Higher Education Evaluation and Development: Volume 12 Issue 2 , Open Access

Quality assurance and the battle for legitimacy – discourses, disputes and dependencies

Bjørn Stensaker

The purpose of this paper is to address how issues of legitimacy are influencing the functioning and shaping of the field. The paper identifies key global agendas currently linked…

A literature review on the student evaluation of teaching: An examination of the search, experience, and credence qualities of SET

Gregory Ching

Competition among higher education institutions has pushed universities to expand their competitive advantages. Based on the assumption that the core functions of universities are…

“Parents just don’t understand” – generational perceptions of education and work

Kee-Cheok Cheong, Christopher Hill, Yin-Ching Leong, Chen Zhang, Zheng Zhang

Using a Southeast Asian context, this paper asks a question that has seldom been researched: Is there a divergence between parents’ and their college-going children’s perceptions…

Induction of junior faculty members of higher education institutions in Eritrea

Zecarias Zemichael

The purpose of this paper is to explore how the graduate assistants (GAs) are inducted into the system and ethos of the institutions of higher education (IHE) in Eritrea. The…

Changing European Academics: A Comparative Study of Social Stratification, Work Patterns and Research Productivity

I-Jung Grace Lu