Quality Assurance in Higher Education

List of Figures -- List o f Tables -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Education and Economic Development -- 1.1 Development Performances of Developing Countries -- 1.2 Role of Education in Economic Development -- 1.3 Level and Composition of Educational Expenditure -- 1.4 Importance of Quality -- 2 Principles of Quality Assurance in Higher Education -- 2.1 Meaning of Quality in Higher Education -- 2.2 Instrumental Approach to Quality Assurance -- 2.3 Quality Audit System -- 2.4 Learning Organisation -- 2.5 Management Plans -- 2.6 Variations in Implementation -- 3 Quality Assurance in Higher Education in the United Kingdom -- 3.1 University Sector -- 3.2 Early Attempts at Quality Assurance -- 3.3 Quality Assurance in Teaching -- 3.4 Quality Assurance in Research -- 3.5 League Tables -- 4 Quality Assurance in Higher Education in Australia -- 4.1 University Sector -- 4.2 Early Attempts at Quality Enhancement -- 4.3 CQAHE Quality Audit, 1993-95 -- 4.4 1996-2000 Quality Assurance Framework -- 4.5 Australian University Quality Agency -- 5 Framework for Analysing Relevance -- 5.1 Quality Assurance and Economic Growth -- 5.2 Analytical Framework for Assessing Relevance -- 5.3 Example from Economics -- 6 Relevance of Quality Assurance in Developing Countries -- 6.1 Required Conditions for Quality Assurance -- 6.2 Actual Conditions in Developing Countries -- 6.3 Differences Between Required and Actual Conditions -- 7 Quality Assurance for Developing Countries -- 7.1 Impact of Conditions on Quality Assurance -- 7.2 Usefulness of Quality Assurance -- 7.3 System for Developing Countries -- 8 Quality in Papua New Guinean Higher Education -- 8.1 Development Performances -- 8.2 Higher Education Sector -- 8.3 Proposed Quality Assurance Initiatives -- 8.4 Quality in PNG Universities -- 8.5 Quality Assurance for PNG Universities -- 9 Future of Quality Assurance in Higher Education -- 9.1 Forces for Continuation -- 9.2 Conditions for Continuation -- Bibliography -- Index.