SCAI—promoting quality in education

Quality Assurance in Education

Purpose – To provide a view of quality in accounting education from the perspective of a critical stakeholder group – academic accountants. The identification of this view adds to the growing discussions around quality, and how it is assured in higher education. Design/methodology/approach – Applying a framework for defining quality in higher education to an accounting context, a postal survey ...

Quality Assurance in Education

The purpose of this chapter is to give an overview and critique of Quality Assurance (QA), its role, function and effectiveness as practised and researched in education organisations. To place contemporary QA in its historical context, some well-trodden ground will be revisited. There is nothing new about government and other authorities’ inspectorial interest (some of it demeaning) in the effe...

Quality Standards in Education

Humor in Education: The Overlooked Capacity in Enhancing the Quality of Education

This article aims to study the latest research findings in order to achieve common concepts and new outlooks on humor in education as an effort to explain the significance of the practical usage of humor to enhance the quality of education in the Iranian system of education. Following a synthesis research method, the present study has extracted the common components and points existing in studi...

Quality Assurance in Higher Education

Internationalisation of higher education seems to be strongly related to the aim to improve the quality of higher education. The idea that internationalisation should not be seen as an end in itself but as a means for quality enhancement has been the basis of many policy documents. In the 1980s publications of the OECD presented the quality perspective in particular in relation to the expected ...