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Hsu, Yu-Ping – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
This paper presents an analysis of quality culture (QC) development in Taiwan which has recently undergone major reforms of quality assurance (QA) policies. The implementation of internal quality assurance (IQA) initiatives has been an indispensable condition to form a QC in higher education which contributes to a fundamental and comprehensive…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Foreign Countries
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Lin, Ching-Hui; Chen, Jyun-Hong; Borden, Victor M. H. – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
This study employs a quantitative method to understand the qualities of college experience that impact timely degree attainment. We specifically focus on how low socio-economic background students transition to and navigate the academic and social environment of a selective pubic research university. The study applies a longitudinal analysis to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Experience, Educational Attainment, Economic Factors
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Hou, Yung-Chi; Morse, Robert; Ince, Martin; Chen, Hui-Jung; Chiang, Chung-Lin; Chan, Ying – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
Tertiary education institutions are currently learning to integrate and balance the needs of varying stakeholders, including local students, national governments, and the global market. These three dimensions combine into the concept of a "glonacal"--global?+?national?+?local--region of higher education. At the same time, quality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality Assurance, Higher Education, Accreditation (Institutions)
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Hou, Angela Yung-chi – Studies in Higher Education, 2014
Cross-border higher education has created a need to build capacity -- particularly in the internationalization dimension -- for national quality assurance agencies to evaluate cross-border education provided by foreign educational providers, or jointly by local and foreign institutions. This is quickly becoming a key issue in the Asia-Pacific…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Barriers
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Hou, Angela Yung Chi; Hill, Christopher; Hu, Zoe; Lin, Lily – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Due to global influence and local demand, Taiwan's higher education system has experienced great changes in policy agenda and system reform over the past few decades. After President Tsai took the presidential office in 2016, the Ministry of Education (MOE) shifted its focus towards universities' autonomy and social responsibility, which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Public Policy, Policy Formation
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Wang, Hsiou-Huai – Studies in Higher Education, 2012
Recruiting high-caliber individuals into education programs in higher education institutions to train them to be tomorrow's educators/teachers has been a perennial challenge. Students in education programs are found to be in general lower in academic standing than their counterparts in other fields, reflecting a seemingly distressing phenomenon of…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, College Students