...Myrte Legemaate; Lydia Schaap Purpose This study aims to examine how improvement and accountability can be effectively aligned in higher education to foster a quality culture at programme level. Design/methodology/approach An in-depth case study was conducted at a Flemish University of Applied...

... ongoing uncertainty in public funding, institutions are faced with new challenges. These challenges are based on the changes in both external and internal operating environments. The changes as a result of external drivers include: Strategy implementation Improvement Strategy development...

... with seven recommendations to improve the present system of PhD examining. A number of the problems that arise with the exam could have been prevented if the departments had been more careful about whom they appointed to the job. How often at an appeals hearing is it argued that an examiner...

... an innovative plan considering the perspective of the philosophy of quality coming from the university‐society relationship: the Pilot Tutorial Project. Concludes that it is quite likely that significant improvements in our university work can be achieved by adopting the philosophy of quality. The results...

... to existing forms of evaluation facing education courses, and offers an alternative constructivist approach based on the notion of a service template. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Teachers Education Distance learning Higher education Quality evaluation Students Improvement The question of what...

... evaluation mechanism as a part of this drive for quality assurance. This paper argues that evaluation systems existing in many institutions are not specific enough to provide useful guidelines for staff and management to improve on their provision. Many evaluation systems the authors have come across are too...

...Graham Badley Outlines a series of initiatives at both national and institutional levels which suggest that British higher education is becoming more serious about improving the quality of university teaching. National initiatives include the Teaching Quality Assessment exercise, the Teaching...

..., and to grade each unit on a five‐point scale. It considers how the management of the department made policy decisions that would enable them to meet the VTC requirements, but would also provide data from which it would be possible to identify areas for improvement. Data were collected from several sources...

.... This is followed by a very detailed analysis of the procedures for both systems and based, on the personal experience of the author, it is recommended that the responsibility of creating the necessary mechanisms for quality assessment and quality improvement should lie with each and every institution, while...

...Ian Michael Roffe Examines the conceptual problems of applying continuous quality improvement in higher education by exploring the general wisdom of its use in industrial practice. Highlights the emphasis given to this problem‐solving approach in the extant advice on quality and the difficulties...

...,enhances quality, is practical, efficient, effective and offers a degree of autonomy. Asserts that putting continuous quality improvement into practice in higher education requires the implementation of key principles of procedure and practical team approaches which are currently far from endemic across...