Quality Assurance In Higher Education
Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer
Published: 1992
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780203209554
Subjects: Higher Education
Description: Examines systems of quality assurance in higher education from countries around the world. Authors from Australia, Hong Kong, India, Sweden, the UK, the US and the EC describe a range of international developments and offer varying perspectives on.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Foreword; Editor's Introduction; Quality Assurance in Higher Education; Academic Standards Panels in Australia; The French Comite National d'Evaluation; The German Experience; The Hong Kong Initiative; Towards an Indian Accreditation System; The Netherlands: The Inspectorate Perspective; External Quality Assessment, Servant of Two Masters? The Netherlands University Perspective; Evaluation Criteria and Evaluation Systems: Reflections on Developments in Sweden and Some Other OECD Countries; The UK Academic Audit Unit; The US Accreditation System.; title: Engineering Accreditation in the United StatesMutual Recognition and Transfer of Credits: Developments in Europe; The Experience of Validation at Hong Kong Polytechnic; Quality Assurance at the Open Learning Institute; External Examining at Hong Kong University; Conclusion; Appendix:Abstracts of Additional Papers; Notes on Contributors; Index.