Drivers and Barriers to Achieving Quality in Higher Education / / by Heather Eggins.

• VerfasserIn: Eggins, Heather.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed. 2014.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (187 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The topic of achieving and assuring quality in every higher education institution continues to be both relevant and urgent worldwide. This volume presents a considered discussion of a range of facets of the issue, drawing on the findings of a 3 year EU research programme involving seven countries: Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Latvia, Portugal, Poland, Slovakia and the Netherlands. Topics include access, student assessment, governance, stakeholders, academic faculty, information and the interface between the secondary and tertiary sectors. The authors, all of whom are drawn from the research teams, explore particular aspects of the research objectives. These aim to identify the drivers and overcome the barriers to establishing high quality in both European higher education, in relation to the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance and, by implication, in worldwide higher education.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Heather Eggins -- Implementation and Translation / Don F. Westerheijden and Jan Kohoutek -- Policy Drivers and Barriers to Implementation: Contexts of Practice / Ray Land and Julie Rattray -- Questions of Access / Heather Eggins -- Academic Values and the Procedures of Quality Assurance / Ewa Chmielecka -- Two Approaches to Quality Assurance: The ESG and Quality Management Concepts / Jakub Brdulak -- Changes in Governance: Do They Help Overcome Barriers to the Implementation of the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Higher Education? / Amélia Veiga and Cláudia S. Sarrico -- Stakeholders and Quality Assurance in Higher Education / Liudvika Leisyte and Don F. Westerheijden -- Information and Internal Quality Assurance in European and Slovak Higher Education Institutions / Alena Hašková , Ľubica Lachká , Ľubor Pilárik and Julie Rattray -- Moving up: National Qualifications Frameworks, School-University Linkages and the Challenge of Transition from Secondary to Tertiary Education / Catherine Owen and George Gordon -- The Czech Case: Students, Governance and the Interface with Secondary Education / Josef Beneš , Vladimír Roskovec and Helena Šebková -- From Central Regulation to Quality Culture: The Latvian Case / A. Prikulis , A. Rusakova and A. Rauhvargers -- The Portuguese Case: New Public Management Reforms and the European Standards and Guidelines / Maria João Rosa and Alberto Amaral -- Opening up the Black Box / Jan Kohoutek and Don F. Westerheijden -- Contributors / Heather Eggins.