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Teelken, Christine; Lomas, Laurie – Tertiary Education and Management, 2009
This paper focuses on the way lecturers observe, feel restrained by and cope with quality management systems that have been implemented in the higher education systems of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. As two sides of the same coin, quality enhancement and quality control are of increased significance in European Higher Education…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Quality Control, Management Systems, College Administration
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Burquel, Nadine; van Vught, Frans – Tertiary Education and Management, 2010
This paper presents the findings of a two-year EU-funded project (DG Education and Culture) "Benchmarking in European Higher Education", carried out from 2006 to 2008 by a consortium led by the European Centre for Strategic Management of Universities (ESMU), with the Centre for Higher Education Development, UNESCO-CEPES, and the…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Educational Quality, Quality Control, Benchmarking
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Yokoyama, Keiko – Tertiary Education and Management, 2010
The purpose of the study is to identify the patterns of change in higher education institutions. It examines the contexts of the changing quality assurance mechanisms used by the different types of higher education institutions in England, Japan, and New York State between 2001 and 2007. The paper argues that there were no clear patterns of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Quality Control, Organizational Change, Foreign Countries
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Omar, P. L.; Borsheim, A.; Lindesjoo, E.; Solvhjelm, C.; Liuhanen, A-M. – Tertiary Education and Management, 2007
The five Nordic countries and their respective quality assurance agencies have convened annually for over a decade to exchange experiences and discuss issues concerning quality assurance in higher education. In recent years this has resulted in a regional network for the quality assurance agencies (NOQA). During this period, methodological issues…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Quality Control, Interviews, Foreign Countries