European Discourse on Higher Education Quality Assurance and Accreditation: Recontextualizations in Greece and Cyprus at Times of ‘Crisis’

Sarakinioti, Antigone; Philippou, Stavroula

doi:10.1080/10564934.2020.1765390

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“…Although its remit from its inception has been to ‘represent QAAs in the EHEA’, to ‘support them nationally’ and to ‘provide them with services and networking’, in recent years its influence has grown. While it is primarily a stakeholder organisation, ENQA has developed a significant role in driving policy concerning QA and is trying to steer the field in new ways (Sarakinioti and Philippou, 2020). ENQA has played a key role in creating, updating and disseminating the ESG, as explained previously.…”

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Beyond Bologna? Infrastructuring quality in European higher education

Grek

Russell

2023

European Educational Research Journal

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Applying qualitative methods, this paper examines the burgeoning of quality assurance databases, processes and networks of actors in the field of higher education in Europe. Our main argument is that there has been a move from the Bologna Process being the near singular focus for European-level coordination and harmonisation of higher education, towards the making of a much more diverse and complex quality assurance and evaluation infrastructure. This infrastructure involves a range of distinct but interdependent actors and processes and contains explicit and implicit interlinkages with the production of wider policy agendas, such as the rise of the European Education Area. The aim of this paper is to analyse the growth and complexity of Quality Assurance (QA) in higher education (HE) in Europe, as a way of understanding the multifaceted and continuously developing process of Europeanisation.

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Beyond Bologna? Infrastructuring quality in European higher education

Grek

Russell

2023

European Educational Research Journal

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“…Although its remit from its inception has been to 'represent QAAs in the EHEA', to 'support them nationally' and to 'provide them with services and networking', in recent years its influence has grown. While it is primarily a stakeholder organisation, ENQA has developed a significant role in driving policy concerning QA and is trying to steer the field in new ways (Sarakinioti & Philippou, 2020). ENQA has played a key role in creating, updating and disseminating the ESG, as explained previously.…”

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Navigating the Market of Measurement: Data, Quality, and Competition

Grek

2023

Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy

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This chapter discusses the rise of a market of measurement over the last decade, as IOs and other data agencies compete for the production of datasets and measures that will become most popular and thus win over other measurement ‘products’. The production of data to support comparative assessment and evaluation is one of IOs’ key organisational remits; therefore, they have vested interests in promoting the implementation of their measures over those of others. Consequently, what we observe is not collaboration towards the construction of the most robust measures but rather a navigation of the market of measurement; this has often led to conflicts and controversies over statistical data collection, as well as market ‘inefficiencies’ and contestations.

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Critical assessment of the Lesotho minimum accreditation standards for Open and Distance Learning (ODL)

Nketekete,

Mojalefa

2024

Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning

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European Discourse on Higher Education Quality Assurance and Accreditation: Recontextualizations in Greece and Cyprus at Times of ‘Crisis’

Cited by 8 publications

References 26 publications

Beyond Bologna? Infrastructuring quality in European higher education

Beyond Bologna? Infrastructuring quality in European higher education

Navigating the Market of Measurement: Data, Quality, and Competition

Critical assessment of the Lesotho minimum accreditation standards for Open and Distance Learning (ODL)

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