Quality Assurance in an International Higher Education Area

A Case Study Approach and Comparative Analysis
2012
ISBN: 978-3-531-18566-8
Verlag: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Rethinking the purpose and the aim of higher education has led to new and alternative ways to assure the quality of different higher education systems. In the case studies of six OECD countries, Andrea Bernhard exemplifies the ongoing trends and changes of quality assurance systems along peer-reviewed country reports and interviews with national and international experts. The comparative analysis is based on international, descriptive, discursive, and analytical aspects concentrating on the theoretical concepts of massification, diversification, privatisation, and internationalisation. The author highlights the leading trend towards quality assurance within an international 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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bernhard, Andrea

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Transformative Higher Education - Quality Assurance in Higher Education - Research Design - Country Reports: Austria - Germany - Finland - United Kingdom - USA - Canada - Expert Interviews - Comparison and Future Challenges.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Andrea Bernhard is a research fellow at the Department of Educational Science at the University of Graz, Austria.