@article {223,
	title = {A KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOCIETY NEEDS QUALITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION},
	journal = {Problems of Education in the 21st Century },
	volume = {12},
	year = {2009},
	month = {May/2009},
	type = {Original article},
	chapter = {15-21},
	abstract = {The model of a {\textquotedblleft}knowledge-based society{\textquotedblright} represents an ideal towards which the whole world strives. Today{\textquoteright}s society is based on knowledge as the main good, virtue and competitive advantage and higher education plays a crucial role in shaping a knowledge-based society. The purpose of this article is to position higher education within knowledge-based societies and to emphasis the growing importance of higher education. Discussions about the shift from elite to mass higher education will be outlined as well as the concept of {\textquotedblleft}universal higher education{\textquotedblleft}in the 21st century. With this theoretical basis the need of quality assurance in higher education will be stressed in to enhance, improve and even maintain a quality-focused orientation. Higher education institutions are in a time of great tensions {\textendash} they have to react quickly to educational needs of a fast-changing society and to assert one{\textquoteright}s position with other higher education providers. At present as well as for the future the necessity to assure quality for higher education systems to compete in a knowledge-based society at all levels {\textendash} national and global {\textendash} is evident.},
	keywords = {higher education, knowledge-based society},
	issn = {1822-7864},
	url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2014/457-1393266717.pdf},
	author = {Andrea Bernhard}
}
