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Dahlberg, Gunilla – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2016
This article analyses the discourse and practices of quality assurance and quality control through the lens of neo-liberal governing as expressed in economic rationalities such as new public management, total quality management, public choice and human capital. As an alternative to this form of governing, an ethico-aesthetic paradigm is enacted,…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Discourse Analysis, Neoliberalism
Reilly, John; Jongsma, Ard – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2010
The Tempus Programme, which funds cooperation in higher education between universities in EU Member States and a defined set of partner countries outside the European Union, is excellently positioned to support explorations into higher education governance in countries that want to draw on the developing EU experience in this field. Governance is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Quality Control, Governance, Foreign Countries
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Carr, Sarah; Hamilton, Emma; Meade, Phil – Quality in Higher Education, 2005
This paper explores whether it is possible to isolate independent effects of external quality audit (EQA) and concludes that effectiveness evaluations have a stronger foundation when the combined effects of university governance and management initiatives and government initiatives are examined together with EQA. The issue of how successful these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, Institutional Evaluation, Higher Education
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Gappa, Judith M. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1993
Three models for college and university decision-making about scarce resources are outlined: (1) shared governance, (2) corporate management, and (3) total quality management. Two underlying principles of all the models are, first, that faculty are the heart of the institution and, second, that successful institutions are governed through the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Business Administration, College Administration, Governance