Knowledge Transfer in Higher Education Quality Management: The Case of Germany and Slovakia

• Authors: Denisa Báráňová-Čiderová , Peter Mayer
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The last two decades have been characterized by a fundamental change in the approaches, tools and instruments in the quality management at Higher Education Institutions. Comparison of two Higher Education Institutions in the Slovak Republic and Germany highlights similarities and trends in quality assurance. Both case studies show how multifaceted the quality management is, and the needs to be approached if a meaningful progress is to be made. Complexity has to be explicitly recognized and built into the approach chosen. Higher Education Institutions have to develop internal quality assurance processes. Quality culture is key for addressing the challenges.

Keywords

EN

Higher Education Institutions; European Union policies; quality assurance in Higher Education; best practices in Higher Education quality management

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studia Commercialia Bratislavensia
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 9
• Pages: 18-34

Dates

published

2010-01-01

online

2010-08-12

Contributors

author

Denisa Báráňová-Čiderová

• Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Commerce for International Relations, Faculty of Commerce, University of Economics in Bratislava, Dolnozemská cesta 1, 852 35 Bratislava

author

Peter Mayer

• Faculty of Business Management and Social Sciences, International Business and Management University of Applied Sciences Osnabrueck, Caprivistr. 30a, 49009 Osnabrueck

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10151-010-0001-9