As higher education systems expand, there is growing interest in ways of ensuring that academic standards and quality of provision in higher education are maintained. Systems of quality assurance are being reviewed and upgraded in many countries. In Alma Craft's edited collection authors from Australia, Hong Kong, India, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Community describe a range of international developments and offer varying perspectives on quality assurance in higher education. Conflict between institutional autonomy and accountability and between self-assessment and external review is evident throughout and discussed fully in material gathered from the international conference of the Hong Kong council for Academic Accreditation held in 1991. It is aimed at higher education councils and institutions, academics and administrators in higher education.
Author(s): Alma Craft
Year: 1992
Language: English
Pages: 238
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Foreword......Page 8
Editor's Introduction......Page 10
Quality Assurance in Higher Education......Page 18
Academic Standards Panels in Australia......Page 38
The French Comite National d'Evaluation......Page 48
The German Experience......Page 56
The Hong Kong Initiative......Page 74
Towards an Indian Accreditation System......Page 92
The Netherlands: The Inspectorate Perspective......Page 106
External Quality Assessment, Servant of Two Masters? The Netherlands University Perspective......Page 118
Evaluation Criteria and Evaluation Systems: Reflections on Developments in Sweden and Some Other OECD Countries......Page 142
The UK Academic Audit Unit......Page 150
The US Accreditation System......Page 170
Engineering Accreditation in the United States......Page 178
Mutual Recognition and Transfer of Credits: Developments in Europe......Page 190
The Experience of Validation at Hong Kong Polytechnic......Page 200
Quality Assurance at the Open Learning Institute......Page 216
External Examining at Hong Kong University......Page 230
Conclusion......Page 238
Appendix:Abstracts of Additional Papers......Page 242
Notes on Contributors......Page 244
Index......Page 248
