The formation of European Higher Education Quality Assurance Models and their implications
The decline of European higher education quality in the process of popularization brought about different higher education quality assurance models, mainly represented by the British Pluralist Evaluation Model, the French Centralized Evaluation Model, Belgian Two\|Polarity Evaluation Model and Dutch system of External Quality Assessment. Based on the analysis of major structures and characteristics of these models, this article holds that raising the quality awareness is required internally by the general law of higher education.Moreover, in establishing a quality assurance system in accordance with China's situations, China should take advantage of the experience of the developed European countries, and handle properly the relationships among higher education size, quality and structure.