From Inside Higher Education: Higher education leaders from 17 countries on Wednesday announced agreement on a set of principles for evaluating quality in master’s and doctoral education.
Among the principles: that quality evaluation must “go beyond the assessment of research quality” and consider such factors as admissions, recruitment and student learning outcomes; that “meaningful quality metrics” are needed to evaluate research; and that faculty members need to play a key role in the evaluation process. (Principles are downloadable in a PDF.)
Higher education groups from the following countries signed on: Australia, Britain, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam.