Other publications. Quality Assurance in Higher Education: a Study of Developing Countries
Quality Assurance in Higher Education: a Study of Developing Countries
David LimAshgate2001£37.50ISBN 0754617122
Keywords: Learning, Information technology, Training, School leavers,Higher education, Developing countries
Shows that universities in developing countries have recently followed their counterparts in the developed world in adopting quality assurance to improve the quality of their activities. Examines the wisdom of this when many of the conditions necessary for success are not present. Concludes that quality assurance can be useful in developing countries because it shows how a university's seemingly disparate activities serve a common goal and how the quality of these can best be improved using an integrated approach. Advances the view that quality assurance provides more focus and direction to the work of the traditional university committee system, but it must be modified to suit the conditions prevailing in developed countries by being simple in design, modest in expectations and realistic in requirements.
