The higher education system represents a vital means for a country to nurture its economic development and social cohesion. All over the world there has been an increasing interest in quality assurance (QA) in higher education, reflecting both the growing importance of higher education services...

In recent years, international accreditations from private providers have gained importance among business schools all over the world. Higher education managers increasingly see these accreditations as a way of assuring and developing quality in order to comply with international standards,...

This study uses a new dataset to provide comparative gaps, benchmarking with best performers and policy syndromes of growth quality in 93 developing countries with data for the period 1990-2011. Sigma and Beta estimation strategies are used to provide between and within cross-country...

The quality assurance issue represents at this moment a constantly concerning in order to make more efficient the educational services at all training levels (Universities from Romania). The Romanian universities develop now a large reforming program where the quality issues have a central...

The European concern regarding quality assurance in higher education emerged in 1994-1995, when the European Commission initiated a project meant to experiment a common model of education assessment in member states. Currently, the European Commission has become the coordinator of a European...

In the wake of the revised and ambitious scheme of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) enabled learning in government and government-aided schools, during the 11th plan period (2007-12) and further, this paper addresses with the help of few case studies some of the expected problems...

The universities have to assure the highest level of quality management, to help teachers and students to acquire the European knowledge. The universities must be encouraged to develop better for the promotion of academic and civic values. However, the reality is often quite different: we find...

The paper springs from the real fact that Romanian higher education area needs to be designed and governed in connection with current economic and management trends. Taking into account that Romanian higher education quality systems did not manage to guarantee and gear teaching and learning...

Günümüz dünyasındaki hızlı gelişmeler neticesinde yükseköğretim kurumlarından beklentiler çoğalmıştır. Yükseköğretim hizmetlerinin kalitesinin arttırılması ve bu kurumlarda kaliteyi hedef alan bir yönetim sisteminin oluşturulması zorunlu hale gelmiştir. Qafqaz...

Continuous Quality Improvement is a daunting challenge before all educational institutions of excellence. The inclusion of various stakeholders in the design and delivery of the programs as well as the overall governance of the institutions further complicates the situation. In order to meet the...