Enhancing Quality in Higher Education : International Perspectives (Paperback)

1. The Meanings of Enhancement George Gordon & Ray Land  2. Implications and Uses of Enhancement Ray Land and George Gordon  3. Quality Cultures Catherine Owen  4. Quality Enhancement as a Threshold Concept Ray Land & Catherine Owen  5. Using Research Findings to Inform Quality Enhancement Mantz Yorke  Section 2 ? Enhancement In Context: International Perspectives  6. The Impact of National Quality Enhancement Initiatives in England David Gosling  7. The Scottish Approach to Quality Enhancement Ray Land & George Gordon  8. Enhancing the Quality of Higher Education in the United States Mary Deane Sorcinelli  9. Quality Enhancement: the Australian Scene Kerri-Lee Krause  10. The four year degree in Hong Kong: An opportunity for Quality Enhancement Mike Prosser  11. Quality Enhancement in Turkish Higher Education Gulsun Sa?lamer  12. The Contributions of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning to Quality Enhancement in Canada Gary Poole & Nicola Simmons  13. Enhancing Quality ? A Finnish Perspective Outi Kallioinen  14. The Present Situation of Quality Enhancement in Japan Reiko Yamada  15. The Portuguese Case: Can Institutions Move to Quality Enhancement? Alberto Amaral, Maria Joao Rosa And Madalena Fonseca  16. Quality Enhancement in The Czech Republic Helena ?ebkova And Jan Kohoutek  17. Obstacles to Improvement in Bosnia and Herzegovina Hugh Glanville  18. Enhancing the Quality of Higher Education in Vietnam Nguyen Phuong Nga  19. Enhancement or Transformation? The Significance and Dimensions of Quality Enhancement in Higher Education in South Africa Ian Scott And Katherine Luckett  20. How a nationwide student uprising brought about transformative quality enhancement in Sri Lankan higher education. Santiago Ekaratne and Shrinika Weerakoon  21. Strategies to Improve Quality in a range of Latin American Higher Education systems Mariajose Lemaitre