Creativity and diversity: challenges for quality assurance beyond 2010: a selection of papers from the 4th European Quality Assurance Forum

The main themes of the 2009 forum were to: (1) gain an understanding of how higher education institutions and [quality assurance] QA agencies' quality procedures and practices take into account the diversity of institutional missions and profiles; and (2) explore how internal and external quality assurance processes may stimulate or hinder creativity and innovative practices in higher education. This publication gathers together a representative sample of the contributions to the forum.

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The papers are as follows: Higher education between the masses and the market: an outsider's reflections about trends in quality assurance / Pedro Nuno Teixeira; 2009 Bologna stocktaking findings on higher education quality assurance / Andrejs Rauhvargers; External quality assurance in the [European Higher Education Area] EHEA: quo vadis?: reflections on functions, legitimacy and limitations / Jon Haakstad; Indicators we live by?: on the quantity-quality dilemma / Johan Falk; Innovation, learning and quality assurance: mission impossible? / Bjorn Stensaker; External quality assurance and accreditation: is there still room to think outside the box? / Evelyn Knoors, with contributions of Ilse Verachtert and Ian Segal; Acronym soup: institutional diversity and the development of quality assurance in Ireland / Bartley Rock; Why respecting diversity and creativity is essential in quality assurance and accreditation processes: observations and experiences from the field of music / Linda Messas and Martin Prchal; Quality assurance alignment / Pedro Lourtie; Quality assurance and internal institutional diversity / Heinz Lechleiter; Quality assurance: a departmental administrator's view / Anne K. Craven. Show less