Quality assurance and the shift towards private governance in higher education: Europeanisation through the back door?

Hartmann, Eva

doi:10.1080/14767724.2017.1330138

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“…11 However, a closer analysis of the transformation puts a structuralist explanation into perspective and brings power struggles back into the picture. The re-articulation of the relationship between the government and universities was and still is highly contested, with competing ideas about the right balance between governmental control and the independence of HE institutions (Rosa and Teixeira 2014;Bejan, Janatuinen, and Jurvelin 2015;Hartmann 2017;Kauko, Rinne, and Takala 2018). The right degree of reflexivity and accordingly the composition of the agencies has equally become a topic of contention.…”

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The future of universities in a global risk society

Hartmann

2019

Globalizations

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is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge/UK. She has widely published on cross-border recognition of higher education qualifications in the context of an emerging European and international labour market, on cross-border quality assurance as well as the internationalisation of further and corporate education. Her most recent research project focuses on the rise of a transnational private authority in the sphere of education.

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The future of universities in a global risk society

Hartmann

2019

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“…QAAs apply to be part of the register, and thus legitimated as trustworthy agents, and are only listed if they are judged to be compliant with the ESG by EQAR’s Register Committee (EQAR, 2020). Through this process EQAR transforms ‘QA agencies in Europe into QA agencies of Europe’ (Hartmann, 2017: 319). Register decisions are made on the basis of external reviews of QAAs that are generally coordinated by ENQA, who, along with the rest of the E4, are founding members of EQAR.…”

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Beyond Bologna? Infrastructuring quality in European higher education

Grek

Russell

2023

European Educational Research Journal

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Applying qualitative methods, this paper examines the burgeoning of quality assurance databases, processes and networks of actors in the field of higher education in Europe. Our main argument is that there has been a move from the Bologna Process being the near singular focus for European-level coordination and harmonisation of higher education, towards the making of a much more diverse and complex quality assurance and evaluation infrastructure. This infrastructure involves a range of distinct but interdependent actors and processes and contains explicit and implicit interlinkages with the production of wider policy agendas, such as the rise of the European Education Area. The aim of this paper is to analyse the growth and complexity of Quality Assurance (QA) in higher education (HE) in Europe, as a way of understanding the multifaceted and continuously developing process of Europeanisation.

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“…With reductions in state funding, the universities in these two countries must search for non‐state sources of funding to sustain their future development. Typically, universities in the United Kingdom are run like businesses and a corporate governance model is being adopted to make university more efficient and effective in management (Hartman, 2017). The adoption of neoliberalism in higher education management has led to criticisms from academics for undermining academic freedom, and this is commonly heard not only from the two case studies but also from other international discourse when reflecting upon how market forces shape university governance (Graz & Hartmann, 2012).…”

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Remaking higher education for the post‐COVID‐19 era: Critical reflections on marketization, internationalization and graduate employment

Mok¹,

Montgomery

2021

Higher Education Quarterly

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This Special Issue was conceived and developed following a series of international conferences held in Asia, with a particular focus on critically reflecting upon higher education development in the region from broader social and political economy perspectives. Some of the papers in this Special Issue were selected from presentations in the East Asia Social Policy (EASP) Research Network Conference successfully held in Taiwan in 2018, while others were chosen from international events held at Lingnan University in Hong Kong presenting critical reviews and reflections on internationalization, marketization and graduate employment of higher education in Asia. This introductory article puts the discussions of the selected papers in this issue in context, with critical reflections on the key issues being examined in these papers. The Special Issue is published when the world is still confronting the unprecedented global health crisis resulted from the outbreak of the COVID‐19 pandemic. This article discusses the higher education development trends in Asia through the massification, diversification and internationalisation processes in transforming the higher education system and examines how these development trends are affected by the COVID‐19 crisis.

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Quality assurance and the shift towards private governance in higher education: Europeanisation through the back door?

Cited by 9 publications

References 22 publications

The future of universities in a global risk society

The future of universities in a global risk society

Beyond Bologna? Infrastructuring quality in European higher education

Remaking higher education for the post‐COVID‐19 era: Critical reflections on marketization, internationalization and graduate employment

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