We Can't Go Home Again: Insights from a Quarter Century of Experiments in External Academic Quality Assurance

ABSTRACT

What have we learned from 25 years of experience with external academic quality assurance that can help design more effective framework conditions for assuring academic standards? The key elements appear to be the structure and means of evaluating national academic quality assurance agencies, the nature of academic quality information mandated by government, and the focus of external academic quality assurance reviews.

Keywords:

• academic standards
• external academic quality assurance
• framework conditions