Quality Assurance In Higher Education de Alma Craft

Quality Assurance In Higher Education

Alma Craft

First Published in 1992. This is a collection of the Proceedings of an International Conference Hong Kong, July 1991. The Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation (HKCAA) hosted an invitation conference on Quality Assurance in Higher Education. Over 100 senior representatives from accreditation bodies and from higher education attended and spent three days in discussion of quality assurance issues. Delegates came from Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Kenya, Korea, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. Edited versions of the formal presentations appear in this publication; together they offer a review of international developments in quality assurance in higher education.

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Part 1 Context 1 Quality Assurance in Higher Education Part 2 International Developments 2 Academic Standards Panels in Australia 3 The French Comité National d’Evaluation 4 The German Experience 5 The Hong Kong Initiative 6 Towards an Indian Accreditation System 7 The Netherlands: The Inspectorate Perspective 8 External Quality Assessment, Servant of Two Masters? The Netherlands University Perspective 9 Evaluation Criteria and Evaluation Systems: Reflections on Developments in Sweden and Some Other OECD Countries 10 The UK Academic Audit Unit 11 The US Accreditation System 12 Engineering Accreditation in the United States 13 Mutual Recognition and Transfer of Credits: Developments in Europe Part 3 Quality Assurance in Hong Kong 14 The Experience of Validation at Hong Kong Polytechnic 15 Quality Assurance at the Open Learning Institute 16 External Examining at Hong Kong University Part 4 Conclusion 17 Conclusion