Heather Eggins 
Drivers and Barriers to Achieving Quality in Higher Education [PDF ebook] 

Preface and Acknowledgements;Foreword; 1. Implementation and Translation: From European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance to Education Quality Work in Higher Education Institutions; 2. Policy Drivers and Barriers to Implementation: Contexts of Practice; 3. Questions of Access; 4. Academic Values and the Procedures of Quality Assurance; 5. Two Approaches to Quality Assurance: The ESG and Quality Management Concepts; 6. Changes in Governance: Do They Help Overcome Barriers to the Implementation of the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Higher Education?; 7. Stakeholders and Quality Assurance in Higher Education; 8. Information and Internal Quality Assurance in European and Slovak Higher Education Institutions; 9. Moving up: National Qualifications Frameworks, School-University Linkages and the Challenge of Transition from Secondary to Tertiary Education; The Czech Case: Students, Governance and the Interface with Secondary Education; 11. From Central Regulation to Quality Culture: The Latvian Case; 12. The Portuguese Case: New Public Management Reforms and the European Standards and Guidelines; 13. Opening up the Black Box: Drivers and Barriers in Institutional Implementation of the European Standards and Guidelines; Contributors.