The implementation of self-accreditation policy in Taiwan higher education and its challenges to university internal quality assurance capacity building

In 2012, the Taiwanese Ministry of Education launched a new quality assurance policy entitled 'self-accreditation', aimed at enhancing institutional autonomy, as well as establishing its internal quality review mechanism. In the self-accreditation policy, higher education institutions are...

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Published inQuality in higher education Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 238 - 259
Main Authors Hou, Angela Yung Chi, Kuo, Chao Yu, Chen, Karen Hui Jung, Hill, Christopher, Lin, Shaw Ren, Chih, Jackson Chun-Chi, Chou, Hua Chi
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 02.09.2018
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
accountability
Accreditation
Accreditation (Institutions)
Capacity Building
Colleges & universities
Compliance (Legal)
Educational Policy
Educational Quality
Efficiency
Foreign Countries
Higher Education
Institutional Autonomy
Outcomes of Education
Program Implementation
Quality Assurance
Quality control
Self Evaluation (Groups)
Self-accreditation
Taiwan
Universities
Taiwan
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Summary:In 2012, the Taiwanese Ministry of Education launched a new quality assurance policy entitled 'self-accreditation', aimed at enhancing institutional autonomy, as well as establishing its internal quality review mechanism. In the self-accreditation policy, higher education institutions are encouraged to develop their own quality assurance frameworks based on strategic direction and institutionally specific features. The study adopts qualitative and quantitative approaches to explore the impacts and challenges of the 2012 Ministry of Education self-accreditation policy over Taiwanese universities and accrediting bodies. There are three major findings. 1. Self-accreditation policy had positive consequences and outcomes on university's internal quality assurance capacity building. 2. Inappropriate selection processes of reviewers, arbitrary elimination of standards and indicators, inconsistency across review decisions are the challenges that self-accrediting universities encountered. 3. Under the new quality assurance policy, the roles and responsibilities of external quality assurance agencies should be redefined.
ISSN:1353-8322
1470-1081
DOI:10.1080/13538322.2018.1553496