Quality Assurance in European Higher Education
Framework and Trends
Keywords:
higher education, Bologna process, quality assurance, quality of educationAbstract
The paper presents the system of quality assurance in European higher education area and its historical formation in the Bologna process. Principal trends, shaping quality assurance at the European level today are analysed. An account of various factors of success and obstacles to implementation at the national and institutional levels of the processes and politics is given. It also addresses the quality assurance arrangement in Slovenian higher education. Furthermore, the paper sets out to trace
the impact that proliferation of an external evaluation and accreditation with the focus on internationalisation and standardisation has had on educational development. Finally, the paper provides an account of the conceptual and strategic shift in external quality monitoring in many countries away from accountability and compliance towards improvement that aims to address and redeem the separation of quality assurance and educational development.
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