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ERIC Number: EJ572061
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-0141-8211
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Quality Assurance Mechanisms and Their Use as Policy Instruments: Major International Approaches and the Australian Experience since 1993.
Harman, Grant
European Journal of Education, v33 n3 p331-48 Sep 1998
Explores quality-assurance mechanisms for higher education and their use as a government policy instrument. Outlines several national or system-level approaches adopted worldwide; reviews an Australian quality-assurance program conducted from 1993 to 1995 and its successor program; and comments on ways in which the government used quality assurance as a policy instrument to achieve various goals. (CH)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Foreign Countries, Government Role, Government School Relationship, Higher Education, Institutional Autonomy, Institutional Evaluation, Management Systems, Public Policy, Self Evaluation (Groups)
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Audience: Administrators; Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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