Abstract

The internationalization of quality assurance has been especially prominent over the past two decades, building on the strong country-based foundation that has resulted in nations around the world sustaining quality assurance organizations for purposes of assuring and improving quality in higher education. At present, this internationalization involves current practice that includes collegial, peer-based review of institutions using primarily qualitative, formative evaluation of primarily resources, processes, and results. It is moving in the direction of mission-based evaluation, grounded in the importance and value of academic freedom and institutional autonomy. It is responsive to the expanding international activity of colleges and universities and assuring quality for millions of international students, as well as the growing expectation that quality higher education is essential to the future of knowledge societies intensely engaged in international competitiveness.

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