Implementing and using quality assurance: strategy and practice: a selection of papers from the 2nd European Quality Assurance Forum

This volume presents a selection of papers from the second European Quality Assurance Forum, focusing on the implementation and use of quality assurance. The papers are as follows: Looking back - looking forward: quality assurance and the Bologna process / Sybille Reichert; ‘Flexibilising’ standards?: the role of quality standards within a participative quality culture / Manfred Lueger and Oliver Vettori; Evaluation of teacher competence in Spain: the [Support Program for the Evaluation of Educational Activity of University Professors] DOCENTIA programme / Esteve Arboix Codina and Eduardo Garcia Jimenez; Multiplicity of methods in assessment as a form of quality assurance, quality control and quality improvement / Justin Rami and John Lalor; Introduction of a UK wide, risk-based quality assurance framework for professional education / Roger Thompson; Quality assurance and accreditation in the European Higher Education Area: music as a case study / Martin Prchal; Accreditation and [quality assurance] QA of engineering education in Europe: setting up a pan-European system / Giuliano Augusti, Ian Freeston, Gunter Heitmann and Rene-Paul Martin; The changing political framework of quality assurance in German higher education: national debates in the European context / Johanna Witte; How can external quality assurance support institutional quality management / Anke Hanft and Alexander Kohler; University institutional evaluation and academic achievement / Samuel Fernandez, J. Esteban Fernandez and Alberto Alvarez; The fifteen year evaluation experience in Italian universities with its crisis factors and a desire for Europe / Eliana Minelli, Gianfranco Rebora and Matteo Turri; International review of the Portuguese quality assurance system / Alberto Amaral and Maria Joao Rosa. Show less