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Dey, Niradhar – European Journal of Higher Education, 2011
Quality assurance (QA) and accreditation in higher education include the systematic management and assessment of procedures to monitor performance and to address areas of improvement. In the context of globalization, without assuring the quality of higher education programmes it is not possible to ensure credit transfer and student mobility, to…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Accreditation (Institutions), Evaluation Criteria, Global Approach
World Education Services, 2014
Based on its research and review of fundamental changes in quality assurance in higher education in India, in 2006 World Education Services (WES) revised its assessment of selected the three-year Bachelor's degree awarded by Indian universities. This policy takes into account specific criteria regarding institutional standing and student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bachelors Degrees, Higher Education, Comparative Analysis
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Cret, Benoit – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2011
The development of accreditation agencies within the Higher Education sector in order to assess and guarantee the quality of services or product is still a growing phenomenon in Europe. Accreditations are conceived by institutional authors and by authors who directly deal with quality assurance processes as a means of legitimization or a means of…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Higher Education, Business Administration Education, Deans
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Dill, David D. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2014
The most recent research on college-student learning in the US by respected scholars such as Richard Arum, Josipa Roksa, and Ernest Pascarella suggests that the nation's means of ensuring academic standards in US colleges and universities are not working effectively. Like US K-12 education and health care, the US higher education system is…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Higher Education, Educational Quality, Grading