Quality Assurance in an International Higher Education Area A Case S
Rethinking the purpose and the aim of higher education has led to new and alternative ways to assure the quality of different higher education systems. In the case studies of six OECD countries, Andrea Bernhard exemplifies the ongoing trends and changes o
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Andrea Bernhard
Quality Assurance in an International Higher Education Area A Case Study Approach and Comparative Analysis
With a foreword by Prof. Dr. Hans Pechar
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Dissertation University of Klagenfurt, 2011 Gedruckt mit Unterstützung der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, des Amtes der Steiermärkischen Landesregierung, Abteilung 3 – Wissenschaft und Forschung sowie des Alfred Schachner Gedächtnisfonds in Graz.
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Foreword
Quality assurance is one of the controversial topics in higher education policy. The doctoral thesis by Andrea Bernhard deals with recent developments on this topic. These developments are strongly shaped by the internationalization of higher education which she calls the “International Higher Education Area”. This is a theoretical construct, because in its present legally codified form, each system of higher education is still a national entity. Bernhard’s thesis addresses the tensions that result from the fact that national higher education regimes are increasingly weakened by global trends. Internationalization is only one of the many factors that have radically changed higher education in OECD countries over the last few decades. Expansion of higher education has reached unprecedented levels since the mid-20th century. All other trends and developments that are addressed in Bernhard’s thesis – including internationalization, diversification, and privatization – can to some degree be regarded as a by-product of this massification. Bernhard explores how quality assurance in teaching and research, a primary concern of universities at all times, has changed under the condition of mass higher education systems and how a formalized framework of quality assurance has emerged. This book contributes significantly to a better understanding of these new arrangements. Prof. Dr. Hans Pechar University of Klagenfurt Faculty of Interd
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