Higher Education and Quality Assurance: Trends and Tensions in Asia

10.6197/EHE.2008.0202.02

John N. Hawkins

Higher Education ； Quality Assurance ； Decentralization

Evaluation in Higher Education

2卷2期（2008 / 12 / 01）

1 - 21

英文

The context in which the heightened interest in QA occurs in Asia is worth noting. Just as we watched the ”happy anarchy” of HE change in the United States in the 1970's and 1980's, universities in Asia are also experiencing a somewhat different shift in emphasis between themselves and their host societies. While HE decentralization is occurring on the one hand, a contradictory ”central” (i.e. MOE or other state body) obsession with QA is occurring on the other; resulting in what some scholars are referring to as ”centralized decentralization.” This ambiguity has prompted both enthusiasm and cynicism for QA. The rise of QA in Asia is coincident with a number of forces and factors including the philosophies of neo-liberalism, managerialism, corporatization, among others, all of which has contributed to the establishment of national QA or accreditation agencies, societies, associations, and other schemes to measure HE quality. QA it seems is all the rage, it is ubiquitous.

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