Global trends in higher education quality assurance : : challenges and opportunities in internal and external quality assurance / / edited by Susanna Karakhanyan and Bjo Stensaker.

Globalization, massification of tertiary education, and ICT revolution have radically altered the tertiary education environment posing new challenges to governments, higher education providers and other key stakeholders in terms of relevance and credibility of provisions. With the radical alteratio...

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Superior document:Global perspectives on higher education ; Volume 48
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill Sense,, [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Global perspectives on higher education ; Volume 48.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Susanna Karakhanyan
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Acronyms
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 Introduction: The Background for and the Ambitions of the Current Book
  • Susanna Karakhanyan and Bjørn Stensaker
  • PART 1: The Global Study
  • 2 External Quality Assurance: The Landscape, the Players and Developmental Trends
  • Susanna Karakhanyan and Bjørn Stensaker
  • 3 Quality Assurance: Legitimacy, Efficiency and Control Issues
  • Bjørn Stensaker and Susanna Karakhanyan
  • 4 External Quality Assurance: Comparative Reflections
  • Susanna Karakhanyan and Bjørn Stensaker
  • 5 Institutional Quality Management: Comparative Reflections
  • Bjørn Stensaker and Susanna Karakhanyan
  • PART 2: Regional Studies
  • 6 QA in Higher Education in Africa: A Synoptic View
  • Philip Ayoo, Wondwosen Tamrat and Mike Kuria
  • 7 The Arab States: Quality Assurance Trends in Higher Education
  • Susanna Karakhanyan, Badr Aboul-Ela, Tariq Alsindi, Bassam Alhamad and Nadia Badrawi
  • 8 Internal and External Quality Assurance of Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific Region
  • Angela Yung Chi Hou, Jianxin Zhang, Dewin Justiniano, Grace Lu and Guo Jun
  • 9 Eastern Europe: Quality Assurance Trends and Challenges
  • Susanna Karakhanyan, Erika Soboleva and Lemka Ismailova
  • 10 Latin America and the Caribbean: Quality Assurance Trends and Challenges
  • Christian Blanco, Judith Scharager, Milena Prado, Anely Ramírez, Ronald Brunton and Michael Bradshow
  • 11 Northern America: Quality Assurance Trends and Challenges
  • Leah Matthews, Mary Catharine Lennon and Linda L. Baer
  • 12 Western Europe: Quality Assurance Trends and Challenges
  • Orla Lynch and Maria Kelo
  • Index.