Quality Assurance And Institutional Transformation: The Chinese Experience (higher Education In Asia: Quality, Excellence And Governance)
by Shuiyun Liu /
2016 / English / PDF
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This book illustrates the higher education quality assurance system
and its impact on institutional transformation in China. It starts
by describing the higher education system in China and its quality
assessment schemes. It discusses in detail the Quality Assessment
of Undergraduate Education (QAUE) and the Subject Evaluation, two
of the most influential external quality assessment schemes, which
are conducted on the institutional and subject levels respectively.
In the second part of this book, QAUE is taken as an example for
the impact analysis. Using case studies, it explores the impact of
the QAUE on various dimensions of quality provisions in
universities with different statuses and presents the views of
various stakeholders. Based on the empirical findings from the
Chinese schemes and the theories on organizational change and the
mechanism of external quality assessment, it proposes a model to
describe how quality assessment interacts with the evaluated
universities and causes them to change.
This book illustrates the higher education quality assurance system
and its impact on institutional transformation in China. It starts
by describing the higher education system in China and its quality
assessment schemes. It discusses in detail the Quality Assessment
of Undergraduate Education (QAUE) and the Subject Evaluation, two
of the most influential external quality assessment schemes, which
are conducted on the institutional and subject levels respectively.
In the second part of this book, QAUE is taken as an example for
the impact analysis. Using case studies, it explores the impact of
the QAUE on various dimensions of quality provisions in
universities with different statuses and presents the views of
various stakeholders. Based on the empirical findings from the
Chinese schemes and the theories on organizational change and the
mechanism of external quality assessment, it proposes a model to
describe how quality assessment interacts with the evaluated
universities and causes them to change.
