ISBN:
9781402027970
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource(XII, 495 p.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2004.
Series Statement:
Higher Education Dynamics 5
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Higher education.
;
Assessment.
;
International education .
;
Comparative education.
;
Education, Higher.
;
Educational tests and measurements.
;
Education
;
Comparative education
;
Educational tests and measurements
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Europäische Union
;
Hochschule
;
Qualitätssicherung
;
Evaluation
;
Internationaler Vergleich
;
Europäische Union
;
Hochschule
;
Akkreditierung
;
Internationaler Vergleich
Abstract:
Accreditation in the Framework of Evaluation Activities: A Comparative Study in the European Higher Education Area -- Accreditation and Differentiation: A Policy to Establish New Sectors in Austrian Higher Education -- Czech Quality Assurance: The Tasks and Responsibilities of Accreditation and Evaluation -- Ministerial Approval and Improvement-Oriented Evaluation in Denmark: An Alternative to Accreditation? -- Three Rounds of Evaluation and the Idea of Accreditation in Finnish Higher Education -- Quality Assurance and Accreditation in the Flemish Community of Belgium -- The Changing Role of the State in French Higher Education: From Curriculum Control to Programme Accreditation -- Shift of Paradigm in Quality Assurance in Germany: More Autonomy but Multiple Quality Assessment? -- The National System of Higher Education in Greece: Waiting for a Systematic Quality Assurance System -- Quality Assurance in Motion. Higher Education in Hungary after the Change of Regime and the First Cycle of Accreditation -- Practice and Procedures Regarding Accreditation and Evaluation in the Irish Republic -- Italy: Accreditation in Progress. Autonomy, Minimum Standards, Quality Assurance -- Latvia: Completion of the First Accreditation Round — What Next? -- Multipurpose Accreditation in Lithuania: Facilitating Quality Improvement, and Heading towards a Binary System of Higher Education -- The Netherlands: A Leader in Quality Assurance Follows the Accreditation Trend -- The Blurring Boundaries Between Accreditation and Audit: The Case of Norway -- Accreditation and Evaluation in Poland: Concepts, Developments and Trends -- Portugal: Professional and Academic Accreditation — The Impossible Marriage? -- A Decade of Quality Assurance in Spanish Universities -- From Audit to Accreditation-Like Processes: The Case of Sweden -- Accreditation and Related Regulatory Matters in the United Kingdom.
Abstract:
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 of the situation in their country. The two editors have added a synopsis detailing the main trends, and sketching commonalities as well as contrasts in the developments across Europe. The book shows how accreditation is becoming a main mechanism in the steering of higher education all over Europe. The book is unique in its analysis of forces driving towards the spread of different models of accreditation in the emerging European Higher Education area. Readers will obtain an up-to-date picture of the state of affairs of accreditation in the framework of evaluation activities in Europe. They will gain an understanding of why accreditation and evaluation systems have evolved the way they have, and subsequently, they will obtain more realistic views on potentialities for European comparability and cooperation in this area.
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; Preface; 1 Accreditation in the Framework of Evaluation Activities:A Comparative Study in the European Higher Education AreaSTEFANIE SCHWARZ & DON F. WESTERHEIJDEN; 2 Accreditation and Differentiation: A Policy to Establish NewSectors in Austrian Higher EducationHANS PECHAR & CORNELIA KLEPP; 3 Czech Quality Assurance: The Tasks and Responsibilities ofAccreditation and EvaluationHELENA ŠEBKOVÁ; 4 Ministerial Approval and Improvement-Oriented Evaluation inDenmark: An Alternative to Accreditation?DORTE KRISTOFFERSEN
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Three Rounds of Evaluation and the Idea of Accreditation inFinnish Higher EducationJUSSI VÄLIMAA6 Quality Assurance and Accreditation in the Flemish Communityof BelgiumDIRK VAN DAMME; 7 The Changing Role of the State in French Higher Education:From Curriculum Control to Programme AccreditationTHIERRY CHEVAILLIER; 8 Shift of Paradigm in Quality Assurance in Germany: MoreAutonomy but Multiple Quality Assessment?ANGELIKA SCHADE; 9 The National System of Higher Education in Greece: Waiting fora Systematic Quality Assurance SystemHARILAOS BILLIRIS
Description / Table of Contents:
10 Quality Assurance in Motion. Higher Education in Hungary afterthe Change of Regime and the First Cycle of AccreditationCHRISTINA ROZSNYAI11 Practice and Procedures Regarding Accreditation and Evaluationin the Irish RepublicMAUREEN KILLEAVY; 12 Italy: Accreditation in Progress. Autonomy, MinimumStandards, Quality AssuranceCARLO FINOCCHIETTI & SILVIA CAPUCCI; 13 Latvia: Completion of the First Accreditation Round -What Next?ANDREJS RAUHVARGERS
Description / Table of Contents:
14 Multipurpose Accreditation in Lithuania: Facilitating QualityImprovement, and Heading towards a Binary System of HigherEducationBIRUT� VICTORIA MOCKIEN�15 The Netherlands: A Leader in Quality Assurance Follows theAccreditation TrendMARGARITA JELIAZKOVA & DON F. WESTERHEIJDEN; 16 The Blurring Boundaries Between Accreditation and Audit:The Case of NorwayBJØRN STENSAKER; 17 Accreditation and Evaluation in Poland: Concepts, Developments and Trends EWA CHMIELECKA & MARCIN DĄBROWSKI; 18 Portugal: Professional and Academic Accreditation - ALBERTO AMARAL & MARIA JOÄO ROSA
Description / Table of Contents:
19 A Decade of Quality Assurance in Spanish UniversitiesJOSÉ-GINÉS MORA20 From Audit to Accreditation-Like Processes: The Case ofSwedenSTAFFAN WAHLÉN; 21 Accreditation and Related Regulatory Matters in the UnitedKingdomJOHN BRENNAN & RUTH WILLIAMS; About the Contributors
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4020-2797-0
Permalink
