This article focuses on recent trends in quality assurance initiatives, analyses how the
European Higher Education Area promotes quality enhancement mechanisms and their …

The role and function of external quality assurance is of great importance for the
development of an internal quality culture in higher education. Research has shown that …

Purpose The authors' thesis statement is that the literature on quality management in higher
education is evolving towards an idea of integration. Considering Part 1 of the Standards …

The issue of quality enhancement within higher education has attracted considerable
research interest and the article suggest that managerial and cultural approaches have thus …

Since the 1980s, quality assurance in higher education has grown dramatically, has come to
affect every level of the sector and has become an accepted and integral part of academic …

This paper reflects on what we have learned about how quality has been received in higher
education. The complexity of quality policy in terms of implementation is noted, as is the …

By bringing together leading experts on quality assurance in higher education from seven
countries (from Europe, the USA and South Africa), this volume intends to go several steps …

The quest continues to standardise quality assurance systems throughout the European
Higher Education Area (EHEA) under the auspices of the Bologna Process and led by the …

Embedding quality into higher education institutions is a challenging matter given the
complexity of the higher education environment. Although several studies have been …

Along with funding, quality assurance has become one of the major issues in higher
education today. This text provides an analytical account of the changes to quality …