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Modern higher education is accountable to a range of stakeholders – typically to national governments, sponsors and other authorities and, increasingly, to employers and students (Burke, 2005; Lauen & Gaddis, 2012; Marope, Wells, & Hazelkorn, 2013). This accountability extends to the use of resources, quality of teaching, and also higher education responses to meet socio-economic demands and needs.
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Prinsloo, P., Slade, S. (2014). Student Data Privacy and Institutional Accountability in an Age of Surveillance. In: Menon, M.E., Terkla, D.G., Gibbs, P. (eds) Using Data to Improve Higher Education. Global Perspectives On Higher Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-794-0_12
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