Towards a diversified system of quality assurance

By Wondwosen Tamrat. The establishment of quality assurance agencies in many parts of the world is viewed as a means of addressing the attendant challenges of ‘massifying’ systems of higher education. However, the last few decades reveal that addressing the issue of quality requires more than setting up national agencies since the continued growth and complexity of an expanding higher education system can overwhelm and eventually render a fledgling system ineffective. More...