Abstracts » Education

Regain the right to self-regulate

Article Abstract:

The higher education system in the UK could learn a lot from the quality assurance system that exists in the United States. It is argued that the system of officially recognised - that is recognised by the US Department of Education - regional associations that give general accreditation to degree-awarding institutions in the United States is an object lesson in what self-regulation in the higher education sector really is and that this concept is barely understood in the UK, where the right to self-regulation has been surrendered by vice-chancellors who lack the ability and guts to operate such a system.

Product standards, safety, & recalls, Standards, Analysis

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The QAA's thoroughly bad Apel: a code of practice section on accrediting prior learning dismays Geoffrey Alderman

Article Abstract:

The Quality Assurance Agency's 'Code of Practice for the Assurance of Academic Quality and Standards in Higher Education' is, in the minds of critics, thoroughly absurd for several reasons. The tendency to reduce quality assurance to one prescriptive model may threaten higher education as a profession. Apel, the accreditation of prior experiential learning, must be rethought.

Social policy, Quality management

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A climate of trepidation

Article Abstract:

The author criticizes the proposal to engage humanities research funding with climate change and higher education institutions' business agendas.

Financial management, Science & research, Management dynamics, Research, Management, Finance, Research grants, Research funding, Company business management, Company financing, Education, Humanistic, Humanistic education

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