Internationalization and quality assurance: towards worldwide accreditation
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Contents 1 Introduction 2 2 Forms of internationalization in higher education 4 2.1 Student mobility 4 2.2 Teaching staff mobility 6 2.3 Internationalization of curricula 7 2.4 Branch campuses 9 2.5 Institutional cooperation agreements and networks 9 2.6 Mutual recognition agreements 9 2.7 Transnational university networks (incl. mergers of institutions) 10 2.8 Transnational virtual delivery of higher education 11 2.9 International harmonization of higher education systems 12 3 Issues and challenges in internationalization of higher education 12 3.1 Constraints and barriers to internationalization 12 3.2 The quality of internationalization policies and practices 14 3.3 Recognition of foreign diplomas and degrees 15 3.4 Recognition of credits and study periods abroad 16 3.5 Internationalization and the quality issue 18 4 International developments in quality assurance in higher education 18 4.1 The international emergence of quality assurance in higher education 18 4.2 Dimensions of international variation in quality assurance 21 4.3 Towards a global quality assurance model? 23 4.4 International challenges for quality assurance systems 24 5 Towards worldwide accreditation for international higher education? 26 5.1 What is at stake? 26 5.2 Multiple accreditation as quality assurance in international higher education 27 5.3 Worldwide inter-institutional accreditation networks 29 6 Conclusions and topics for debate 31 Bibliography 33
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