The 'accreditation Model': Policy Transfer in Higher Education in Austria and Britain - Couverture souple
Synopsis
In 1993 the Austrian government introduced legislation to create a new Fachhochschul-sector of vocationally oriented higher education. This established a new kind of body (the Fachhochschulrat) to "accredit" courses and eventually to designate institutions. The Fachhochschul-policy appears, against many predictions at the time, to have been highly successful. The introduction of this "accreditation model" was remarkable in that it drew on experience of the Council for National Academic Awards and polytechnic policy in the United Kingdom, a country with a very different tradition in higher education and with a different political and constitutional context. The model was a radical departure from the Austrian tradition of central political control and was, controversially, favoured over more obvious alternatives. This book reports on research (funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council) into this new approach to policy and control in higher education in Austria. It offers an unusual opportunity to explore this "policy transfer" and to compare the use of similar institutional mechanisms in different contexts. It assesses the factors that led to the acceptance and success of the policy, and its impact on the higher education system more widely. CONTENTS: Chronology; Edward C. Page. Foreword; John Pratt. A New Sector in Austrian Higher Education; John Pratt. The UK Model: the binary system and the CNAA; Hans Pechar. Should Austria Establish a Non-university Sector? 1969-1990; Hans Pechar. The Emergence of the Accreditation Model 1990-1994; Thomas Pfeffer. The Development of the Fachhochschul-sector 1994-2003; Thomas Pfeffer. How the Fachhochschulrat Worked; John Pratt. The Accreditation Model and Policy Transfer; John Pratt, Hans Pechar & Patricia Worgan. The Robustness of Institutions; Thomas Pfeffer. Glossary; Appendix: Interview Respondent.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
In 1993 the Austrian government introduced legislation to create a new Fachhochschul-sector of vocationally oriented higher education. This established a new kind of body (the Fachhochschulrat) to "accredit" courses and eventually to designate institutions. The Fachhochschul-policy appears, against many predictions at the time, to have been highly successful. The introduction of this "accreditation model" was remarkable in that it drew on experience of the Council for National Academic Awards and polytechnic policy in the United Kingdom, a country with a very different tradition in higher education and with a different political and constitutional context. The model was a radical departure from the Austrian tradition of central political control and was, controversially, favoured over more obvious alternatives. This book reports on research (funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council) into this new approach to policy and control in higher education in Austria. It offers an unusual opportunity to explore this "policy transfer" and to compare the use of similar institutional mechanisms in different contexts. It assesses the factors that led to the acceptance and success of the policy, and its impact on the higher education system more widely. CONTENTS: Chronology; Edward C. Page. Foreword; John Pratt. A New Sector in Austrian Higher Education; John Pratt. The UK Model: the binary system and the CNAA; Hans Pechar. Should Austria Establish a Non-university Sector? 1969-1990; Hans Pechar. The Emergence of the Accreditation Model 1990-1994; Thomas Pfeffer. The Development of the Fachhochschul-sector 1994-2003; Thomas Pfeffer. How the Fachhochschulrat Worked; John Pratt. The Accreditation Model and Policy Transfer; John Pratt, Hans Pechar & Patricia Worgan. The Robustness of Institutions; Thomas Pfeffer. Glossary; Appendix: Interview Respondent.
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