By Peter Williams. It is not often that an opportunity arises to see whether external quality assurance in higher education actually works.
Last summer the newly formed Irish organisation, Quality and Qualifications Ireland, or QQI, asked me to chair a group to examine the higher education institutional review schemes that had been used by its three predecessor, and now defunct, bodies – the Irish Universities Quality Board, IUQB, the Higher Education and Training Awards Council, HETAC, and the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland, NQAI.
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