On several occasions I mentioned the Concept of the Four Quality Paradigms that Teun Hardjono and I developed. I already talked in post # 87 about Eltjo Bazen, a master student that used the Concept to analyse the European Standards and Guidelines and the additions to the standards that Quality Assurance Agencies (QAA’s) use in their daily practise.
Now, the scientific article on the matter by Bazen and me is published in the Journal of Quality in Education.
The main conclusion is that the QAA’s add standards that make it possible for them to cope with more complex context the higher education institutes are in. Although the use of standards and emergence seem to be contradictory, they seek ‘standards’ that make emergence possible. This is an important conclusion, especially in a moment of time, when the ESG’s are being revised.
The full article can be found here.