Pub Date : 2023-11-21DOI: 10.1080/13538322.2023.2270398
Paloma Sepúlveda-Parrini, Pilar Pineda-Herrero, Paloma Valdivia-Vizarreta, Sara Rodríguez-Pérez
This article explores the perceptions of 3164 students and 727 teachers about the quality of online higher education in Chile. The aim is to analyse the results collected through two questionnaires...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-06DOI: 10.1080/13538322.2023.2267722
Lina Zenkienė
AbstractThe developments of joint study programmes and their quality practice in the European Higher Education Area are studied. Such programmes are subject to the environment of institutional complexity. Guided by a multi-level approach and the institutional work framework of analysis, the research demonstrates how a particular quality practice is co-created and maintained by the means of policy work, inter-organisational cooperation and everyday work. The relational nature of quality practice is driven by a recursive interaction of processes, events and activities at macro-meso-micro levels. The joint programme quality practice is tied to the concept of fitness-for-purpose with focus on value-added and innovation. The situated nature of quality work is explicated through the empirical account of day-to-day activities and the practical-evaluative agency of joint programme staff. The idealised value of ‘jointness’ in curriculum integration and joint degree award, and quality evaluation culture are addressed with organisational adaptations in a cross-border context.Keywords: Joint programmesqualitycross-border higher educationinstitutional workinstitutional complexityagency AcknowledgmentsThe paper is based on the doctoral work Institutional work of quality in higher education: A study of cross-border joint programmes defended in 2020 at the University of Ghent, Belgium.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
{"title":"Joint programme quality practice in the European Higher Education Area","authors":"Lina Zenkienė","doi":"10.1080/13538322.2023.2267722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13538322.2023.2267722","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThe developments of joint study programmes and their quality practice in the European Higher Education Area are studied. Such programmes are subject to the environment of institutional complexity. Guided by a multi-level approach and the institutional work framework of analysis, the research demonstrates how a particular quality practice is co-created and maintained by the means of policy work, inter-organisational cooperation and everyday work. The relational nature of quality practice is driven by a recursive interaction of processes, events and activities at macro-meso-micro levels. The joint programme quality practice is tied to the concept of fitness-for-purpose with focus on value-added and innovation. The situated nature of quality work is explicated through the empirical account of day-to-day activities and the practical-evaluative agency of joint programme staff. The idealised value of ‘jointness’ in curriculum integration and joint degree award, and quality evaluation culture are addressed with organisational adaptations in a cross-border context.Keywords: Joint programmesqualitycross-border higher educationinstitutional workinstitutional complexityagency AcknowledgmentsThe paper is based on the doctoral work Institutional work of quality in higher education: A study of cross-border joint programmes defended in 2020 at the University of Ghent, Belgium.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":46354,"journal":{"name":"Quality in Higher Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135679167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-11DOI: 10.1080/13538322.2023.2261974
Huong Thi Pham, Phuong Vu Nguyen
AbstractThis qualitative study explored the status of outcomes-based education (OBE) in Vietnam, analysing the strengths and areas for improvement as identified by assessors from the ASEAN University Network-Quality Assurance (AUN-QA) agency in the external assessment reports of 17 study programmes. Convenience sampling was employed to select these programmes. Thematic analysis was used for the narratives of these reports, together with quantitative analysis. The findings indicated that there are some signs of shifting to OBE in Vietnamese higher education as a result of complying with external requirements, yet observed changes tend to be on paper only regarding constructive alignment with curriculum design. The contradictory themes found in this study require further investigation to examine the impacts of AUN-QA on quality improvement in the Vietnamese context. As the research design was limited to content analysis, the voices of various stakeholders towards this regional quality assurance régime have not been fully explored.Keywords: Quality assuranceexternal evaluation reportquality improvementoutcomes-based educationcurriculum design and developmentAUN-QA in Vietnam Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
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Pub Date : 2023-08-17DOI: 10.1080/13538322.2023.2235732
Kyle Grayson, J. Grayson
{"title":"University quality, British league tables and student stakeholders","authors":"Kyle Grayson, J. Grayson","doi":"10.1080/13538322.2023.2235732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13538322.2023.2235732","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46354,"journal":{"name":"Quality in Higher Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86883334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-30DOI: 10.1080/13538322.2023.2241166
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Pub Date : 2023-05-09DOI: 10.1080/13538322.2023.2205568
P. Choudhary, Neeraj Kumar, A. Ahmad, Samreen Akhtar
{"title":"Declining quality of technical education in India: an evidence from Punjab state","authors":"P. Choudhary, Neeraj Kumar, A. Ahmad, Samreen Akhtar","doi":"10.1080/13538322.2023.2205568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13538322.2023.2205568","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46354,"journal":{"name":"Quality in Higher Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91317532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-27DOI: 10.1080/13538322.2023.2192837
R. Eaglen, S. Durning, Holly S. Meyer, C. Candler
{"title":"Evaluating the evaluators: analysis of the structure and processes of seven United States health professions education accreditors","authors":"R. Eaglen, S. Durning, Holly S. Meyer, C. Candler","doi":"10.1080/13538322.2023.2192837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13538322.2023.2192837","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46354,"journal":{"name":"Quality in Higher Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88009296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-28DOI: 10.1080/13538322.2022.2154139
L. Harvey
{"title":"Editorial: Critical social research","authors":"L. Harvey","doi":"10.1080/13538322.2022.2154139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13538322.2022.2154139","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46354,"journal":{"name":"Quality in Higher Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75922461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-28DOI: 10.1080/13538322.2023.2189454
Oliver Vettori
Abstract Time is an omnipresent key dimension in everyone’s life, yet academic time has only recently found scholarly attention. The temporal aspects of quality assurance, in particular, are basically unchartered territory. Taking a chronopolitical perspective, this article aims to close the gap, by critically examining how temporalities are firmly embedded in many quality assurance schemes and routines. Using various examples from internal and external quality assurance, the author demonstrates and discusses how such mechanisms are not only binding time but regulating and governing it, imposing temporal norms regarding tempo, rhythm, time-spans, time-scales and time ownership on higher education institutions and the people working and learning there. Concludingly, the article advocates a more reflective approach towards the notion of time in quality assurance, as latent temporalities appear to be far more consequential for the effectiveness of quality assurance than methodological micro-differences.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-26DOI: 10.1080/13538322.2023.2186170
Ola Holmström, Ola Stjärnhagen
{"title":"Coordination of courses in university programmes and students’ experiences of their studies: student perspectives on the importance of course coordination","authors":"Ola Holmström, Ola Stjärnhagen","doi":"10.1080/13538322.2023.2186170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13538322.2023.2186170","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46354,"journal":{"name":"Quality in Higher Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79230384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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