Defining the quality of higher education around ethics and moral values / Anca Prisacariu and Mahsood Shah

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Author	PRISACARIU, Anca (SHAH, Mahsood)
Title	Defining the quality of higher education around ethics and moral values / Anca Prisacariu and Mahsood Shah
Publication year	2016
Source/Footnote	In: Quality in higher education. - 22 (2016) 2, S. 152 - 166
Inventory number	44560
Keywords	Hochschulen : allgemein ; Hochschule und Staat : allgemein
Abstract	The context of higher education across the world currently presents evidence of university failures. These failures are evident in areas such as governance, financial and risk management, conduct of senior leaders and quality assurance issues surrounding international education. Having this in mind, the present paper argues the need to add a new definition (to what is already known) of quality. The conceptual approach proposed by the authors takes into account ethics and morals as key virtues of the higher education sector. The literature shows that it is still difficult to find agreement on a single definition of the concept. University leaders and quality assurance professionals define quality in many different ways. However, despite the ethical challenges in the current higher education landscape, little has been discussed on the connection between quality, ethics and moral values. Therefore, the authors provide the unexplored relationship between these concepts. (HRK / Abstract übernommen)