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
