Papadimitriou, Antigoni: The enigma of quality assurance in Greek higher education

This study aims to answer the enigmatic question why quality assurance has developed—or failed to develop—in Greek universities the way it has, and why some universities have taken more steps along this route than others. The basic assumption of the study is that higher education institutions seek survival in an institutional environment.

Scanning the Greek environment, it appears that isomorphic pressures for adoption of internal quality assurance are scant but that quality assurance nevertheless is a politically ‘hot’ topic. In such an environment, empirical study of quality assurance is difficult; a mixed-methods approach gives insights from different perspectives at different levels of the higher education system with the aim to indicate organisational factors that influence adoption of quality management in universities.

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