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“Nobody is against quality, so of course everyone is in favour of assuring quality”, a remark made in the opening chapter of her book Monitoring the Quality of Education by Carol Taylor Fitz-Gibbon (1996, p. 3).
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Scherman, V., Bosker, R.J. (2017). The Role of Monitoring in Enhancing the Quality of Education. In: Scherman, V., Bosker, R.J., Howie, S.J. (eds) Monitoring the Quality of Education in Schools. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-453-4_1
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