NDLI: Quality Assurance in UK Higher Education: Issues of Trust, Control, Professional Autonomy and Accountability

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Hoecht, Andreas
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	This article explores the issues of trust, control, professional autonomy and accountability in higher education quality assurance in the UK. The main part of this article is conceptual, but it includes results from semi-structured interviews with academic staff that were conducted at two “new university” business schools. Both institutions are broadly similar in their key characteristics and have experienced a transformation to university status in the early 1990s. The article argues that there has been a change from informal “light-touch” quality control systems based on local practices and a significant amount of trust and professional autonomy in the early 1990s to a highly prescribed process of audit-based quality control today. The article argues that accountability and transparency are important principles that academics should wholeheartedly embrace, but that the audit format adopted in the UK introduces a one-way accountability and provides “rituals of verification” (Power 1997) instead of fostering trust, has high opportunity costs and may well be detrimental to innovative teaching and learning.
Starting Page	541
Ending Page	563
Page Count	23
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00181560
Journal	Higher Education
Volume Number	51
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	1573174X
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2006-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	accountability control legitimacy professional autonomy professional project quality assurance trust Education (general)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Law

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