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Quality Assurance in Education 1 Quality Assurance in Education Stephanie Matseleng Allais Issues in Education Policy Number 5 Centre for Education Policy Development Quality Assurance in Education Stephanie Matseleng Allais Issues in Education Policy Number 5 Centre for Education Policy Development Published by the Centre for Education Policy Development PO Box 31892 Braamfontein Johannesburg 2017 Tel: +27 11 403-6131 Fax: +27 11 339-3455 Copyright ? CEPD 2009 ISBN: 978-0-9814095-8-0 Series editor: John Pampallis Design and layout by: Adam Rumball, Sharkbuoys Designs Contents Preface 5 Abbreviations and Acronyms 7 Introducing Quality Assurance 9 A Very Short History of Quality Assurance 9 Debates about Quality Assurance 12 The lead parachute 12 The audit conundrum 13 Who guards the guardians? 14 Different Ways of Thinking about Quality Assurance in Education 15 Traditional ways of monitoring and improving quality in education 15 Quality assurance models 19 South African Organisations Responsible for Quality Assurance in Education 20 The current set-up 21 Umalusi 21 Department of Education 23 Higher Education Quality Committee 23 Professional associations 24 Se