Reflections and Conclusions

摘要: The massification of higher education, the rapid development new academic subjects and fields, growing international market competition among universities, associated deregulation government policy institutional autonomy, commercial provision quality information, resulting arms race for research reputation prestige have challenged traditional ways maintaining standards. In this concluding chapter we reflect on lessons to be learned from our studies professional regulation, state regulation explore how necessary balance different forces can best accomplished. We also attempt derive these individual instruments some general guidelines that may prove useful in designing national framework conditions assuring standards university sector.