Internationalization and Quality Assurance in Higher Education
 
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Ph.D., Faculty of Management and Quality Science, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
 
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Ph.D., DS., Faculty of Chemistry, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland
 
 
Online publication date: 2022-09-12
 
 
Management 2022;26(1):204-230
 
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ABSTRACT
Internationalization is an inevitable phenomenon among all contemporary higher education institutions (HEIs) in a globalizing world. It is the driving force for development and progress. In course of the last 30 years, it became an inevitable element of HE management. However, it carries along a number of risks, pitfalls, and organizational challenges. To hedge those, quality assurance (QA) is called to the stage. HEIs therefore need not only to search for chances but also to increase the advancement of methods to safeguard the quality of education and research. It is for this reason that a discussion on the mutual evolution and impact of internationalization and QA is required, and this is the aim of this article to combine the issues dialectically. There are tools and institutions within the internationally and nationally developed QA concepts that have the potential and aim to secure the benefits of internationalization.
 
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