Standards for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area versus Common Assessment Framework in education. Conflict or harmony?

Małgorzata Wiśniewska; Piotr Grudowski

Standards for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area versus Common Assessment Framework in education. Conflict or harmony?

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The aim of the research was to analyze the assumptions of Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ENQA) and the criteria of Common Assessment Framework (CAF) for the educational sector and based on that to find out the main differences and similarities (conflicts and harmony) between them. The results of the research showed that the current trends of the quality movement evolution in higher education are not on the harmony with the modern achievements of total quality management approach, represented by CAF model and several conflicts can be observed.

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Małgorzata Wiśniewska
- Wydział Zarządzania Uniwersytet Gdański Zakład Zarządzania Jakością i Środowiskiem
Piotr Grudowski dr hab. inż.

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Category:: Monographic publication
Type:: rozdział, artykuł w książce - dziele zbiorowym /podręczniku w języku o zasięgu międzynarodowym
Title of issue:: W : Knowledge, innovation and quality as factors of the sucess in the new economy strony 249 - 260
Language:: English
Publication year:: 2014
Bibliographic description:: Wiśniewska M., Grudowski P.: Standards for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area versus Common Assessment Framework in education. Conflict or harmony?// W : Knowledge, innovation and quality as factors of the sucess in the new economy/ ed. Elżbieta Skrzypek Lublin: UMCS Lublin, 2014, s.249-260
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