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This volume presents a rich account of the development of accreditation and evaluation in 20 European countries. The authors are leaders in the field and they have cooperated in this effort by writing richly different, often deep and insightful analyses of the situation in their country. The two editors have added a synopsis detailing the main trends, and sketching commonalities as well as contrasts in the developments across Europe. The book shows how accreditation is becoming a main mechanism in the steering of higher education all over Europe. The book is unique in its analysis of forces driving towards the spread of different models of accreditation in the emerging European Higher Education area. Readers will obtain an up-to-date picture of the state of affairs of accreditation in the framework of evaluation activities in Europe. They will gain an understanding of why accreditation and evaluation systems have evolved the way they have, and subsequently, they will obtain more realistic views on potentialities for European comparability and cooperation in this area.

#SBIB:316.334.1O211 --- Onderwijsbeleid: internationaal --- Accreditation --- Agrément --- 378.1 --- 371.2 Schoolorganisatie --- 378.1 Interne organisatie. Universitaire autonomie --- Interne organisatie. Universitaire autonomie --- Agrément --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVEDUCA SPRINGER-B --- Education. --- International education. --- Comparative education. --- Assessment. --- Higher education. --- Higher Education. --- International and Comparative Education. --- Assessment, Testing and Evaluation. --- 371.2 --- Schoolorganisatie --- School management --- Higher education --- Europe --- Universities and colleges --- Education, Higher --- Evaluation. --- Universités --- Enseignement supérieur --- Evaluation --- Education, Higher. --- Educational tests and measuremen. --- International education . --- Education, Comparative --- Education --- Global education --- Intellectual cooperation --- Internationalism --- College students --- Postsecondary education --- History --- Colleges --- Degree-granting institutions --- Higher education institutions --- Higher education providers --- Institutions of higher education --- Postsecondary institutions --- Public institutions --- Schools

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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.

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This book addresses the complex phenomenon in higher education of structural reforms in higher education systems. Across the globe, governments initiate comprehensive reforms of their higher education systems because they want their models to be the best and to excel at what they do. This regularly requires governments to change the higher education landscape to achieve their set objectives. Changes can include merger processes, the introduction of a new sector of higher education or a new type of higher education institution or excellence initiative. This book explores the current understanding of how successful such comprehensive reforms have been through an examination of eleven reform cases in European countries. For each reform, the different phases of the policy process – policy objectives, design, implementation, policy tools and evaluation – are systematically described and analysed to provide an overview of the factors that contribute to the success or failure of the reforms. .

Public policy. --- School administration. --- Higher education. --- Education and sociology. --- Sociology, Educational. --- Educational Policy and Politics. --- Administration, Organization and Leadership. --- Public Policy. --- International and Comparative Education. --- Sociology of Education. --- Education, Higher. --- International education. --- Global education --- College students --- Higher education --- Education --- Education. --- Comparative education. --- School management and organization. --- Educational policy. --- ducation and state. --- Educational sociology. --- Higher Education. --- Intellectual cooperation --- Internationalism --- Postsecondary education --- Universities and colleges --- Education and state. --- International education . --- Education and sociology --- Social problems in education --- Society and education --- Sociology, Educational --- Sociology --- Education, Comparative --- Administration, Educational --- Educational administration --- Inspection of schools --- Operation policies, School --- Policies, School operation --- School administration --- School inspection --- School operation policies --- School organization --- Schools --- Management --- Organization --- Education policy --- Educational policy --- State and education --- Social policy --- Endowment of research --- Aims and objectives --- History --- Inspection --- Management and organization --- Government policy