Does the Emperor Have the Right (or Any) Clothes? The Public Regulation of Higher Education Qualities over the Last Two Decades

This article suggests that the public higher education 'quality assurance' systems which have been erected over the last 20 years or so rest on flimsy public policy and intellectual foundations. It asks if input/output relationships in higher education can be identified to the extent impli...

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Published in:Quality in higher education 2010-04, Vol.16 (1), p.67-69
Main Author: Blackmur, Douglas
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic achievement
best practice
Education policy
Educational evaluation
Evaluation
four stage model
graduate attributes
Higher Education
Logical Thinking
minimum standards
Public Agencies
Public Policy
qualifications frameworks
quality assurance
quality assurance agencies
Quality of education
student complaints
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Summary:This article suggests that the public higher education 'quality assurance' systems which have been erected over the last 20 years or so rest on flimsy public policy and intellectual foundations. It asks if input/output relationships in higher education can be identified to the extent implied by current models of public higher education 'quality assurance'. The article proposes a moratorium on any further development and extension of public higher education 'quality assurance' systems until several fundamental issues have been satisfactorily addressed. It calls for a new higher education performance evaluation paradigm in which the standards achieved by new graduates in areas such as logical thinking are the prime candidates for independent validation.
ISSN:1353-8322
1470-1081
DOI:10.1080/13538321003679549