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1 online resource (294 pages) |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Theoretical Approach -- 1. Transformative Higher Education -- 1.1. Rise of Higher Education Systems -- 1.2. Concept of Massification -- 1.3. Concept of Diversification -- 1.4. Privatisation of Higher Education -- 1.5. Internationalisation of Higher Education -- 2. Quality Assurance in Higher Education -- 2.1. Rise of Quality Assurance -- 2.2. Quality / Quality Assurance Definitions -- 2.3. Quality Assurance Systems and their Critics -- 2.4. Quality Assurance in an International Perspective -- Research Design -- 3. Methodology and Operationalisation -- 3.1. Methodological Approach -- 3.2. Research Instruments -- Country Reports -- 4. Austria -- 4.1. Facts and Figures -- 4.2. Governance and Funding -- 4.3. Quality Assurance -- 5. Germany -- 5.1. Facts and Figures -- 5.2. Governance and Funding -- 5.3. Quality Assurance -- 6 |
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Note continued: 13.4. Theoretical Concepts and Assumptions -- 14. Theory, Methodology and Reality |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Education |
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Education (general) |
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Diss.-- University of Klagenfurt, 2011 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-285) |
| Subject |
Education, Higher -- Evaluation
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Higher education and state.
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EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
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EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General.
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Education.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Education, Higher -- Evaluation
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Higher education and state
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dissertations.
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Academic theses
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Academic theses.
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Thèses et écrits académiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783531942988 |
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3531942980 |
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