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Promoting quality enhancement in the uk the experience of collaboration between national agencies 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
There has been a substantial and potentially significant shift in the UK approach to quality in higher education in the last few years. In England, Wales and Scotland there has been a growing interest in quality enhancement to supplement existing frameworks for quality assurance. In the words of the Chief Executive of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA)1 Peter Williams, We are now developing a more active strategy for our contribution to quality enhancement [Williams (http://www.qaa.ac.ure/)]. In this paper, we consider the growing interest in, and attention to, quality enhancement in higher education at a national level in the UK. We trace the rise to prominence of the concept itself and briefly examine the landscape of agencies that have been funded to engage in quality enhancement activity. We then examine the trend towards greater collaboration between these agencies at a national level that led to the formal proposal to bring many of them together into a new national body, which is known as The Higher Education Academy (Academy). We exemplify this collaborative trend by describing how, in the run up to establishing the Academy, the working relationship between two of these agencies the Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN)2 and the Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund (TQEF) National Co-ordination Team (NCT) was facilitated. In the final part of this paper, we engage in a more speculative consideration of the nature of collaboration at a national policy level and relate this to the literature on change management. We look at the barriers to successful collaboration and the prospects for future collaborations in higher education policy agenciesDisclaimer. Although all the authors have worked for, or with, the organisations discussed in this paper, the views expressed are theirs alone and not those of the organisations for which they work or have worked 相似文献
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Fabrizio Trifiro 《Quality in Higher Education》2018,24(2):136-153
This paper presents the findings of a study undertaken by the United Kingdom Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA), with support from the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE), aimed at investigating the challenges and limits to cross-border cooperation in the quality assurance of transnational education. The study builds on the outcomes of the recently concluded Erasmus Mundus project Quality Assurance of Cross-Border Higher Education (QACHE) and in particular the QACHE Toolkit developed as part of the project to foster cooperation between quality assurance agencies in quality assuring transnational education. Based on the responses to a survey sent to QAA’s partner agencies in key sending and receiving countries of transnational education, the study extract recommendations to agencies to help them developing viable strategies for inter-agency cooperation, identifying concrete ways in which they might or might not cooperate across borders. 相似文献
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Colin Raban 《Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education》2013,17(4):112-118
The English Funding Council has announced its intention to invite tenders for the contract currently held by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA), and the Australian government is promoting a Bill to curb the activities of the equivalent body, the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency. This article compares the two agencies, and it draws upon debates and developments in Australia to interpret recent changes in QAA's relationship with universities focusing, in particular, on the significance of the UK Quality Code for Higher Education and the new single review method – Higher Education Review. The authors suggest that QAA's current crisis may have been precipitated by its failure to attend to the concerns of its members (Universities UK and the other representative bodies). The article concludes by proposing three basic principles which should govern the design of any new method for the review of UK higher education institutions. 相似文献
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Tessa Owens 《International Journal for Academic Development》2013,18(1):76-92
National Teaching Fellows (NTFs) in the UK are celebrated individuals who have made a successful claim for teaching excellence to the Higher Education Academy. This paper reports the results of an empirical study of NTFs with expertise in online learning, which measured their pedagogical beliefs and online teaching practices, using a ‘teaching conceptions’ model. Given the growth of online teaching within higher education, this paper seeks to establish whether excellent teachers ‘practise what they preach’ in online environments and can support other less able colleagues in developing their online practices. 相似文献
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英国高等教育外部质量保障体系包括英国高等教育基金委员会、高等教育质量保障署、专业机构和新闻机构等社会组织。牛津大学研究生教育处于英国高等教育外部质量保障体系之下同时又保持本身的自治传统。英国高等教育外部质量保障体系很好地促进了牛津大学的研究生教育的内部质量保障建设。这些成功的经验对我们的研究生教育的质量保障有重要的启示。 相似文献
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Linda A. Barkas Jonathan M. Scott Nicola J. Poppitt Paul J. Smith 《Journal of Further & Higher Education》2019,43(6):801-813
The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), originally proposed in the UK government’s Higher Education White Paper, now the Higher Education and Research Act 2017, is a national mechanism to assess teaching quality in universities. This article provides a critical account of the TEF, underpinned by an overview of the policy context and marketisation and employability agendas exploring the rationale for implementing TEF within universities. We argue, first, that the White Paper’s narrative, the rhetoric of the TEF, seems positive but its implementation appears to be conceptually flawed. Second, its complex quality metrics system demands yet another layer of bureaucracy in an already micro-managed system of higher education. Third, claims made by the White Paper must be supported by evidence-based research to ensure that the objectives are clear. We conclude by questioning whether the quality of the student experience can be improved by the TEF reforms. 相似文献
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制约高职教育教学质量的因素分析与对策研究 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
张旺 《中国教育技术装备》2011,(3):6-7
近些年来,我国高等职业教育事业得到快速发展。在高等职业教育发展的过程中,还普遍存在制约高职教育教学质量的因素。对制约高职教育教学质量的因素进行综合分析,并提出提高高职教育教学质量的几点对策。 相似文献
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张颖 《扬州大学学报(高教研究版)》2007,11(6):27-29
"高等教育本科教学质量与教学改革工程"是新时期深化本科教学改革、提高本科教学质量的重大举措。建设一支高水平的教师队伍是"质量工程"重点建设的六个项目之一,同时也是提高高等学校本科教学质量的重要保证。高校教师应自觉地不断提升自身素质,确保高等教育质量工程有效实施。 相似文献
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《Higher Education Quarterly》1994,48(2):145-155
Mature Women in Higher Education Women Returning to Higher Education. Gillian Pascall and Roger Cox Anatomy of the English Department English People: the experience of teaching and learning English in British universities Bigger But Not Worse? Teaching Large Classes in Higher Education: How to Maintain Quality with Reduced Resources Improving University Teaching Rethinking University Teaching – a framework for the effective use of educational technology Diana Laurillard ‘Learning to Teach in Higher Education’ 相似文献
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土耳其2001年成为博洛尼亚进程签署国之后,在高等教育领域进行了一系列改革,诸如深化学位结构改革,实现学位结构的进一步对等;启动伊拉斯莫项目及与其他国家签订高等教育双边合作协议,进一步加强人员流动与相关资格文凭的互认;制定"高等院校学术评估与质量发展"框架,建立全国性的高等教育质量保障机制;改革高校招生机制以及为学生提供更多服务,推进高等教育公平;出台《终身学习战略文件与行动计划》,推进终身教育发展等等。在改革进程中,土耳其一方面继续其等级制的管理传统,采用自上而下的决策路径,同时开始重视通过组织结构的设置以协调各方的利益表达。 相似文献
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The paper presents a case-study about the experience of leading sector-wide change from within a national agency. This experience is analysed in relation to the literature on leadership and change and against the back-drop of wider social, economic and political changes affecting higher education in the UK -- changes that have parallels in other countries. From the literature, the author draws out certain 'principles' about leading change and highlights the activities that were developed in practice. The case that is discussed is that of the 3-year 'Graduate Standards Programme' mounted by the former Higher Education Quality Council in the UK. This Programme (the GSP) was formally set up to define and establish threshold standards for undergraduate degrees in the UK, but also sought to examine UK approaches to defining and assuring standards in the light of far-reaching changes affecting the higher education system. Lessons about leadership, managing change and quality enhancement in an academic context are drawn out. The author concludes that 'good process' is more important than the static notion of 'good practice' when seeking to create and lead change in higher education. 相似文献
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成人高等教育保障体系是由旨在提高成人高等教育质量的各个因素相互关联而构成的一个立体的、动态的系统。我国成人高等教育质量保障体系的发展是一个漫长的过程。在其发展过程中,国家的方针政策起着重要的作用。建立和完善我国成人高等教育质量保障体系需要国家、社会、市场、学校等方面的大力投入。 相似文献
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高等学校《本科教育教学质量报告》透视(笔谈) 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
教育部拟建立全国高等学校教育教学质量年度报告发布制度,表明我国对高等教育质量的期待已从学校层面上升到了国家意志层面。2011年9月底,39所"985工程"大学首度公开发布了各自的《本科教育教学质量报告》,说明我国高教界已开始对社会期待和问责作出回应。尽管不能说各大学不重视,但它目前还没有很好地发挥信息平台、质量保障和管理监督的功能。作为创建具有中国特色的高等教育质量保障制度的重要举措,它还有待于从质量标准、报告内容和形式等方面进一步规范和完善。 相似文献
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Lee Harvey 《Tertiary Education and Management》2013,19(1):25-35
Abstract The paper presents a case‐study about the experience of leading sector‐wide change from within a national agency. This experience is analysed in relation to the literature on leadership and change and against the back‐drop of wider social, economic and political changes affecting higher education in the UK ‐ changes that have parallels in other countries. From the literature, the author draws out certain ‘principles’ about leading change and highlights the activities that were developed in practice. The case that is discussed is that of the 3‐year ‘Graduate Standards Programme’ mounted by the former Higher Education Quality Council in the UK. This Programme (the GSP) was formally set up to define and establish threshold standards for undergraduate degrees in the UK, but also sought to examine UK approaches to defining and assuring standards in the light of far‐reaching changes affecting the higher education system. Lessons about leadership, managing change and quality enhancement in an academic context are drawn out. The author concludes that ‘good process’ is more important than the static notion of ‘good practice’ when seeking to create and lead change in higher education. 相似文献
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Douglas Blackmur 《Higher Education》2008,56(6):723-734
The International Network of Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education’s Guidelines of Good Practice by higher education
quality assurance agencies need substantial revision before they can be considered adequate by stakeholders in any national
higher education system. Various revisions are proposed in this article. But the International Network of Quality Assurance
Agencies in Higher Education also argues that adoption of its Guidelines of Good Practice has international significance in
that the decisions about higher education quality made by agencies which comply with them can be accepted at face value universally.
This conclusion, however, cannot be accepted until the Guidelines of Good Practice are amended to address the processes whereby
each agency can become comfortable with the criteria and standards which the others impose in their respective jurisdictions.
This article also maintains that, even if the Guidelines of Good Practice were technically perfect, agencies and/or governments
ought to subject any proposals for their implementation to the discipline of rigorous risk management processes.
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近年来, 随着成人高等学历教育扩招后, 在校外设置教学点的现象逐渐增多。认真研究这种办学体系下教学质量的监控问题, 就构建一种适应这种办学体系的办学质量监控系统和机制提出了设想。 相似文献
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1997年英国成立了高等教育质量保证署（QAA）,向英国高等教育提供质量保障服务。QAA初期的工作主要是进行延续审查和学科评估,2002年改革后则采用院校审查的方式来进行评估。QAA的建立与发展过程正是英国高等教育外部质量保障机制不断完善的过程,也是其从注重外部质量保障到注重建立有效的内部质量保障的过程。 相似文献
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Simon Bell Chris Douce Sandra Caeiro Antonio Teixeira Rosa Martín-Aranda Daniel Otto 《Open Learning》2017,32(2):95-102
Higher Education (HE) is experiencing disruption from technologies, demographics, the globalising world and longer life expectancy. Historically Higher Education has had a legacy of being seen as the requirement for an educated ‘elite’, there has been a policy ambition set in various countries (including the UK) for it to become the expectation for much wider segments of the population as a whole. As students become ‘everyone’ and learning becomes ‘all the time’ Distance Teaching and Research Institutions have a tremendous opportunity but there are also many disruptions and barriers to overcome. Higher Education institutions have an important role within Education for Sustainable Development and sustainable lifestyles; one of the important goals and targets of the United Nations Sustainable Development goals for 2030. Higher Education can contribute to sustainability in many ways – social, technical and environmental; globally and locally. In particular distance-learning universities due to the flexibility in the learning process, use of technologies, and inter-disciplinary approach to teaching and learning, constitute key factors in education for sustainable development. But what will this contribution look like? In this paper, the responses from senior leaders in four major European distance-learning universities are presented, compared and discussed. The tentative conclusions draw out some strategic imperatives for sustainable higher education in the twenty first century. 相似文献
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Patrick A. Crookes Steve Outram Fabienne C. Else 《Journal of Further & Higher Education》2018,42(8):1156-1166
This paper provides a commentary on a significant collaborative international project to set up an effective system for promoting innovation in the Australian higher education sector. This project was the pilot Transforming Practice Programme (TPP), which was run in Australia in 2014. A sophisticated knowledge translation methodology, the TPP was influenced by the UK’s Higher Education Academy’s (HEA’s) thematic change programmes and focused on enhancing the reward and recognition of quality teaching in Australian higher education. The paper explains the intentions of the TPP and how it was run in conjunction with the HEA in both Australia and the UK. Thirteen Australian universities took part in the pilot, and nine UK universities took part in the UK version of the programme. Having detailed the content and process of the pilot TPP, this article also presents details of feedback received via surveys and interviews with participants, and closes with some evidence-informed conclusions on what worked in the pilot and why. Alongside these conclusions, recommendations are outlined regarding what people in other higher education sectors might learn from the pilot TPP. 相似文献
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In the last decade ‘quality’ has assumed the status of one of the meta-discourses across many domains of public policy, including education. This paper focuses on the specific example of quality policy in Australian higher education of the 1990s, and in particular, on the micro level of quality policy practice as experienced by academic practitioners in 6 universities. As such, it forms a follow-up to an article published earlier in the Journal of Education Policy (Vidovich and Porter 1997) which examined macro (national) and intermediate (the Committee for Quality Assurance in Higher Education) levels of a quality policy cycle consisting of contexts of influence, policy text production and practice, as articulated by Ball and colleagues (Bowe, Ball and Gold 1992, Ball 1994). The findings of in-depth interviews with key university personnel provide evidence of the ‘messy’ realities of the policy process and considerable variation in quality policy practices at local sites, particularly in terms of the different historical contexts of universities which were categorized as ‘traditional’, ‘alternative’ and ‘former college’ types. However, despite such variation, the ‘bigger picture’ effect of the quality policy under investigation was to enhance Australian national Government control of higher education, albeit at a ‘distance’, characteristic of the culture of performativity increasingly pervading higher education across many OECD countries. A further effect was to increase inequalities, both between and within universities. 相似文献