ABSTRACT

Regulation of higher education worldwide has become a complex process. New developments, such as the accreditation of institutions and programmes by foreign, and usually private, agencies, has not been the focus of scholarship on regulation and quality assurance in higher education. This article addresses the issue of accreditation of graduate business programmes in Argentina by foreign accreditation agencies. Through a regulatory analysis, this study indicates that this emerging trend challenges classic understandings of regulation and programmes’ responses to them in various ways, either deciding to participate or not. Those decisions are based on intrinsic and extrinsic motivations and the responses vary by type of institution, sector and approach.

摘要

全球高等教育的监管已成为一个复杂的过程。新的发展，例如外国机构和通常是私人机构对机构和项目的认证，并不是高等教育监管和质量保证学术研究的重点。本文讨论外国认证机构对阿根廷商业研究生课程的认证问题。通过监管分析，这项研究表明，这一新兴趋势以各种方式挑战了对监管的经典理解和计划对它们的反应，无论是决定参与还是不参与。这些决定基于内在和外在动机，响应因机构、部门和方法的类型而异。