The design guideline avoid dependency cycles among modules was first alluded to by Parnas in 1978. Many tools have since been built to detect cyclic dependencies among a program’s organisational units, yet we still see real applications riddled with large dependency cycles. Our solution to this problem is to proactively check for dependency cycles as a developer writes code. In this way a cycle...

The social inclusion policies are implemented in the higher education sector to provide access and opportunity for all groups of people irrespective of their social class to participate in higher education. Such policies ensure that every citizen has access to elite education which enables them to succeed and improve their life chances. The renewal of quality assurance in Australian higher educ...

Assurance has been defined as “the degree of confidence that security needs are satisfied”[2]. The problem with this definition is that, unless one has a way to specify security needs in some measurable way, assurance can not be expressed in a measurable way either. The definition leaves the practitioner with the challenge of determining what “security needs” are, whether or not they have been ...

Online education is used for a variety of purposes in higher education. Two such purposes are improving one’s performance over time and understanding one’s professional development in the context of online teaching and learning. Relying on data from online staff development courses delivered in five Spanish universities, this article explores online faculty learning through the lens of staff de...

In this chapter the results of the transnational analysis are presented. First, the contexts of Quality Assurance in (I)VET in the six project countries are described. Next, the case study results for all six countries are compared as a basis for drawing conclusions on which factors overall matter for review activities in quality assurance. The final section (10.4) includes some general conclus...

This paper has been published in the Journal of Statistical Software (Kiermeier 2008) and describes the framework for creating and visualising acceptance sampling plans. Manufacturers and government agencies frequently use acceptance sampling to decide whether a lot from a supplier or exporting country should be accepted or rejected. International standards on acceptance sampling provide sampli...

A quality assurance system (QA) should ensure that student needs are met. It also respects accreditation requirements and student perceptions, supports training and development of teaching staff, controls costs and improves efficiency of elearning system.