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The Swiftly Moving Frontiers of Quality Assurance

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Quality Assurance in Higher Education

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The emergence of the evaluative state (Neave, 1998) can be explained as the consequence of a number of factors, including massification of higher education, increasing market regulation, the emergence of new public management and loss of trust in higher education institutions and their professionals.

… noui consilia et ueteres quaecumque moneatis amici,

‘pone seram, cohibe.’ sed quis custodiet ipsos

custodies, qui nunc lasciuae farta puellae

hac mercede silent? crimen commune tacetur.

prospicit hoc prudens et ab illis incipit uxor.

… I am aware of whatever councils you old friends warn:

‘Bolt her in, constrain her!’ But who will guard

the guardians , who now keep silent the lapses of the loose

girl — paid off in the same coin? The common crime keeps its silence.

A prudent wife looks ahead and starts with them.

(Juvenal or Juvenalis, VI satire)

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  1. Alberto Amaral
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  1. CIPES and University of Aveiro, Portugal

    Maria João Rosa (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

  2. A3ES, CIPES and University of Porto, Portugal

    Alberto Amaral (Full Professor) (Full Professor)

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Amaral, A., Rosa, M.J. (2014). The Swiftly Moving Frontiers of Quality Assurance. In: Rosa, M.J., Amaral, A. (eds) Quality Assurance in Higher Education. Issues in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137374639_15

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