New Routes for Quality and Accreditation in Hungarian Higher Education 2010–2014 Cover Image

A minőségügy és az akkreditáció
New Routes for Quality and Accreditation in Hungarian Higher Education 2010–2014

Author(s): György Bazsa
Subject(s): Education, Higher Education , State/Government and Education, Evaluation research
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: quality assurance;accreditation;Hungarian Accreditation Committee (MAB/HAC);European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA);

Summary/Abstract: The study analyses the changes in quality assurance and accreditation from the past four years. It shows that the new law on national higher education, adopted in 2011, has established a new era in this field because it has neglected higher educational quality policy and has eliminated the obligation of institutions to operate a quality assurance system. The Hungarian Accreditation Committee is seeking professional continuity in its activities though the law is causing serious uncertainties as regards its independence and financial working conditions. In the developed world, however, to contrast with the US-based good century traditions and, in Europe, with the framework of the Bologna process, a major emphasis on this topic continues... Hungarian higher education and education policy is the only way in which we might return to and connect ourselves with the European way of progressing. The study briefly evaluates the experience of HAC’s operations in order to contribute to this return to the European route.

  • Issue Year: 23/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 93-107
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Hungarian