Quality Assurance In Higher Education

As higher education systems expand, there is growing interest in ways of ensuring that academic standards and quality of provision in higher education are maintained. Systems of quality assurance are being reviewed and upgraded in many countries. In Alma Craft's edited collection authors from Australia, Hong Kong, India, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Community describe a range of international developments and offer varying perspectives on quality assurance in higher education. Conflict between institutional autonomy and accountability and between self-assessment and external review is evident throughout and discussed fully in material gathered from the international conference of the Hong Kong council for Academic Accreditation held in 1991. It is aimed at higher education councils and institutions, academics and administrators in higher education.