Quality Assurance in Education: Volume 23 Issue 3

Self-regulation with rules: Lessons learned from a new quality assurance process for Ontario

Daniel W. Lang

The purpose of this paper is to discuss how the province over time has addressed problems that are generic to many jurisdictions in assuring quality: level of aggregation…

Study expectations of different domiciled Postgraduate-Taught students in a UK post-1992-institution

Michelle Morgan

The purpose of this paper is to report the notable findings of students with different domiciled status. There is a lack of research and understanding of how prior study…

The concepts of quality, quality assurance and quality enhancement

Noha Elassy

This paper aims to critically review and discuss different definitions of the concepts of quality, quality assurance (QA) and quality enhancement (QE) in higher education (HE…

A decade of study on employer feedback on the quality of university graduates

Mahsood Shah, Leonid Grebennikov, Chenicheri Sid Nair

The purpose of this paper is to outline four separate studies undertaken in two Australian universities between 2003 and 2012 on employer feedback on the quality of university…

Academics’ feedback on the quality of appraisal evidence

Chenicheri Sid Nair, Jinrui Li, Li Kun Cai

– This paper aims to explore academics’ perspectives on the quality of appraisal evidence at a Chinese university.

A new factor in UK students’ university attainment: the relative age effect reversal?

Simon J. Roberts, Tim Stott

The purpose of this paper is to study relative age effects (RAEs) in a selected sample of university students. The majority of education systems across the globe adopt age-related…

Perception and awareness of Islamic accounting: student perspectives

Dodik Siswantoro

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the perception and awareness of Islamic accounting of undergraduate accounting students at Universitas Indonesia. The Indonesian…

Editorial

John F. Dalrymple