Quality in cross-border higher education and challenges for the internationalization of national quality assurance agencies in the Asia-Pacific region: The Taiwanese experience

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 135-152

  Hou, Angela Yung chi ^a,b  

^a FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

cross border higher education; international accreditation; quality assurance; Taiwanese higher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893510686     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2011.646258     Document Type: Article

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