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Groups and Boundaries in Higher Education

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This chapter argues that co-operation between teachers, students and other groups is important for quality in education. According to Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG, 2015), quality in higher education (HE) is basically a result of interaction between teachers, students and the institutional learning environment.

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  1. Department of Academic Affairs, University of Stavanger, Norway

    Eilef J. Gard

  2. Department of Media, Culture and Social Sciences, University of Stavanger, Norway

    Carl Cato Wadel

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  1. University of Sheffield, UK

    Samuel Dent

  2. University of Sheffield, UK

    Laura Lane

  3. University of Sheffield, UK

    Tony Strike

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Gard, E.J., Wadel, C.C. (2017). Groups and Boundaries in Higher Education. In: Dent, S., Lane, L., Strike, T. (eds) Collaboration, Communities and Competition. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-122-3_7

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