Higher education policy is becoming increasingly important on national agendas. The
widespread recognition that tertiary education1
is a major driver of economic competitiveness
in an increasingly knowledge-driven global economy has made high-quality tertiary
education more important than ever in both industrialised and developing countries.
As the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD 2008) has
recently pointed out, tertiary education contributes to social and economic development