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Quality has become a key term in higher education since the 1980s. There are a lot of debates on the meaning of quality and its evaluation methods, but quality remains an elusive and contested concept (Harvey & Williams, 2010). This chapter will critically analyse the two most widely used definitions of quality: fitness for purpose and value for money, offering perspectives to policy-makers and quality assurance practitioners on the pros and cons of using these two definitions in the higher education sector.
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Cheng, M. (2016). Reclaiming Quality. In: Quality in Higher Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-666-8_1
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