Higher Education in the World 2007. Accreditation for Quality Assurance

Institution	Global University Network for Innovation
Titel	Higher Education in the World 2007. Accreditation for Quality Assurance - what is at Stake?
Quelle	New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2007), XLVIII, 415 S.Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	GUNI series on the social commitment of universities. 2
Beigaben	Literaturangaben S. 408-415; Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monografie
ISBN	0-230-00047-9; 978-0-230-00047-6
Schlagwörter	Welt; Afrika; Arabische Staaten; Asien; Europa; Kanada; Lateinamerika; USA
Abstract	The publication includes papers from scholars from around the world discussing, from both global and regional perspectives, the issues associated with accreditation in higher education. Contents: PART I. GLOBAL ISSUES ON ACCREDITATION (1. Sanyal, Bikas C./Martin, Michaela: Quality assurance and the role of accreditation - an overview. - 2. Brock, Colin: Historical and societal roots of regulation and accreditation of higher education for quality assurance. - 3. Ginkel, Hans J. A. van/Rodrigues Dias, Marco Antonio: Institutional and political challenges of accreditation at the international level. - 4. Uvalic-Trumbic, Stamenka: The International politics of quality assurance and accreditation - from legal instruments to communities of practice. - 5. Salmi, Jamil/Saroyan, Alenoush: League tables as policy instruments - the political economy of accountability in tertiary education. - 6. Singh, Mala: The governance of accreditation. - 7. Hallak, Jacques/Poisson, Muriel: Academic fraud, accreditation and quality assurance - learning from the past and challenges for the future. - 8. Knight, Jane: Cross-border higher education - issues and implications for quality assurance and accreditation. - 9. Eaton, Judith S.: An international accreditation space). - PART II. REGIONAL PERCEPTIONS ON ACCREDITATION (1. Lopez-Segrera, Francisco/Sanyal, Bikas C./Tres, Joaquim: An Overview of regional perspectives on accreditation in today's world. - 2. Okebukola, Peter/Shabani, Juma: Quality assurance and accreditation in higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa. - 3. Babiker, Abdel Bagi A. G.: Quality assurance and accreditation in the Arab Region. - 4. Stella, Anthony: Accreditation of higher education in the Asia-Pacific Region. - 5. Michavila, Francisco/Zamorano, Silvia: Accreditation in the European Higher Education Area. - 6. El-Khawas, Elaine: Accreditation of tertiary education in the United States and Canada. - 7. Dias Sobrinho, Jose: Accreditation of higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean). - PART III. DELPHI POLL ON ACCREDITATION. - PARTI IV. STATISTICAL APPENDIX. (HoF/text adopted).
Erfasst von	Institut für Hochschulforschung (HoF) an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Update	2007/4