TY - BOOK ID - 8507691 TI - Drivers and Barriers to Achieving Quality in Higher Education PY - 2014 SN - 9462094926 9462094942 9462094934 PB - Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, DB - UniCat KW - Education, Higher -- Evaluation. KW - Educational accountability. KW - Universities and colleges -- Accreditation. KW - Education, Higher KW - Universities and colleges KW - Evaluation. KW - Accreditation. KW - Accountability in education KW - Education. KW - Education, general. KW - Responsibility KW - Educational indicators KW - Educational productivity KW - Children KW - Education, Primitive KW - Education of children KW - Human resource development KW - Instruction KW - Pedagogy KW - Schooling KW - Students KW - Youth KW - Civilization KW - Learning and scholarship KW - Mental discipline KW - Schools KW - Teaching KW - Training KW - Education KW - Quality assurance. KW - Quality control UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8507691 AB - 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. ER -