis (Vs Research)

by: Andrea Felbinger

ISBN-10: 3531185667

ISBN-13: 9783531185668

Edition: 2012

Publication date: November 4, 2011

Paperback: 300 pages
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Book Description
Rethinking the purpose and the aim of higher education has led to new and alteative ways to assure the quality of different higher education systems. In the case studies of six OECD countries, Andrea Behard exemplifies the ongoing trends and changes of quality assurance systems along peer-reviewed country reports and interviews with national and inteational experts. The comparative analysis is based on inteational, descriptive, discursive, and analytical aspects concentrating on the theoretical concepts of massification, diversification, privatisation, and inteationalisation. The author highlights the leading trend towards quality assurance within an inteational higher education area and provides recommendations to establish a functioning quality assurance system within the observed higher education systems and beyond their borders. This book is valuable reading for academics, practitioners, and policy makers in the field of higher education.