Quality Assurance in Higher Education

Quality Assurance in Higher Education

A Global Perspective

Edited By

Stamelos Georgios

K.M. Joshi

Saeed Paivandi

2017

STUDERA PRESS

New Delhi

2017 Studera Press. All rights reserved.

ISBN 978-93-85883-27-9

Contents

Preface vii

About the Editors xi

About the Contributors xiii

1 Quality Assurance in Greek Higher Education: Tensions,

Development and Implementation 1

George Stamelos and Aggelos Kavasakalis

2 Swedish Quality Assurance of Higher Education: From

Enhancement to Results Control and Back to Enhancement? 19

Lena Adamson and Petros Gougoulakis

3 Higher Education in Spain: Framework for Quality Assurance 41

Alejandra Montané, José Beltrán and Daniel Gabaldón-Estevan

4 Quality Assurance in Flanders: Towards High Trust in the

Self-Direction of Higher Education Institutions 69

Kurt De Wit

5 Quality Assurance in Higher Education in Argentina:

Assessing its Impact at a Macro and Micro Level 85

Marcelo Rabossi and Ángela Corengia

6 Quality Assurance in Mexico´s Higher Education:

Authorities Trapped in the Iron Cage of Evaluation 101

Jorge Gamaliel Arenas Basurto and Claudia Barona Castañeda

7 Quality Assurance in Indian Higher Education: An

Unfinished Agenda 127

K. M. Joshi and Kinjal V. Ahir

vi Quality Assurance in Higher Education

8 Pride, Prejudice and Challenges in Italian Higher Education 145

Chiara Biasin

9 Quality Assurance in France: The Gradual Emergence of a

New Culture 161

Saeed Paivandi

10 Qualitative Sacrifice for Quantitative Increase: The Case of

the Turkish Higher Education System 183

Serap Emil

11 Quality Assurance in a Small HE System: Is the Icelandic

System in Some Ways Special? 203

Anna Ólafsdóttir and Jón Torfi Jónasson

Index 227