Autonomy vs. Control: Quality Assurance and Governmental Policy in Flanders

… In this article, we focus on the tension between the government's aim of improving and controlling the quality of higher education and universities ' concern for their autonomy. We describe the Flemish government's view on issues of quality in higher education and confront these with an account on the basis of case studies of how the quality assurance system was actually implemented in universities. We conclude that the model of the “market state” or the '”evaluative state” is only realised partially in Flanders. . ; https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/usf_EPAA/1529/thumbnail.jpg