scholarly journals Peer Review in Public Administration: The Case of the Swedish Higher Education Authority

2022 ◽  
pp. 147-172
Author(s):  
Agnes Ers ◽  
Kristina Tegler Jerselius
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Logical Consequence ◽  
National System ◽  
Education Authority ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Made In

AbstractThe aim of this chapter is to explore the method of peer review as it has been practised within the framework of the Swedish national system for quality assurance of higher education. By highlighting and comparing examples from two reviews, 1997–1998 and 2016–2017, we want to show how the method of peer review has evolved over time and in what way has it been affected by changes made in the system. The study shows that the national system for quality assurance of higher education with peer review as a central method has changed surprisingly little in Sweden during the period studied (1995–2017). Over time, the demands for transparency, predictability and equivalence have increased, which has to some extent undermined the authority of the assessors. At the same time, it is a development which is a logical consequence of—not a break with—the coherent national system for quality assurance of higher education that was put into effect as early as the mid-1990s.

scholarly journals МІСЦЕ ТА РОЛЬ ДЕРЖАВИ У ЗАБЕЗПЕЧЕННІ КОНТРОЛЮ ЯКОСТІ НАДАННЯ ЗВО ОСВІТНІХ ПОСЛУГ: АНАЛІЗ РЕЗУЛЬТАТІВ ОПИТУВАННЯ ЛАТВІЙСЬКИХ СТУДЕНТІВ

2019 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-81
Author(s):  
MOROZ S.,
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Control ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Higher Education Quality ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

За результатами аналізу відповідей студентів з Європейськогопростору вищої освіти було з’ясовано думку респондентів щодо місця таролі держави у забезпеченні контролю за якістю надання освітніх послугзакладом вищої освіти. Розглянуто особливості взаємовідносинінституту держави та інституції університету в контекстізабезпечення якості вищої освіти. Крім того, в статті обґрунтованонапрями вдосконалення змісту та практики використання механізмівдержавного управління якістю вищої освіти, а також визначенопріоритети використання суб’єктами державного управління окремихметодів впливу на систему забезпечення якості вищої освіти в Україні. Basing on the results of survey of answers of students from the Europeanhigher education space, there was determined an opinion of respondents as fora place and role of state in provision quality control of educational services ofhigher educational institutes. The features of the relationship between theInstitute of state and the institutes of the University in the context of provisionof higher education quality. In addition, the article substantiates the directionsof improving the content and practice of usage of mechanisms of statemanagement of the higher education quality, as well as determined thepriorities for the subjects of public administration to use certain methods ofinfluence on the system of quality assurance of higher education in Ukraine.

Enterprise Bargaining as a Tool to Reduce Regulatory Layering: A Content Analysis Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 559-588
Author(s):  
Carolyn Sutherland
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Fast Food ◽  
Analysis Study ◽  
Workplace Relations ◽  
Legislative Reforms ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Made In

This article assesses whether Australia's system of enterprise bargaining has helped to streamline workplace relations rules by replacing overlapping industrial instruments with a single enterprise agreement. It presents empirical findings from a content analysis study of enterprise agreements made in the higher education and fast food sectors between 1993 and 2011. These findings suggest that there has been a remarkable shift over time in the contribution of enterprise agreements to the problem of regulatory ‘layering’. Whereas the majority of early agreements exacerbated the problem by inserting new arrangements on top of existing industrial instruments, more recent agreements have tended to replace multiple instruments with a single agreement. The empirical findings also point to various ways in which legislative reforms and funding incentives have contributed to this shift towards greater simplicity in the workplace relations system.

scholarly journals ‘Whatever you say, say nothing’: Teaching public administration in Northern Ireland

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-120
Author(s):  
Colin Knox
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Regional University ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

This article is a contribution to a special issue of Teaching Public Administration, which offers teachers with many years’ experience the opportunity to reflect on changes over time. The context for this paper is teaching public administration in Northern Ireland, a region of the UK that has a sizeable public sector but a distinctive and unstable structure of governance. The paper begins by summarizing the pedagogic polemic in teaching public administration, how this played out in a devolved region of the UK that has witnessed political conflict, and the influence of this setting on the provision of higher education for public sector officials. It addresses how a regional university has sought to meet the seemingly parochial demands of its students with the wider demands for global outward-facing teaching and research.

scholarly journals Gatekeepers on Campus: Peer Review in Quality Assurance of Higher Education Institutions

2022 ◽  
pp. 79-106
Author(s):  
Don F. Westerheijden
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
Unintended Effects ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Self Assessments ◽  
And Performance

AbstractThis chapter revisits the policy issue of the balance between peer review and performance indicators as a means to assess the quality of higher education, with a focus on unintended effects that emerge when peer review is employed in quality assurance procedures of higher education institutions as a whole. The attempted solutions of using self-assessments with their base of performance indicators, combined with review teams that stretch the meaning of peer review, increase goal displacement behaviour in higher education institutions. The chapter concludes with two ensuing dilemmas that require careful balancing between quality enhancement and superficial compliance, whatever the role of peer review in institutional quality assurance.

scholarly journals LICENSING AND ACCREDITATION AS TOOLS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN UKRAINE

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (4(106)) ◽  
pp. 152-158
Author(s):  
В. О. Резніченко
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
National Agency ◽  
The Right ◽  
Social Importance

The relevance of the article is that in the theory and practice of administrative law the leading place is occupied by the category of tools of public administration. The sphere of providing higher education in Ukraine is not exclusive. The article forms licensing and accreditation as tools of public administration of higher education in Ukraine. It is determined that such procedures determine the efficiency of educational institutions and the quality of education they provide. Medicines are a group of consumer goods of special social importance. It is substantiated that licensing in the field of higher education is a tool of public administration (Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine), the content of which is the issuance, renewal and revocation of free economic licenses, issuance of duplicate free economic licenses, invalidation of free economic licenses, licensing cases and license registers. control over the observance by licensees of license conditions, issuance of orders on elimination of violations of license conditions, as well as orders on elimination of violations of legislation in the field of higher education. It is substantiated that accreditation is a tool of public administration (National Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education), which is provided by current legislation in order to verify the ability (opportunity) of free education to carry out quality educational activities to train specialists in a particular specialization. It is concluded that licensing and accreditation as tools of public administration of higher education in Ukraine - is the need for higher education to confirm the compliance of the educational program of a particular specialty and level of higher education standard of higher education and the right of higher education to appeal to a certain subject of public administration (Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the National Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education).

scholarly journals Evaluation of a quality assurance framework for promoting quality research, innovation and development in higher education institutions in Zimbabwe

2021 ◽  
Vol 9s1 ◽  
pp. 127-157
Author(s):  
Evelyn Chiyevo Garwe ◽  
Juliet Thondhlana ◽  
Amani Saidi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Teaching Innovation ◽  
Quality Assurance Agency ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
National Quality ◽  
Innovation Knowledge

In the spirit of quality assurance, this paper presents a self-evaluation and peer review of the external quality assurance framework for research implemented by the national quality assurance agency for Zimbabwe. Documentary analysis and semi-structured interviews were used to develop a self-evaluation report which was then subjected to international peer review as is the norm in quality assurance evaluations. The evidence from self-evaluation indicates that the quality assurance framework generated significant improvement in the quality and quantity of research with gaps identified in doctoral training and supportive structures for research. Peer review recommended the inclusion of a performance-based research funding arrangement akin to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) used in the United Kingdom whilst throwing caution on the contentious nature of the REF. The paper recommends the development, implementation, and review of quality assurance frameworks for research to guide institutions, enhance research, and to maintain consistency and harmony in the research system. These findings can be adapted by different national quality assurance agencies involved in the regulation, promotion, and enhancement of the quality of teaching, innovation, knowledge production, and engagement/outreach in higher education.

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