Sustainable Development and Quality Assurance in Higher Education [electronic resource] : Transformation of Learning and Society /
Fadeeva, Zinaida.editor.
Galkute, Laima.editor.
Mader, Clemens.editor.
Scott, Geoff.editor.
To help address the challenges of sustainable development, higher education institutions must transform themselves, bringing together best practice in quality management for tertiary education with best practice in education for sustainable development. This book provides tested strategies and pathways for undertaking this successfully.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Boxes; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; Foreword; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; Structure of the Book; 1 Assessment for Transformation - Higher Education Thrives in Redefining Quality Systems; Part I Transformation of Higher Education in Changing Society: Implications for Quality Management; 2 Rankings and the Reconstruction of Knowledge during the Age of Austerity
3 Linking Quality Assurance and ESD: Towards a Participative Quality Culture of Sustainable Development in Higher Education4 The Role of Assessment and Quality Management in Transformations towards Sustainable Development: The Nexus between Higher Education, Society and Policy; Part II The Meaning and the Role of the Internal Quality Assurance and Its Interplay with External Quality Approaches in Supporting HE Sustainability Transformation; 5 Drivers for Change in the Austrian University Sector: Implications for Quality Management
6 A Quality Assurance System Based on the Sustainable Development Paradigm: The Lithuanian Perspective7 Quality System Development at the University of Graz: Lessons Learned from the Case of RCE Graz-Styria; 8 STARS as a Multi-Purpose Tool for Advancing Campus Sustainability in US; Part III Quality Management and Facilitating Sustainability Competences and Capabilities; 9 Sustainability and Values Assessment in Higher Education; 10 Educating Sustainability Change Agents by Design: Appraisals of the Transformative Role of Higher Education
11 Quality Management of Education for Sustainability in Higher Education12 Implementing Education for Sustainable Development in Higher Education: Case Study of Albukhary International University, Malaysia; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
To help address the challenges of sustainable development, higher education institutions must transform themselves, bringing together best practice in quality management for tertiary education with best practice in education for sustainable development. This book provides tested strategies and pathways for undertaking this successfully.
Education, Higher.
Sustainable development.
Education and state.
Production management.
International and Comparative Education.
Higher Education.
Sustainable Development.
Education Policy.
Operations Management.
Educational Policy and Politics.