Self-Regulation in Higher Education: A Multi-National Perspective on Collaborative Systems of Quality Assurance and Control

Part 1 Regulation and evaluation in higher education: basic perspectives on regulation - the nature of regulation, a historical perspective, levels and patterns of regulation, the self-regulating institution, the limits of self-regulation purposes and means in evaluation - general patterns, purposes of evaluation processes, general approaches to evaluation, specific major procedures, designing an effective process. Part 2 Collaborative self regulation: concepts and models - basic concepts, the macro model (actors, relationships and pathways), variations on the theme, the micro level model (regulatory mechanisms), cycles and integration self regulation processes - the inter-institutional regulatory agency, incentives and sanctions, frameworks for evaluation, self-assessment processes, peer review (external visitors), reports and mechanisms to review them, correlates of success, the cement of the system (training) contexts and priorities (existing systems and major proposals) - patterns expressed in national systems, functioning systems, proposed regulation systems. Part 3 The future of self-regulation: establishing new and strengthening existing self-regulation systems - establishing new systems, basic choices to be made in establishing a national system, improving existing systems, some general recommendations toward a theory of self-regulation - findings from studies of existing practice, propositions, interesting research ideas.