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V. Foreign Higher Education and Education Systems, International Relations, Bilateral Relations
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Author
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BROWN, Roger
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Title
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Mutuality meets the market : analysing changes in the control of quality assurance in United Kingdom higher education 1992 - 2012 |
Publication year
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2013 |
Source/Footnote
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In: Higher education quarterly. - 67 (2013) 4, S. 420 - 437
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Inventory number
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35424 |
Keywords
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Ausland : Großbritannien : Hochschulwesen allgemein ; Qualitätssicherung |
Abstract
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There has been a tendency in the literature to see changes in quality assurance as part of a process of increased state control. This article suggests a more nuanced approach that also takes account of the different trajectories of the pre- and post-1992 sectors. It finds that whilst there have been increases in both state oversight and market coordination since 1992, mutuality (self-regulation) remains the dominant mode of control of quality assurance in the United Kingdom. However the present government's higher education reforms, coming on top of a series of market-based policies for structure, funding and governance going back at least to 1980, as well as a growing emphasis on students' rights as consumers through the courts, may change the picture. (HRK / Abstract übernommen) |