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英國高等教育評鑑制度之重要改革 楊 瑩 淡江大學教育政策與領導研究所與高等教育研究所教授 兼高等教育研究所所長 yingchan@.tw 中文摘要 英國高等教育制度長久以來是以「雙軌制」稱著於世。自1992年《擴充與高等教育法》公布，允許多元技術學院等其他高等教育機構改制為大學後，其著名的高等教育雙軌制遂走入歷史。基本上，英國高等教育的評鑑是將教學評鑑與研究評鑑分開進行，不但負責評鑑的單位不同，評鑑進行的方式及所採用之指標亦不相同。本文旨在針對英國高等教育評鑑制度最近之改革進行探討，除先簡扼說明英國高等教育制度的現況外，分析的重點包括其高等教育評鑑制度的沿革發展、最新的改革趨勢及其面臨的問題。 關鍵詞：英國、高等教育評鑑、品質保證、教學評鑑、研究評鑑、品質保證局、 研究評鑑作業 Major reforms of the British Higher Education Evaluation System Ying Chan, Professor, Graduate Institute of Higher Education, and Graduate Institute of Educational Policy and Leadership, Tamkang University Abstract The well-known “binary” system of higher education in the United Kingdom was ended after the 1992 Further and Higher Education Act. On the whole, the teaching quality and research quality of higher education are evaluated by two separate bodies in the United Kingdom. On the one hand, it is the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), originally via undertaking teaching assessment both at institutional and subject levels, responsible for the improvement in the quality of teaching and learning in higher education. On the other hand, the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), is in charge of carrying out research assessments, and providing ratings of the quality of research conducted in higher education institutions. This paper is aiming to explore the recent reforms of higher education evaluation (or, more often used, quality assessment or assurance) system in the United Kingdom. In so doing, this paper starts with a brief introduction of the existing British higher education system, then the focus of this paper is on the analysis of the historical development, recent reforms of the British higher education evaluation system, as well as questions raised from its recent reforms. . Keywords：United Kingdom, Higher Education Evaluation, Quality Assurance, Teaching Assessment, Research Assessment, QAA, RAE. 壹、前言 英國的正式國名為「大不列顛與北愛爾蘭聯合王國」（United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland），所謂的「大不列顛」（