Quality Assurance in Higher Education: Quality, Standards and Recognition

Foreword Preface Inaugural Address Keynote Address Special Address on Initiatives in Quality Assurance in India Special Address on Quality in Higher Education Plenary Session Papers Defining Standards: Expectations Stakeholders in Higher Education: How to Deal with Complexity? Consolidating Enhancement in Higher Education Defining Standards: Developing a Global Currency for Higher Education Qualification Parallel Session Papers The Challenge of Addressing International Standards in Emerging Higher Education Systems Relation between Internal Assurance and External Evaluation of Quality What are we Saying when we Talk about a Higher Education Institution? Should Standards be Assessed by Inputs or Outcomes or by a Combination of Both? Quality and Standards in Higher Education: Contrasting Views from the University of Botswana The Role of UNESCO for Mutual Recognition of Higher Education Qualifications Subject Benchmarking and Academic Freedom Autonomy cum Accountability in Quality Assurance: 43 Years of Experience in the Philippines Corpus Follow up of Programme Evaluation in Catalunya The Internal Quality Assurance System of the Agenda per a la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari a Catalunya Defining International Standards for Level of Qualifications in Higher Professional Education Use of General and Specific Standards for Evaluation inl Higher Education Quality Enhancement in African Higher Education Institutions: Problems and Prospects Constant Quality Assessment: A Necessity in Higher Education Improvement of Quality: Assessment in the Ontario Context Review of Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) Guidelines for the Bachelor Degree and the Postgraduate Qualifications: Making Outcomes More Explicit EQA Agencies: A Case for Mutual Recognition The Introduction of External Academic Audit to New Zealand Polytechnics and Institutes of Technology Evaluating the Regional Role of Universities Processes of Accreditation Based on the Participation of Peers Area de acreditacion de grado CONEAU (Argentina) Building Capacity for Quality: How to Develop an Effective Quality Assurance System for Pan Commonwealth Open and Distance Learning Programmes Enhancing Quality in Tertiary Education through University Affiliation The Australian Higher Education Quality Assurance Framework l for Higher Education Applying Business Quality Principles to Academic Audit: Hong Kong's Second-Round TLQPR Defining Standards: New Directions in Setting Standards in Higher Education Quality Assurance in Agricultural Education Through Accreditation Recognition of Degrees: Methods, Possibilities and Significance Transparency in Accreditation The Australian Universities Quality Agency Genesis and Future Quality: A Picture Tells a 1000 WordsNew Development in Quality Assurance of Japanese Universities: The Growing Importance of the Role of JUAA Conceptualizing and Sustaining Standards In Higher Institutions International Discourse on Quality Enhancement Making Meaning of Assessment Outcomes: The Indian Context Quality and the Market: Global Problems Seen from a National Context Current Developments in Internal Quality Assurance and External Quality Assessment: A South African Perspective Organic Quality in the University and the Mass Market Reporting the Outcome of Quality Assessment Transparency: An Essential Characteristic of the Evaluation of Higher Education? New Quality Assurance System for Japanese Higher Education: What Should be Done by the National Institution for Academic Degrees? Implementation of a New National Strategy for Quality Assurance in Sweden Indicators and Procedures of Assessing on Quality Assurance in Vietnam Higher Education What is Redesign in the ITESM? Towards a Quality Model for Higher Education Who Says B also has to Say A? From Bologna to Accreditation: Design Requirements for Quality Assurance in Europe Educational Standards in Higher Vocational Schools: Polish Case The Polish System of Quality Assurance: Results of Top Down and Bottom Up Initiatives Defining Standards in Academic Disciplines: Keynote on Teacher Training Standards About the Authors and Chief Guests Author Address and Paper Index Subject Index