By Ben Yagoda. Strolling about London on a recent vacation, I was gobsmacked to come upon this: The reason for my surprise was that, on my mother’s knee, I was taught that quality should not be used as an adjective but exclusively as a noun referring to a feature or characteristic of a person or thing.I haven’t been on my mother’s knee for a long time, but the injunction is still widespread. Bryan Garner’s entry on the word in Garner’s Modern American Usage reads, in its entirety: “When used as an adjective meaning ‘of high quality,’ this is a vogue word and a casualism <a quality bottling company>. More...
Call for contributions on quality assurance in higher education
The European Quality Assurance Forum 2014 conference is accepting proposals of research papers or workshops on the overarching theme of Changing education - QA and the shift from teaching to learning. EQAF 2014 conference website. More...




