Quality assurance in higher education : basic concepts

Joint Authors

Gedeon, Pierre
Choueiri, Elias M.

Source

Towards Harnessing Quality in Education and Research : Challenges and Opportunities

Publisher

The Arab Organization of Quality Assurance in Education

Publication Date

2011-06-30

Country of Publication

Jordan

No. of Pages

22

Main Subjects

Business Administration
Educational Sciences

Topics

• Universities
• Higher education
• Colleges
• Conferences
• Quality assurance

English Abstract

The quest for excellence and learner satisfaction represent historic commitments and strong foundations for important higher education milestones relating to Quality Assurance and Accountability.

As we know, quality assurance mechanisms can be used by governments to put pressure on institutions to take account of political priorities.

Similarly, quality assurance mechanisms can be used by universities themselves to steer internally the institution.

By all means, an institution is not an aggregate of departments.

It is really more than the sum of its parts.

The best universities succeed because they provide students, teachers and researchers with an environment-an intellectual community-that promotes debate and critical thinking.

In addition, these institutions consider the experience of students as a whole- inside and outside the classroom-and consider globally the professional roles of academic staff rather than focus on this or that aspect.

This article basically tackles the main definitions and concepts associated with quality assurance with an emphasis on the Bologna and European developments in this respect.

Data Type

Conference Papers

Record ID

BIM-599703

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