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On The Structure of the European Standards and Guidelines for Internal Quality Assurance

Reflections Emerging from Their Implementation in Portugal

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This chapter considers the adequacy of the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG) Part 1. It examines Portuguese academics’ perceptions of how they are implemented in higher education. We perform a factor analysis to find out how the formal structure of the ESG Part 1 compares with the factor structure resulting from its practical implementation. The main goal is to contribute to the discussion of the ESG Part 1 and to help improve it as a framework for internal quality assurance systems.

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  1. Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Aveiro, Portugal

    Maria J. Rosa

  2. CIPES Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies, Portugal

    Maria J. Rosa

  3. ISEG Lisbon School of Economics & Management, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

    Cláudia S. Sarrico

  4. CIPES Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies, Portugal

    Cláudia S. Sarrico

  5. IPAM The Marketing School, Laureate International Universities, Portugal

    Isabel Machado

  6. CIPES Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies, Portugal

    Isabel Machado

  7. DEGEI Department of Economics, Management and Industrial Engineering, University of Aveiro, Portugal

    Carolina Costa

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Rosa, M.J., Sarrico, C.S., Machado, I., Costa, C. (2016). On The Structure of the European Standards and Guidelines for Internal Quality Assurance. In: Pritchard, R.M.O., Pausits, A., Williams, J. (eds) Positioning Higher Education Institutions. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-660-6_4

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