QUALITY ASSURANCE AND INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITATION IN EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEMS: PROCEDURES AND OPERATIONAL ASPECTS: WORKING DOCUMENT

1995 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 8-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lazar Vlasceanu
Author(s):  
María Matarranz

Two decades have passed from the Sorbonne Declaration in 1999 to the present day, a period of time in which we have witnessed the great changes that have occurred in higher education systems in many countries of the world, specifically the countries belonging to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA).Four countries started by signing the 1999 Declaration, today there are already forty-eight countries involved in the EHEA.In this article, a tour of the milestones that have been shaping and kneading the EHEA is made, addressing the most relevant issues addressed in the different meetings of the ministers of higher education. Next, we will stop at one of the most relevant indicators of the EHEA: the quality assurance systems that, because of the Bologna Process, have been deployed both at the supranational and national levels. We will make an overview of the implementation of educational quality in the countries. Finally, we will reflect on the impact that the perspective of educational quality has had in the countries of the European Higher Education Area. 


Author(s):  
Yulia Stukalina

The purpose of this paper is to provide a synthesis of the official documents that regulate quality as-surance activities in a modern univertsity. The principal objectives of the paper are to discuss the main standards for quality assurance in the European Higher Education Area, and examine the basic criteria applied for international institutional accreditation. The research method used in the paper in-cludes the review of official EU and OECD documents on quality assurance in higher education. The analysis conducted in the paper has allowed the author to identify and summarize key internal and external standards for quality assurance, which education managers should consider in the agenda of the all-inclusive management of an academia.


2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 669-716 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoinette J. Muntjewerff

The Bologna Declaration (1999) started a process of reforming European higher education. The major aim of the declaration was to construct a single European Higher Education Area by 2010,“‥through increased compatibility and comparability of higher education systems in order to facilitate internal mobility for students, graduates and higher education institution staff members, but also to make European higher education more recognisable and attractive to students and scholars from outside Europe.”


Author(s):  
Alina Mihaela Dima ◽  
Cantaragiu Ramona

Financing the higher education systems in European countries is a highly debated topic, and the main issues are related to increasing the level of public funding, increasing the degree of autonomy in the management of the financial resources of universities, establishing direct correlations between results and the amount of public funding, and encouraging the diversification of funding sources, combined with the creation of partnerships with research institutes, enterprises, and regional authorities. This chapter presents a four-tiered research regarding the opinions of the Romanian academic community with respect to: (a) the priority measures used to improve convergence in Higher Education (HE) financing, (b) the most relevant indicators for assessing convergence in financing HE, (c) the barriers stopping or slowing down convergence financing in HE, and (d) the institutions responsible for taking measures and clearing any obstacles in financing the higher education system.


Alter ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 278-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gottfried Biewer ◽  
Tobias Buchner ◽  
Michael Shevlin ◽  
Fiona Smyth ◽  
Jan Šiška ◽  
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