@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00014653, author = {MORGAN, Keith J.}, journal = {名古屋高等教育研究}, month = {Jan}, note = {The procedures used for assessment of quality in teaching and institutional management in English universities are described. Over the past 15 years a rapid learning process has occurred, shared by the universities and the assessment agency. The agency has identified a non-intuitive framework necessary for adequate quality assurance; the universities have accepted this framework and recognised the institutional advantages it provides. The results confirm a generally high level for the quality of teaching and academic standards and rapidly improving standards of institutional management. This is now to lead in 2003 to replacement of the previous agency-centred external review process by an internal university-based structure. The new procedure identifies university responsibility for academic standards and effective institutional management. External scrutiny will in future focus on the adequacy of procedures and practice within universities to sustain delivery of high standards. An analysis of the impact of quality assessment on the universities suggests that the original initiative by the universities to introduce quality assurance and their subsequent positive response to its development have been influential in reasserting the role of universities in determining academic standards.}, pages = {83--110}, title = {Quality Assessment in English Universities}, volume = {3}, year = {2003} }