ISSN:0951-5224    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2273.1996.tb01699.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe current preoccupation in British higher education with quality assessment, quality assurance and the monitoring of academic standards is traceable to a set of government policies which constitute an agenda for the radical overhaul of the ideals by which higher education has operated in Britain hitherto. Intent on overturning the collegial ethos of British higher education, and determined to replace the notion of a self‐justifying and self‐regulating academic community with a system in which universities operate primarily as pan of the national wealth‐creating process, the Conservative government has used the quality debate to impose upon the universities a culture of compliance with norms of its own choosing. The net result of this process has been a deliberate undermining of academic aut

ISSN:0951-5224    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2273.1996.tb01700.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

AbstractThe Higher Education Funding Council for England was given responsibility by the government of the day for assessing the quality of higher education institutions in England. It decided to make subject areas the focus of these quality assessments, within an objectives‐based approach to assessment. Assessments are made by peer subject assessors during visits to institutions. The report postulates that criteria‘other’than the aims and objectives of the institutions and subjects areas were used in the assessments. An analysis was done of reports of the assessments done in 1993–94. The study identifies which criteria were used and argues that these could be labelled as academic st

ISSN:0951-5224    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2273.1996.tb01701.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0951-5224    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2273.1996.tb01702.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Reviews in this articles:Resolving University ContradictionsThe Changing University?, Tom Schuller (Editor)Staff Development for What?Directions in staff development, Angela Brew (Ed.)Are Adults Moving Centre Stage?Adults in Higher Education—International Perspectives in Access and Participation, Pat Davies (edito

ISSN:0951-5224    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2273.1996.tb01703.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY