A large number of countries worldwide have established quality assurance mechanisms in Higher Education, ranging from the long-engrained system (United States) to more recent developments in Europe, Latin America and other regions. This study explores the way Higher Education institutions, as examples of autonomous organisations, respond to a new set of regulatory policies. The analysis of the regulatees shows that university-wide administration has gone beyond the letter of required regulations, toward over-compliance. Far from a stereotype of a main external regulator (accreditation agency) trying to impose the stated regulations and the regulatee simply resisting, the latter adds a kind of self-regulation. Below the university-wide administration, at the programme level—the primary regulatee target of external regulators—matters take more typical, anticipated form. Mixed compliance characterises programme-level responses, including resistance strategies. Findings illuminate not only the Argentine case but also other countries that have established quality assurance agencies.

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通过认证保证质量：当阻力遇到过度合规时

世界上许多国家都建立了高等教育质量保证机制，从根深蒂固的体系（美国）到欧洲、拉丁美洲和其他地区最近的发展。本研究探讨了高等教育机构作为自治组织的例子，如何应对一系列新的监管政策。对受监管者的分析表明，大学范围内的管理已经超出了规定的规定范围，趋向于过度遵守。远非主要外部监管机构（认证机构）试图强加规定的法规而受监管者只是抵制的刻板印象，后者增加了一种自我监管。在大学范围的管理之下，在项目层面——外部监管机构的主要监管目标——问题采取更典型的、预期的形式。混合合规性是项目级响应的特征，包括抵抗策略。调查结果不仅说明了阿根廷的情况，而且说明了其他已建立质量保证机构的国家。