Handbook of Research on Quality Assurance and Value Management in Higher Education

[...]. Traditional with its opening documentation, the addition of a “Detailed Table of Contents” with brief abstracts of the 15 chapters and a “Preface” giving a solid overview of the four sections that the chapters fall into, will be a useful starting place for research. Each chapter begins with an “Abstract” and “Introduction” followed by the main body of research including visuals of: charts, diagrams, figures, and photos, all in black and white. Chapters close with “Concluding Thoughts” and extensive references for documentation and extended study. “Back Matter” includes: “References,” an “Index,” and “Contributor Information."
Higher education is no longer about information, copious note taking, and regurgitation for tests. The Handbook of Research on Quality Assurance and Value Management in Higher Education examines the trajectory of higher education as both the acquisition of knowledge and workplace skills. Environmental settings will vary, but in today’s world there is a need for excellence in an educated and prepared workforce that will prove worthwhile for individuals, society, and companies. This handbook presents common key factors, levers and processes, and models for value and sustainability of trainings offered, and provides the aspects and pathway to good lifelong learning junctures in higher learning institutions.
The primary model introduces Work Integrated Learning (WIL), which is a prototype for learning opportunity, skill development, and giving people the education to be part of workplace evolution. Briefly, research on WIL brings education together with professional training to enhance quality assurance and enhance efficiency. The collection of publications focuses on higher education institutions with strong emphasis on training and learning, needs and outcomes of local vision within a worldwide framework. Individual past knowledge and experience is melded with current skills needed in the workplace creating work sustainability through educational growth. Great value is placed on the employee/student because with this higher quality educational system, investment in the student will ripple to improved qualitative and quantitative indicators and, thus, improved quality assurance for companies.
Local or global, long and short-term, adapting higher education to meet the needs of individuals, companies, and our changing environment, makes a world of sense. This handbook will be a springboard for educational change for executives involved in management of talent, professionals, industrial mentors, policy-makers, academic tutors, managers, and researchers in the field of higher education.