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GUNI Report "Higher Education in the World"
HEIW 2007: Accreditation for Quality Assurance
The 2007 report, Accreditation for Quality Assurance: What is at Stake?, includes papers from 48 eminent scholars from around the world discussing, from both global and regional perspectives, the issues associated with the accreditation for quality assurance of higher education. Some of the principal issues dealt with are:
- What are the historical and sociological roots of accreditation?
- What are the current mechanisms of accreditation?
- How do they take care of cross-border higher education?
- What are the financial implications of accreditation?
- How to avoid corruption in the process?
- What are the steps to set up an ideal accreditation agency?
- What are the issues at stake in accreditation for quality assurance?
The report seeks giving answers to these questions taking a theoretical analysis and practical evidence as a basis.
Furthermore, more than 100 key experts and professionals responded to a Delphi questionnaire on this issue, which is included in the Report together with statistics, analytical maps and a detailed bibliography.
Parts of the Report are made available on-line in GUNI's Open Content Repository. The entire edition in Spanish can be downloaded from this link.
The table of contents and a sample chapter can be downloaded clicking here.
The report can be acquired through the website of the editorial Palgrave.
HEIW 2007 has also been published in Chinese language by Zhejiang University Press.
