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| Team Involved in the Preparation of this Publication | |
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| List of Abbreviations used in this Publication | |
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| List of Figures, Tables and Maps | |
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| First International Barcelona Conference on Higher Education (October 18-19, 2004) the Social Commitment of Universities | |
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| Editors' Note | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Foreword: Accreditation for Quality Assurance and the Social Commitment of Universities: What is at Stake? | |
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| Quality of Higher Education: A Complex Approach | |
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| Social Commitment in Higher Education | |
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| Universities' New Relevance and Social Responsibility | |
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| The Approach to the Concepts of Quality and Accreditation at the UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education (Paris, 1998) and Follow-up Meetings | |
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| Global Issues on Accreditation | |
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| Quality Assurance and the Role of Accreditation: An Overview | |
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| Accreditation of Engineering Programmes | |
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| Historical and Societal Roots of Regulation and Accreditation of Higher Education for Quality Assurance | |
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| Institutional and Political Challenges of Accreditation at the International Level | |
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| The International Politics of Quality Assurance and Accreditation: From Legal Instruments to Communities of Practice | |
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| Steps to Setting Up an Accreditation Agency | |
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| League Tables as Policy Instruments: The Political Economy of Accountability in Tertiary Education | |
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| Excerpts from Senate and Board of Governors' meetings in Canadian universities | |
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| The Governance of Accreditation | |
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| Academic Fraud, Accreditation and Quality Assurance: Learning from the Past and Challenges for the Future | |
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| The cross-border phenomenon: some figures | |
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| A reminder of a few definitions | |
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| Degree mills | |
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| The National Scholarship Test in Kyrgyzstan | |
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| Qualification fraud in South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia | |
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| Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA) | |
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| Codes of practice of Northwestern University, USA | |
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| Fake universities often have one or more of the following features | |
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| Higher education accreditation in the Netherlands | |
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| Academic Corruption in Central Asia | |
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| Warning! Unaccredited Institutions 'Recognized' by UNESCO | |
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| Sharing Quality Higher Education Across Borders: A Responsibility of Higher Education Institutions | |
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| Cross-Border Higher Education: Issues and Implications for Quality Assurance and Accreditation | |
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| Cross-Border Higher Education and Quality Assurance in Asia-Pacific | |
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| Does Exporting Higher Education Threaten Developing Countries' Efforts to Build a National Higher Education System? A View from the Pacific | |
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| Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Distance Higher Education in the Commonwealth of Nations | |
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| An International Accreditation Space | |
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| International Association of Universities: The Information Clearinghouse on Higher Education in the World | |
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| Quality Assurance and the World Bank, The Challenge of Context and Capacity | |
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| Quality Assurance and Accreditation in the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) | |
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| Quality Evaluation and Accreditation in Central America | |
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| Regional Perceptions on Accreditation | |
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| An Overview of Regional Perspectives on Accreditation in Today's World | |
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| Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa | |
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| The African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education and the Integration of Higher Education Systems in the Member Countries | |
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| Cost-Benefit Analysis of Accreditation: Case Study of Nigeria | |
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| Quality Assurance and Accreditation in the Arab Region | |
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| The experience of the Ahfad University for Women (AUW) in quality assurance | |
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| Arab Society for Quality Assurance in Education (ASQAE) | |
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| Qualitative and Quantitative Indicators Proposed for Accreditation in Oman | |
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| Accreditation of Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific Region | |
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| Accreditation as a combination of self-study and peer review | |
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| Impact of quality assurance | |
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| Cooperation in quality assurance: Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA) | |
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| Accreditation cost | |
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| Accreditation of Higher Education in China | |
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| Accreditation of Higher Education in India | |
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| Quality Assurance of Higher Education in Australia | |
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| Accreditation in the European Higher Education Area | |
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| National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (ANECA) | |
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| The Quality Assurance Agency for the University System in Catalonia (AQU) | |
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| Accreditation of Tertiary Education in the United States and Canada | |
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| Steps in periodic evaluation in Quebec | |
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| The accreditation process: Southern Association of Colleges and Schools | |
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| An audit-like accreditation review of teacher education in the USA | |
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| The council for Higher Education Accreditation, us Accreditation and US Recognition | |
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| Accreditation of Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean | |
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| Council for the Accreditation of Higher Education (COPAES), Mexico | |
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| Accrediting and Enhancing Quality: The Chilean Experience Over the Past Few Decades | |
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| Evaluation and Accreditation of Higher Education in Argentina | |
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| Delphi Poll on Accreditation | |
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| Delphi Poll | |
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| Statistical Appendix | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Further Reading: Selected Bibliography on Accreditation for Quality Assurance | |