Accreditation and Evaluation in the European Higher Education Area

Accreditation in the Framework of Evaluation Activities: A Comparative Study in the European Higher Education Area.- Accreditation and Differentiation: A Policy to Establish New Sectors in Austrian Higher Education.- Czech Quality Assurance: The Tasks and Responsibilities of Accreditation and Evaluation.- Ministerial Approval and Improvement-Oriented Evaluation in Denmark: An Alternative to Accreditation?.- Three Rounds of Evaluation and the Idea of Accreditation in Finnish Higher Education.- Quality Assurance and Accreditation in the Flemish Community of Belgium.- The Changing Role of the State in French Higher Education: From Curriculum Control to Programme Accreditation.- Shift of Paradigm in Quality Assurance in Germany: More Autonomy but Multiple Quality Assessment?.- The National System of Higher Education in Greece: Waiting for a Systematic Quality Assurance System.- Quality Assurance in Motion. Higher Education in Hungary after the Change of Regime and the First Cycle of Accreditation.- Practice and Procedures Regarding Accreditation and Evaluation in the Irish Republic.- Italy: Accreditation in Progress. Autonomy, Minimum Standards, Quality Assurance.- Latvia: Completion of the First Accreditation Round — What Next?.- Multipurpose Accreditation in Lithuania: Facilitating Quality Improvement, and Heading towards a Binary System of Higher Education.- The Netherlands: A Leader in Quality Assurance Follows the Accreditation Trend.- The Blurring Boundaries Between Accreditation and Audit: The Case of Norway.- Accreditation and Evaluation in Poland: Concepts, Developments and Trends.- Portugal: Professional and Academic Accreditation — The Impossible Marriage?.- A Decade of Quality Assurance in Spanish Universities.- From Audit to Accreditation-Like Processes:The Case of Sweden.- Accreditation and Related Regulatory Matters in the United Kingdom.