Audits of quality assurance systems of higher education institutions in Finland

This article analyses Finnish higher education institutions' reception of the implementation of the new quality assurance systems that governments participating in the Bologna Process have committed to establishing in the Berlin Communiqué (2003). The data was collected using a websurvey, and the respondents were classified with a cluster analysis.The reception was more positive in the polytechnics than in the research universities, and women were more positive than men. People working in managerial positions were most positive about, and committed to, quality assurance. Most critical were young researchers in research universities working in temporary jobs. Some opinions were so strongly shared that respondents with short work experience expressed their opinions, even though they could not have personal experience of the topic in question. In some topics, respondents without personal experience, but having a critical attitude tended to give their opinion, whereas those with neutral attitude rather abstained from commenting.

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(Re)-reforming external quality assurance in higher education – the Finnish case

Overberg

Lehmkuhl

Schütz

et al. 2020

European Journal of Higher Education

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Audits of quality assurance systems of higher education institutions in Finland

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(Re)-reforming external quality assurance in higher education – the Finnish case

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