Higher Education Policy Change in the European Higher Education Area: Divergence of Quality Assurance Systems in England and the Netherlands

Autor/inn/en	Hsieh, Chuo-Chun; Huisman, Jeroen
Titel	Higher Education Policy Change in the European Higher Education Area: Divergence of Quality Assurance Systems in England and the Netherlands
Quelle	In: Research Papers in Education, 32 (2017) 1, S.71-83 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0267-1522
DOI	10.1080/02671522.2015.1129645
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Educational Policy; Educational Change; Quality Assurance; Educational Quality; Policy Formation; Universities; Educational Trends; Comparative Education; Educational Innovation; United Kingdom (England); Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsreform; Qualitätssicherung; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Politische Betätigung; University; Universität; Bildungsentwicklung; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Niederlande
Abstract	In the context of globalising higher education (HE) policies, there is an increasing interest among scholars in detecting patterns of policy change, including the rate and magnitude of policy change and the direction of change (convergence or divergence) This paper adds to that literature by comparing the pattern of policy change and by providing theory-based explanations for HE policy change. The national quality assurance (QA) policies for universities in England and the Netherlands were compared (1985-2005) based on an analytical framework drawing on new institutionalism. Key findings were that both QA systems moved in the direction of an extrinsic QA orientation, but the differences between the two systems were larger in 2005 and in 1985. The degree of policy change in England was more incremental, the Dutch case showing rather radical change in 2002. These dissimilarities can be ascribed to the different policy change mechanism: bricolage and translation. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01