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Zibeniene, Gintaute; Targamadze, Vilija – Quality of Higher Education, 2006
The article examines harmonization of higher education as an prerequisite of improvement of study quality in Lithuania. It overviews the development of higher education and criteria of university and higher non-university study programmes. An assumption is made that higher university and higher non-university studies are poorly harmonized and the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Educational Development
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Juknyte-Petreikiene, Inga – Quality of Higher Education, 2006
The article presents the analysis of higher education internationalization, its conceptions and forms of manifestation. It investigates the ways and means of higher education internationalization, the diversity of higher school internationalization motives, the issues of higher education internationalization quality assessment, presenting an…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Global Approach, Organizational Change, Educational Practices
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Dienys, Vincentas; Pukelis, Kestutis; Ziliukas, Pranas – Quality of Higher Education, 2005
A number of small countries face similar problems while organising external assessment of higher education institutions: how to select proper experts, how to prepare them and maintain? How to avoid bias or interest conflict between experts who evaluate the institution and the institution being evaluated? How to reduce the financial costs of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Scientific Research, Institutional Evaluation, Quality Control
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Westerheijden, Don F. – Quality of Higher Education, 2005
The history of (external) quality assurance schemes in European higher education since ca. 1980 is sketched in this article. The three pioneering countries in Western Europe are taken as models of different developments and contrasted with the rise of accreditation in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989. Using theoretical insights, the dynamics…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Quality Control, Foreign Countries, Educational History