Quality management: danish engineering education
- Autores: Hans Peter Jensen
- Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 16, no. Extra 2, 2000 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Accreditation and Quality Assurance ), págs. 127-135
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The article explains the institutional structure and statutory foundation for engineering educationin Denmark. The methods used by the Danish Ministry of Education and Denmark's institutions ofhigher education to ensure and improve the quality of engineering degree programmes aredescribed, and there is a brief discussion of the corresponding evaluation procedures used in theother Scandinavian countries: Sweden, Norway and Finland. The Technical University of Denmarkis presented as a case in connection with the discussion of the internal evaluation methods used byvarious educational institutions. The final section deals with international prospects in connectionwith the evaluation and quality management of educational programmes in the engineeringsciences.
