enqa op3v5 Page 1 1 ENQA Occasional Papers Robin Middlehurst University of Surrey, United
Kingdom Quality Assurance Implications of New Forms of Higher Education Part 1: A Typology …

Quality assurance for higher education in Europe has developed significantly since 2002,
and has increasingly influenced, and been influenced by, the Bologna Process. A major step …

This chapter examines the developments in higher education quality assurance worldwide.
It starts by providing an overview of different quality assurance models, their characteristics …

Quality assurance in European higher education has reached the top of the political and the
higher education agendas. However, it is just one item on a long list of reform agendas in …

Quality assurance is well known internationally but the notion is relatively new in Norway. To
understand some of the issues and dilemmas that emerge in the Norwegian reception of …

The term quality assurance in higher education is increasingly used to denote the practices
whereby academic standards, ie, the level of academic achievement attained by higher …

While the establishment of quality assurance has been seen for decades as the most
significant instrument to secure and enhance the quality of teaching and learning in higher …

Given their current ubiquity, it may be surprising to consider that formal systems of quality
assurance in higher education are a fairly new phenomenon. Although the oldest systems in …

The road to hell, the saying goes, is paved with good intentions. Similarly, quality assurance
(QA) systems tend to begin with the best intentions but often end up spawning a 'tick …

While external quality assurance (EQA) can be seen as one of the most visible results of
European integration through the Bologna process in the last few decades, new …