E-raamat: Quality Assurance in Higher Education: Facts, Concepts and Perspectives

This edited book collects chapters from all over the world to reflect on diverse experiences of quality assurance in higher education in addition to examining its historical evolution and the major concepts pertaining to it. Successful and challenging models and their stories are highlighted, providing the reader with various perspectives considered to bridge gaps in understanding, implementing, and establishing sturdy quality systems among nations. Differences in higher education development appear in the way quality management systems are adopted in their higher education institutions. This book showcases some differences and similarities in the way quality is assured while discussing dilemmas and debates that ensue from the adoption of different models. The target audience of the book includes higher education stakeholders, relevant organizations, professionals from relevant fields, researchers, etc. Further, the book appeals to the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE), the diverse international accreditation bodies, the world commissions relating to quality assurance in higher education, and the HEIs' Quality Assurance Units/Departments.