TY - BOOK ID - 214026 TI - Quality assurance in higher education : trends in regulation, translation and transformation AU - Westerheijden, Don F. AU - Stensaker, Bjorn. AU - Rosa, Maria Joao. PY - 2007 VL - v. 20 SN - 1281042951 9786611042950 1402060122 1402060114 9048175038 PB - Dordrecht : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Education, Higher KW - Quality assurance KW - Quality control KW - College students KW - Higher education KW - Postsecondary education KW - Universities and colleges KW - Education KW - Education, Higher. KW - Educational tests and measuremen. KW - Higher Education. KW - Administration, Organization and Leadership. KW - Educational Policy and Politics. KW - Assessment, Testing and Evaluation. KW - Higher education. KW - School management and organization. KW - School administration. KW - Educational policy. KW - Education and state. KW - Assessment. KW - Education policy KW - Educational policy KW - State and education KW - Social policy KW - Endowment of research KW - Administration, Educational KW - Educational administration KW - Inspection of schools KW - Operation policies, School KW - Policies, School operation KW - School administration KW - School inspection KW - School operation policies KW - School organization KW - Schools KW - Management KW - Organization KW - Government policy KW - Inspection KW - Management and organization KW - School management and organization KW - Education and state KW - Assessment KW - Higher Education KW - Administration, Organization and Leadership KW - Educational Policy and Politics KW - Assessment, Testing and Evaluation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:214026 AB - By bringing together leading experts on quality assurance in higher education from seven countries (from Europe, the USA and South Africa), this volume intends to go several steps further than most publications on quality assurance. First, it brings together views from micro to macro levels in the multi-actor space, showing how quality assurance impacts the higher education system throughout. Second, it links quality assurance solidly to issues of regulation, translation (rather than mechanical ‘implementation’) and transformation, instead of being only focused on quality assurance as a single policy instrument. Third, it uses this broad range of research insights to criticize current practices, explaining for instance why sometimes people have difficulty in tracing any concrete effects of all initiatives taken in this area. Finally, the book offers proposals for better focusing quality assurance in the future to address institutional challenges better. The general purpose of the book then is to give an engaged, academic reflection on how quality assurance is embedded in higher education and in a dynamic way to assess its impacts and potential improvements. ER -