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Quality Assurance in Further and Higher Education: A SACRIFICIAL LAMB ON THE ALTAR OF MANAGERIALISM
George HolmesPresents the case that in the 1990s further and higher education in the UK is facing unprecedented and increasing levels of market accountability precipitated by the legislative…
Turmoil in Success: THE ASSESSMENT OF TEACHING QUALITY
Peter KnightSketches a number of issues implicated in the assessment of teaching quality in higher education. Argues that checklist approaches to measuring teaching quality have some limited…
Chasing the Chimera of Academic Quality: THE ROLE OF INTERNAL QUALITY AND “META‐QUALITY” AUDITS
Henry Ellington, Gavin RossPresents the general thesis that absolute academic quality is something which must be sought after but, by its nature, can never be fully attained. Describes the quality‐assurance…
Quality Management in Education
Andrew Taylor, Frances HillExamines the applicability of total quality management (TQM) toeducation and summarizes its underlying theory and principles. Discussesthe relationship between quality assurance…
Learner Perceptions of Quality and the Learner Career
Dave Muller, Peter FunnellExplores the concept of quality from the perspective of the learneras part of the learning process. Focuses on the centrality of thelearner in identifying and working towards…
Whose Quality Is It, Anyway?: ASSUMPTIONS UNDERLYING QUALITY MODELS IN FURTHER EDUCATION
Geoffrey ElliottSuggests that, in order to move beyond the rhetoric of qualitydebates at the levels of educational policy and implementation, it isnecessary to ascertain what conceptual…
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- Dr Jeffrey W Alstete
- Dr Heidi Flavian
- Dr Krassie Petrova