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V. Foreign Higher Education and Education Systems, International Relations, Bilateral Relations
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Author MULVEY, Bern (WINSKOWSKI, Christine; COMER, Keith)
Title University accreditation developments in Japan : matching or moving beyond the US process? / Bern Mulvey, Christine Winskowski and Keith Comer
Publication year 2011
Source/Footnote In: Higher education policy. - 24 (2011) 4, S. 535 - 553
Inventory number 31163
Keywords Ausland : Japan : Hochschulwesen allgemein ; Ausland : USA : Hochschulwesen allgemein ; Akkreditierung
Abstract As of 2004, all universities in Japan must submit to an external accreditation evaluation, to be repeated every 7 years. The universities are to receive detailed written assessments in multiple categories from one of four official accrediting agencies. These assessments are to be publicized. The universities also receive grades: pass, probation, and fail. These reforms, 18 years in the making, were initially intended to imitate practices in the US. However, the changes to Japan's university accreditation practices have gone beyond mimicry; indeed, by incorporating aspects of the Bologna process in Europe, they may even point to the future of US accreditation.(HRK / Abstract übernommen)