Global Trends in Higher Education Quality Assurance

Susanna Karakhanyan, Ph.D. (1971), is President of INQAAHE and her research interests mainly evolve around higher education governance and administration, reforms, policy diffusion and transfer, and external and internal quality assurance. Her research background has helped her tremendously in the establishment of new and evaluation/review of existing external and internal (both quality assurance agencies and higher education institutions) quality assurance systems in a diversity of contexts at the international level.Bjørn Stensaker, Ph.D. (1965), is a professor of higher education, and the director of LINK – Center for Learning, Innovation and Academic Development at University of Oslo. Dr. Stensaker has a special interest in studies of governance and change in higher education, not least in the area of external and internal quality assurance. He has published widely on these issues in a number of international journals and book series.

• PrefaceSusanna KarakhanyanAcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesAcronymsNotes on Contributors1 Introduction: The Background for and the Ambitions of the Current BookSusanna Karakhanyan and Bjørn StensakerPART 1: The Global Study2 External Quality Assurance: The Landscape, the Players and Developmental TrendsSusanna Karakhanyan and Bjørn Stensaker3 Quality Assurance: Legitimacy, Efficiency and Control IssuesBjørn Stensaker and Susanna Karakhanyan4 External Quality Assurance: Comparative ReflectionsSusanna Karakhanyan and Bjørn Stensaker5 Institutional Quality Management: Comparative ReflectionsBjørn Stensaker and Susanna KarakhanyanPART 2: Regional Studies6 QA in Higher Education in Africa: A Synoptic ViewPhilip Ayoo, Wondwosen Tamrat and Mike Kuria7 The Arab States: Quality Assurance Trends in Higher EducationSusanna Karakhanyan, Badr Aboul-Ela, Tariq Alsindi, Bassam Alhamad and Nadia Badrawi8 Internal and External Quality Assurance of Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific RegionAngela Yung Chi Hou, Jianxin Zhang, Dewin Justiniano, Grace Lu and Guo Jun9 Eastern Europe: Quality Assurance Trends and ChallengesSusanna Karakhanyan, Erika Soboleva and Lemka Ismailova10 Latin America and the Caribbean: Quality Assurance Trends and ChallengesChristian Blanco, Judith Scharager, Milena Prado, Anely Ramírez, Ronald Brunton and Michael Bradshow11 Northern America: Quality Assurance Trends and ChallengesLeah Matthews, Mary Catharine Lennon and Linda L. Baer12 Western Europe: Quality Assurance Trends and ChallengesOrla Lynch and Maria KeloIndex