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Article: The politics of quality assurance: the Australian quality assurance program for higher education, 1993-1995.
- Article from:
- Australian Journal of Education
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
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Using interest group theory and the idea of public policy development and application following sequential stages, this paper explores how key decisions were made about the establishment and implementation of the controversial national quality assurance program for higher education that operated in Australia from 1993 to 1995. The paper explains how Australia came to introduce a quality assurance program that differed substantially from those established in other OECD countries.
Introduction
This paper considers a question that since the early 1990s has puzzled many academics and administrators in Australian universities. The question simply is this: ...