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Citation reference: Harvey, L., 2004, Analytic Quality
Glossary, Quality
Research International, http://www.qualityresearchinternational.com/glossary/
This is
a dynamic glossary and the author would welcome any e-mail
suggestions for amendments or additions.
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Stakeholder
core definition
A stakeholder is a person (or group) that
has an interest in the activities of an institution or organisation.
explanatory
context
In the context of higher education
quality, stakeholders are those groups that have inter alia an
interest in the quality of provision and standard of outcomes. These include
government, employers, students, academic and administrative staff,
institutional managers, prospective students and their parents, taxpayers.
analytical
review
Campbell and Rozsnyai (2002,
p. 133) define it as:
Stakeholder: Students, society, and government participating in or benefiting from the provision of education.
Maassen (2000) suggests that:
According to
some definitions stakeholders in higher education mean specific groups of
external actors that have a direct or indirect interest in higher education and
cannot always be covered by the consumer-provider analogy. New stakeholders
have penetrated a traditional monopolistic relationship between the state and public
higher education institutions with two main characteristics. Firstly, the role
of the external actors has become more important in last few decades. Secondly,
the influence of these external actors has also grown with respect to internal
affairs of individual higher education institutions
related terms
sources
Campbell, C. & Rozsnyai,
C., 2002, Quality Assurance and the Development of Course Programmes. Papers on Higher Education
Regional University Network on Governance and Management of Higher Education in
South East Europe Bucharest, UNESCO.
Maassen, P.
(2000). Editorial. European Journal of Education, 4, 377Ð83.