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Quality in Higher Education

Quality in Higher Education

Turner, David Andrew

Paperback

General EducationGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 9460916821
ISBN13: 9789460916823
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jan 1 2011
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
The quality of higher education is a hot topic, especially as students around the world are asked to pay more towards their own education, and expect to get what they pay for. In addition, league tables, both national and international, have come to dominate discussion, with several governments, and many institutions, setting themselves the goal of improving their ratings. In this volume Professor Turner examines the assumptions that are being made about what counts as quality, and what the traditional purposes of universities are. But with the growth of mass higher education, and the rise of student centred approaches to learning and teaching, it has become increasingly clear that high quality education is education that meets the needs of the student at that particular moment, and promotes their future development. After examining a range of different approaches to the quality of higher education and its measurement, Professor Turner develops an approach to benchmarking and quality enhancement that is better suited to the ethos of individualised learning, and uses it to critique the philosophies that have dominated debates about quality to date.

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