Accreditation and Evaluation in the European Higher Education Area
This volume presents a rich account of the development of accreditation and evaluation in 20 European countries. The authors are leaders in the field and they have cooperated in this effort by writing richly different, often deep and insightful analyses o
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HIGHER EDUCATION DYNAMICS VOLUME 5 Series Editor Peter Maassen, University of Oslo, Norway, and University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Editorial Board Alberto Amaral, Universidade do Porto, Portugal Akira Arimoto, Hiroshima University, Japan Nico Cloete, CHET, Pretoria, South Africa David Dill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Jürgen Enders, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands Oliver Fulton, University of Lancaster, United Kingdom Patricia Gumport, Stanford University, USA Glenn Jones, University of Toronto, Canada
SCOPE OF THE SERIES Higher Education Dynamics is a bookseries intending to study adaptation processes and their outcomes in higher education at all relevant levels. In addition it wants to examine the way interactions between these levels affect adaptation processes. It aims at applying general social science concepts and theories as well as testing theories in the field of higher education research. It wants to do so in a manner that is of relevance to all those professionally involved in higher education, be it as ministers, policy-makers, politicians, institutional leaders or administrators, higher education researchers, members of the academic staff of universities and colleges, or students. It will include both mature and developing systems of higher education, covering public as well as private institutions.
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
ACCREDITATION AND EVALUATION IN THE EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION AREA
Edited by
STEFANIE SCHWARZ University of Kassel, Germany
and
DON F. WESTERHEIJDEN University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSlNESS MEDIA, B.V.
A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN 978-1-4020-5537-9 ISBN 978-1-4020-2797-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-2797-0
Printed on acid-free paper
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Table of Contents Preface 1
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Accreditation in the Framework of Evaluation Activities: A Comparative Study in the European Higher Education Area STEFANIE SCHWARZ & DON F. WESTERHEIJDEN
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Accreditation and Differentiation: A Policy to Establish New Sectors in Austrian Higher Education HANS PECHAR & CORNELIA KLEPP
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Czech Quality Assurance: The Tasks and Responsibilities of Accreditation and Evaluation HELENA ŠEBKOVÁ
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Ministerial Approval and Improvement-Oriented Evaluation in Denmark: An Alternative to Accreditation? DORTE KRISTOFFERSE
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