Essays about: "enqa"

Found 2 essays containing the word enqa.

  1. 1. Implementation of the European Standards and Guidelines developed by The European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education: A case study on Lund University

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Nicolai Slotte; [2013]
    Keywords : Quality Assurance; Institutional Evaluation; ENQA; IEP; European Standards and Guidelines; HEI; Top-down Perspective; Bottom-up; Multi-level implementation Perspective.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The thesis studies the situation within Lund University in relation to the implementation of the European Standards and Guidelines (ESG) developed by The European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA). The aim of the study is to answer the following research question “How have Lund University implemented the European Standards and Guidelines developed by The European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) in its ongoing quality assurance work?” In order to gather information on the state of implementation of the ESG the study conducts a number of interviews with centralized actors involved in the implementation process at Lund University in relation to two confrontational theoretical perspectives, the top-down perspective and the bottom-up perspective as well as looking at the impact of network aspects of the implementation process. READ MORE

  2. 2. The Ideological Reconstruction of Higher Education: Problematising Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Pedagogik

    Author : Jenny Pobiega; [2011]
    Keywords : Quality; Quality Assurance; Higher Education; EHEA; OECD; ENQA; Discourse analysis; Ideology; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the ideological forces working in the sphere of quality assurance in higher education. Through discourse analysis on two seminal policy documents, the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ENQA 2005) and OECD Work on Education (OECD 2010), the ideologically underbuilt discourses of Europe and Cost-effectiveness are identified. READ MORE