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American Accreditation of Foreign Universities: Colonialism in Action

Philip G. Altbach
- 25 Mar 2015 - 
- Iss: 32
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This article is published in International higher education.The article was published on 2015-03-25 and is currently open access. It has received 26 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Accreditation & Action (philosophy).

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Globalisation and Higher Education

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Accelerating the Americanization of Management Education: Five Responses From Business Schools

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Trading quality across borders: colonial discourse and international quality assurance policies in higher education

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the applicability of colonial discourse as a perspective for understanding the increasing international convergence of accountability and quality assurance in higher education, and find that practices and ideas about quality developed in the Global North are spreading rapidly across the Global South leading to increased uniformity in the approaches to quality assurance.