Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area: The Emergence of a German Market for Quality Assurance Agencies

Autor/in	Serrano-Velarde, Kathia E.
Titel	Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area: The Emergence of a German Market for Quality Assurance Agencies
Quelle	In: Higher Education Management and Policy, 20 (2008) 3, S.1-18 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1682-3451
DOI	10.1787/hemp-v20-art19-en
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Quality Control; Foreign Countries; Accreditation (Institutions); Institutional Evaluation; National Standards; Standard Setting; Educational Quality; Barriers; Politics of Education; Policy Analysis; Organizational Climate; Delivery Systems; Case Studies; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Qualitätskontrolle; Ausland; Accreditation; Institution; Institutions; Akkreditierung; Staatliche Anerkennung; Institut; Standardisierung; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Politikfeldanalyse; Organisationsklima; Auslieferung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Deutschland
Abstract	Most European countries have introduced systematic quality assurance as part of an overall governance reform aimed at enhancing universities' autonomy. Researchers and economic entrepreneurs tend, however, to underestimate the political dimension of accreditation and evaluation when they consider the contribution of quality assurance to the economic competitiveness of universities and/or the economic system as a whole. I intend to shed light on this aspect of quality assurance by 1) analysing how the provision of quality assurance is constrained by the institutional setting in place, and 2) studying the implications of that constraint on the constitution of a national and international market of quality assurance agencies. I begin the analysis by commenting on the political stake in the emergence of a German market of competing quality assurance agencies, then highlight the irreducible dimension of national politics in creating a European market of quality assurance agencies. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10