Quality Evaluations and the Media
Linda Rönnberg
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2021042825601
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The aim of this chapter is to analyse how results from the 2011 to 2014
national evaluation and quality assurance (EQA) system were communicated
to and via the media. First, the analysis focuses on the attempted
media framing, as manifested in press releases of national evaluations
from the responsible national agencies. Second, the higher education
institution-media interactions, in the context of two national quality
evaluations from two subject areas (education and specialist nursing),
are analysed from the perspective of how four higher education
institutions’ attempted framings were (re)presented by the media. The
chapter concludes with a discussion pointing to interdependence and
possible reinforcement of the media-quality assurance relationship and
points to some possible implications for education governing. The
chapter also discusses the silences and articulations that could not be
detected in the studied data, as situated within the context of
reputation management and media display in the contemporary “evaluation
society”.
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