Neave has argued that 'quality is not “here to stay” if only for the selfevident reason that
across the centuries of the university's existence in Europe, it never departed'(Neave, 1994 …

Some authors (Harvey & Newton, 2006) argue that quality no longer bears a relation to the
core activities of universities. Quality assurance processes are becoming bureaucratic …

Since the 1980s, quality assurance in higher education has grown dramatically, has come to
affect every level of the sector and has become an accepted and integral part of academic …

The paper is a reflection on the pasts and futures of quality assurance in higher education. It
poses questions about the correlation between the geographical and political spread of …

The quality of education provided by a university will be a function of organisational culture
within. The traditional ideal for a university is governance by a collegial process based on a …

Quality assurance in European higher education has reached the top of the political and the
higher education agendas. However, it is just one item on a long list of reform agendas in …

Over the past twenty years, concerted efforts at assuring the quality of higher education
institutions (internally and externally) have acquired the status of prominence, and perhaps …

Quality has become a key term in higher education since the 1980s. There are a lot of
debates on the meaning of quality and its evaluation methods, but quality remains an …

The main argument of this chapter turns around the surely uncontentious claim that over the
past half century, universities in particular, and higher and tertiary education in general (the …

Quality assurance (QA) has become everyday life of the academia in Europe. In some
countries, QA has been in use for over a decade while other countries have adopted it only …