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doctoral degree programmes between European and Chinese universitiesQuality Assurance Framework • March 20th, 2016
This paper explores quality assurance in Europe-China doctoral education, an area that has been largely under-researched by both constructing an analytical framework and applying it in a specific empirical case. The analytical framework is developed from the perspective of institutional theory with a particular focus on understanding the establishment of quality assurance in cross-border joint educational programme as reconciling between different conceptions of quality both sides’ providers as well as possible factors facilitating the process. In the empirical analysis, we take a joint doctoral programme between a Chinese university and a Portuguese university as an example to analyse the initiation and implementation of quality assurance system in the programme. While developing a system accommodating the traditions and needs of both sides is not an easy task, we found that a few factors that may facilitate the process, namely profitability of the programme, institutional compatibili
