The External System Of Quality Assurance In Higher Education In The UK

Since the 1980s, the quality of higher education has become an important issue in the world higher education reforms, as well as establishing the quality assurance system and implementing the quality assurance are becoming an important theoretical issue.The external quality assurance system of higher education in the UK has its own characteristics, including internal and external quality assurance system of higher education .At the same time, the realization by the state to ensure the quality of higher education to the public, and continue to promote the quality of higher education standards throughout the development and improvement of the national level to achieve the quality of the external audit with the University's internal quality control level of organic integration.The purposes of this paper are, first, to examine the external quality assurance of higher education in the UK, and then, to analyze its characteristics and to point its issue, and thirdly, to examine the relationship of the government,market and university in external quality assurance of higher education in the UK.The main part of this thesis consists of five chapters.Chapter One"Historical development of the external quality assurance of higher education in the UK", briefly reviews three periods relating to the external quality assurance of higher education in the UK.Chapter Two"The external quality assurance institutions of higher education in the UK", elaborates the background of the establishment, responsibilities, guidelines and objectives, the protection of the early activities of the external quality assurance of higher education in UK to be discussed in detail the department and to other external quality assurance agencies to be on, look outside the UK higher education institutions to ensure the quality of further understanding.Chapter Three"The external quality assurance of higher education in the UK", the institutional aduit is the major method in the external quality assurance of higher education in the UK. From the goals, objectives to review the institutional aduit.Chapter Four"The relationship of the government,market and university in external quality assurance of higher education in the UK.", Through the interpretation of the relationship between the three look forward to a better interpretation of the United Kingdom external quality assurance system for higher education.Chapter Five"Conclusion and suggestions", analyzes the characteristics of the external quality assurance system of higher education in the UK. Finally, it raises some suggestions for the reform and development of the external quality assurance system of higher education in the UK, and points to the issue of the external quality assurance system of higher education in the UK.