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François Staring; Stewart Butler; Patricio Ruedi – OECD Publishing, 2025
This Education Policy Perspective serves as Part A in a two-part series of policy papers on "Promoting Quality and Excellence in Higher Education and VET". This first paper (Part A) reviews recent policy developments in the external evaluation and quality assurance of higher education and vocational education and training (VET)…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Higher Education, Career and Technical Education
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Scheerens, Jaap – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1985
This paper summarizes the main results of a meta-evaluation of innovative education programs in Dutch education. Attention is focused on contextual influences, while a case is made for prudent and feasible ways of "rational reconstruction" and for an acitve evaluation policy aimed at overcoming contextual constraints. (LMO)
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Development, Educational Innovation, Educational Legislation
Vandenberghe, R.; Leuven, K. U. – 1989
Educators from Holland and member countries of the Council of Europe attended a symposium on innovation in primary education in the Netherlands. Much of the discussion was based on the evaluation report, "Lessons from Practice: the Primary Education Act Reviewed." Participants evaluated initial, partial research results, and compared…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Cooperation, Educational Change, Educational Development
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Westerheijden, Don F. – Quality of Higher Education, 2005
The history of (external) quality assurance schemes in European higher education since ca. 1980 is sketched in this article. The three pioneering countries in Western Europe are taken as models of different developments and contrasted with the rise of accreditation in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989. Using theoretical insights, the dynamics…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Quality Control, Foreign Countries, Educational History