| Description |
xv,108 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
EIP ; 00/2 |
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Evaluations and Investigations Program report ; 00/2
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| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Quality assurance and accreditation -- Quality and higher education -- The concept of quality -- Quality assurance -- Related concepts -- Accreditation -- Main quality assurance approaches and methodologies -- Concluding comments -- 3. Australian higher education providers and current arrangements for accreditation and quliaty assurance -- International education enrolments -- Current accreditation arrangements -- Special protection for international students -- Assessment -- 4. The changing quality environment and the modern Australian model -- The changing quality environment -- The modern Australian model -- Other options -- 5. Accreditation of courses and institutions -- Responsibility for accreditition -- Greater uniformity of legislation, criteria and processes -- Reporting on accreditation of institutions and courses -- Other compliance functions for accrediting agencies -- Staffing and resourcing of State and Territory acreditation agencies -- Links between accreditation and quality assurance -- 6. Quality assurance and improvement plans -- Comments on suggested model -- Who should require and publish plans and links with institutional audits? -- 7. Quality audits and a new quality agency -- Characteristics of and criteria for the new mechanism -- Legal basis and structure of new agency -- Preferred model -- Review teams will report to the council.nl:/bin/ksh an |
| Analysis |
Electronic resource |
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Higher education |
| Notes |
"DETYA no. 6474 HERCOOA" |
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Evaluations and Investigations Programme, Higher Education Division, Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-108) |
| Notes |
Also available on the Internet at: http://www.dest.gov.au/archive/highered/eippubs/eip00_2/fullcopy00_2.pdf |
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Commonwealth of Australia 2000 |
| Subject |
Education, Higher -- Australia -- Evaluation.
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Quality assurance -- Australia.
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Quality assurance.
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Universities and colleges -- Accreditation -- Australia.
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Universities and colleges -- Australia -- Evaluation.
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| Author |
Meek, V. Lynn (Vincent Lynn), 1948-
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Australia. Department of Education, Training, and Youth Affairs. Evaluations and Investigations Programme
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| ISBN |
0642239924 |
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0642239932 (Online version) |
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