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The Impact of the European Standards and Guidelines in Agency Evaluations
Author(s) -
STENSAKER BJØRN,
HARVEY LEE,
HUISMAN JEROEN,
LANGFELDT LIV,
WESTERHEIJDEN DON F.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
european journal of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.577
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1465-3435
pISSN - 0141-8211
DOI - 10.1111/j.1465-3435.2010.01450.x
Subject(s) - quality assurance , accountability , transparency (behavior) , accounting , agency (philosophy) , generally accepted auditing standards , business , quality (philosophy) , food standards , professional standards , higher education , political science , engineering , engineering ethics , marketing , medicine , sociology , service (business) , financial accounting , pathology , food safety , social science , philosophy , accounting information system , epistemology , law
The emergence of the European Standards and Guidelines (ESG) for Quality Assurance has been seen as an important step towards realising the European Higher Education Area by creating more transparency and accountability in the area of quality assurance. The ESG also include standards as to how quality assurance agencies should be reviewed. In a meta‐analysis of the reviews undertaken of quality assurance agencies, this article explores to what extent the ESG is having an impact on the reviews.