ABSTRACT

This article addresses quality assurance in European higher education from the perspective of accreditation. To reduce the bias in favour of comparative research of Western (European) countries, it investigates which practices are attached to accreditation in Slovenian and Dutch higher education and identifies on this basis key similarities and differences in its development and implementation. First, it explores accreditation procedures in national steering documents of each country. Second, it addresses its implementation in practice with the support from results obtained with interviews. Results showcase that in the past five years, both countries made significant changes to the accreditation framework to increase institutional responsibility for quality assurance procedures. However, accreditation also became an efficient tool for national (political) actors, to guide the development of higher education systems in the direction of more or less control and, hence, to challenge the promotion of institutional quality culture in both cases examined.

摘要

本文从认证的角度讨论欧洲高等教育的质量保证。为了减少偏向于西方（欧洲）国家比较研究的偏见，它调查了斯洛文尼亚和荷兰高等教育中哪些实践与认证相关，并在此基础上确定了其发展和实施中的关键异同。首先，它探讨了每个国家的国家指导文件中的认可程序。其次，它在访谈结果的支持下解决了其在实践中的实施问题。结果表明，在过去五年中，两国都对认证框架进行了重大更改，以增加对质量保证程序的机构责任。然而，