Journal Articles
Capacity building as an instrument of institutional reform: Improving the quality of higher education through academic audits in the UK, New Zealand, Sweden, and Hong Kong
- Capacity building as an instrument of institutional reform: Improving the quality of higher education through academic audits in the UK, New Zealand, Sweden, and Hong Kong
- Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 2(2), 211-234, 2000
- Routledge
- 2000
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- Hong Kong
- Great Britain
- New Zealand
- Sweden
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- Post-Secondary Education
- As countries convert from state to market-centered public policies, there is increasing interest in new forms of public accountability. Capacity building initiatives that reform institutional frameworks are useful policy instruments during this period of transition. What are the impacts and implementation problems characteristic of this approach? This article reviews the experience with "Academic Audit," a capacity building accountability instrument for universities adopted in the UK, Sweden, New Zealand, and Hong Kong. Academic audits altered the incentives for cooperative behavior among faculty members to improve student learning. Identified implementation problems included: training for the new process, the uncertainty of capacity building benefits, and the central role of information.[Copyright of Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice is the property of Routledge. Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13876980008412643 ]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 13876988
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/779c2970
- 2010-09-06
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