Academic mobility is becoming more popular each year. And it is considered to be important, if not the defining instrument of internationalization. Erasmus program and other famous exchange programs.
Marketing Strategies For Universities
A great number of universities each year compete among themselves to attract the best students. But is it really that difficult?
Quality Assurance in US Higher Education
The purpose of this landscape paper is to organize some of the current debates about higher education quality assurance and to present a possible path forward to enable higher education leaders, policy makers, and the twenty-plus million current students to achieve their common goal of improving the success of the sector.
Quality Assurance in US Higher Education: A Path Forward
The current system of quality assurance in the United States, including the roles played by the federal government and regional accreditors; the process of self-evaluation, site-visits, and peer reviews; and the focus on institution-specific processes should be maintained. In addition, there is a number of ways in which this system could be improved to balance greater rigor and transparency with greater flexibility and incentives for institutional improvement and learning.
International approaches to quality assurance in US higher education
Though international developments of HE quality assurance, they do illustrate efforts to create systems that incentivize institutional improvement, organizational learning, and self-regulation while improving sector-wide accountability and rigor.
Management-based approaches to quality assurance in the USA
In the context of higher education quality assurance, more-frequent monitoring has the potential to improve accountability, offer more opportunities for institutional improvement, and reduce the resource burden and tendency for “box-checking” that is criticized in the current process.
Performance-based approaches to reforming US higher education quality assurance
Performance-based regulation reinforces competition among higher education institutions, exacerbating incentives for institutions to keep effective practices to themselves.
US Higher Education Accreditation and Its Critics
Quality assurance sector and accreditation has been around for more than a century in the USA. Today there are more than 7,000 institutions of higher education. Recognizing this diversity, government has historically taken a flexible approach to the regulation of higher education.