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Elken, Mari; Stensaker, Bjørn – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2023
As higher education quality assurance in many countries in Europe has become a mature activity, some agencies carrying out external quality assurance are developing beyond their core tasks and missions. The current study identifies new tasks taken up within quality assurance agencies and analyses the drivers behind such development. Based on an…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Foreign Countries
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Liew, Chia Pao; Puteh, Marlia; Mohammad, Shahrin; Omar, Abdul Aziz; Kiew, Peck Loo – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2021
The programme outcomes or synonymously known as graduate attributes stipulated in the International Engineering Alliance's graduate attributes and professional competencies serve as a benchmark of standards for engineering education to higher learning institutions in Malaysia as well as other signatory countries under the educational accords.…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries, Accreditation (Institutions)
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Cochrane, Catherine – Teaching Public Administration, 2020
Australia's state-based public sector standing anti-corruption commissions each have an education function. The function is underpinned by a largely unquestioned assumption that integrity education will reduce levels of misconduct and corruption in the public sector. This study explores how these commissions undertake evaluations and publicly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Integrity, Public Sector, Deception
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Salto, Dante J. – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Accreditation as a form of quality assurance has spread worldwide. As a result, the public and research interests have targeted the policies that developed agencies and procedures and the responses and effects of accreditation on higher education organizations and programs. However, studies on accreditation have not analyzed two core aspects: the…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Higher Education, Accreditation (Institutions), Incentives
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Daneshvar, Hossein; Goni, Tahiat; Zhang, Sigong; Kelterborn, Reed; Chui, Ying Hei – Education Sciences, 2021
Due to the efficiency, sustainability, and advances in firefighting technologies, the allowable height for wood buildings was increased from 4 to 6 storeys in 2015 and will be further increased to 12 storeys in the 2020 edition of the National Building Code of Canada, as a result of the advent and application of mass timber products. To match the…
Descriptors: Universities, Engineering Education, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students
Zemmahi, Hicham – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Youth houses in Morocco are public institutions that focus on the integration of Moroccan youth in the social and economic fabric of society. The Moroccan Ministry of Youth and Sports made evaluation a pivotal component of its 2030 vision. Yet, it does not involve any mandates for internal evaluations. Given the fierce competition for grants and…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Accountability, Grants, Financial Support
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Brady, Eavan; Holt, Stephanie; Whelan, Sadhbh – Child Care in Practice, 2018
This article provides the reader with an overview of the literature relating to family support services while highlighting a number of key issues for consideration in evaluating these diverse and complex interventions. Drawing on a case example of a family support service evaluation carried out in Ireland in 2014 by the authors, this article will…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Program Evaluation, Intervention, Case Studies
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Sánchez-Chaparro, Teresa; Remaud, Bernard; Gómez-Frías, Víctor; Duykaerts, Caty; Jolly, Anne-Marie – Quality in Higher Education, 2022
Quality assurance in higher education has become a global activity. In the European Higher Education Area, cross-border quality assurance has been heavily encouraged by the European Commission. Behind this, lies the belief that encouraging competition among quality assurance bodies and introducing a liberal 'market' logic into the sector would…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Higher Education, Case Studies
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Salazar, José M.; Rifo, Mauricio; Leihy, Pete – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2022
This study reviews the performance of the Improvement of Quality and Equity in Higher Education programme (MECESUP). MECESUP was executed in three stages between 1999 and 2016 by Chile's Ministry of Education and its directly state-subsidised university sector, with World Bank financing and advisory. The account explores achievements and failures…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Change, Developing Nations, Access to Education
Australian Government Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, 2020
In 2016, following a request from the Minister for Education and Training, the Higher Education Standards Panel (HESP, 'the Panel') delivered 14 recommendations to achieve greater transparency in the admissions information for higher education. This report presents the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency's (TEQSA's) summative…
Descriptors: College Admission, Admission Criteria, Educational Quality, Standards
US Agency for International Development, 2020
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) Education Policy, (the Policy) effective November 2018, guides Agency-wide investments in education and is the primary source of direction for all education programming. The Policy outlines key principles and priority areas that are critical to supporting countries on their journey to…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Outcomes of Education, Decision Making, Public Agencies
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Bush, Tony – Improving Schools, 2017
In seeking to improve student outcomes, governments may choose to exercise direct control over schools, as in many centralised systems, or to provide frameworks for intermediate bodies to engage in improvement activities. One such body is the National College for School Leadership (NCSL), now the National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Improvement, Public Agencies, Government Role
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Hidalgo, Victoria; Pérez-Padilla, Javier; Sánchez, Jose; Ayala-Nunes, Lara; Maya, Jesús; Grimaldi, Víctor; Menéndez, Susana – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
The purpose of this research was to present an overview of the existing family support resources in Spain for at-risk families. We analysed 64 family support services from 16 agencies belong to 11 regions of Spain. In a second phase, 20 positive parenting programmes were analysed in depth to ascertain the extent to which they met evidence-based…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Evidence Based Practice, Parent Education, Parenting Skills
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Quinn, Kirsty; Mollet, Nicola; Dawson, Fiona – Educational & Child Psychology, 2021
Aims: This paper details the evaluation of a reflective learning programme developed by educational psychologists for school leaders in exploring the implementation of compassionate, relational approaches in schools, using an integrated whole school framework. Rationale: Whole school approaches have been highlighted as central to improving the…
Descriptors: Altruism, Guidelines, Instructional Leadership, Well Being
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Leiber, Theodor; Prades, Anna; Alvarez del Castillo, Maripaz – European Journal of Higher Education, 2018
The article reports on a case study of impact evaluation of external quality assurance, i.e. programme accreditation, which was carried out by the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency at Autonomous University of Barcelona in the form of a methodological before-after comparison. The impact evaluation exhibits a marked stability of the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Program Evaluation, Accreditation (Institutions), Educational Quality
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