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THE TYPOLOGY OF THE QUALITY MEASURES ON HIGHER EDUCATION

Summary/Abstract: Quality in higher education has become an interesting problem and subject to reflections for the greatest part of the higher education national system partners. These reflections have lead to multiple initiatives, all having as declared objective the improvement of the quality in higher education. The observations and the documentations made in order to clarify the different types of initiatives leading to quality improvement, or which could be categorized as initiatives focused on quality, have lead to the determination of four major types: quality through certification, quality through accreditation, quality through improvement initiatives, and quality through national or international systemic pressures. In this article are presented their characteristics by positioning them on two axes of analysis: (1) Institutional – national – international (by the pressure responsible for the emergence of the initiative) and (2) Internal control – External control (by the way chosen of implementing the initiative). At the end of the article, a series of conclusions regarding the contextual use of the four types of initiatives are presented.

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