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UNIVERSITY ACCREDITATION- BETWEEN CONSUMER PROTECTION AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION PROVIDERS

Eugenia Grecu

First published: 2011-06-20https://doi.org/10.5593/sgem2011/s23.115View metrics

Abstract

University accreditation is also an important mechanism for protecting the consumers of higher education, as well as an accountability factor to higher education providers. In Romania, the quality assura nce system has exercise d pressures towards the homogenization of hi gher education. By the nature of standards and quality indicators used, but also by his philosophy, quality a ssurance has encouraged higher education institutions to comply, both in content an d in the processes of relatively rigid institutional models or prototypes. The in stitutions which remove d themselves from these models and from the associated standards have been penalized.

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Title
UNIVERSITY ACCREDITATION- BETWEEN CONSUMER PROTECTION AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION PROVIDERS
Authors
Eugenia Grecu
Proceedings
SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference EXPO Proceedings; SGEM2011 11th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference
Publisher
Stef92 Technology
Year
2011
Pages
Not available yet
ISSN
1314-2704
ISBN
Not available yet
Language
en
Publication type
Conference Paper
Keywords
mechanismaccountabilityfactorhomogenizationquality
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