| The state has a potentially broad range of policy approaches
for influencing academic standards. Policies range from providing incentives
designed to strengthen professional self-regulation, to directly monitoring
the academic quality of institutions, to freeing and facilitating market
forces as a means of improving academic quality (see Table 1). Therefore
we plan to carry out policy analyses of a broad range of policy instruments
and practices designed to influence academic standards.
Each policy analysis will examine one quality assurance instrument,
and will focus on its development and implementation. The main purpose
of each paper is to inform readers about the perceived problems that led
to the new policy, what the policy was intended to do, implementation problems,
the identified costs, and the impacts of the policy. The analysis should
enable a reader to consider the possible effectiveness of the instrument
in some other political and academic environment.
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