Accreditation and Evaluation in the European Higher Education Area (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Schwarz, Stefanie; Westerheijden, Don F.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume presents a rich account of the development of accreditation and evaluation in 20 European countries. It shows how accreditation is becoming a main mechanism in the steering of higher education across 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 495
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781402027970
• Artikelnr.: 37351202

Autorenporträt

Dr. phil. Stefanie Schwarz ist Geschäftsführerin des Wissenschaftlichen Zentrums für Berufs- und Hochschulforschung der Universität Kassel.

Inhaltsangabe

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.