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Implementation of Quality Assurance Systems in Academic Staff Perspective – An Overview

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The present study identifies and examines numerous challenges posed by standardisation and global approaches of quality assurance and their implications for educational restructuring, a special attention being paid to new forms of quality assurance systems covering the relation between teaching and research, students’ feedback/students’ implication or cross-institutional assessments. The main themes are: Quality Assurance System (QAS) significance; satisfaction with QAS; QAS implementation issues; QAS organisational benefits; quality vs. quantity; research vs. teaching in terms of QA; students’ feedback/students’ implication; standardisation/general model vs. flexible approach; structural changes; and cross-institutional assessment tools.

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  1. Faculty of Sciences and Environment, University Dunarea de Jos Galati, 47 Domneasca St., Galati, 800 008, Romania

    Luminita Moraru & Mirela Praisler

  2. Department of Teacher Training, University Dunarea de Jos Galati, Galati, Romania

    Simona Marin & Corina Bentea

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Correspondence to Luminita Moraru .

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  1. ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Tatiana Fumasoli

  2. Observatory Science, Politics and Society, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Gaële Goastellec

  3. Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

    Barbara M. Kehm

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Moraru, L., Praisler, M., Marin, S., Bentea, C. (2015). Implementation of Quality Assurance Systems in Academic Staff Perspective – An Overview. In: Fumasoli, T., Goastellec, G., Kehm, B. (eds) Academic Work and Careers in Europe: Trends, Challenges, Perspectives. The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective, vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10720-2_8

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