현행 고등교육평가에 관한 법률안의 고등교육평가체제 분석

Enhancing the quality of higher education institutions is crucial issue for international competitiveness of those institutions and there are move to reinforce the systems for evaluating institutions of higher education. The Korea Council for University Education has a major role in the evaluations of higher education institutions since 1980s. The current system of higher education evaluation has achieved certain results in terms of raising the quality of higher education. There are other problems such as a lack of adequate coordination among other accreditation agencies, the lack of general supervisory body for university evaluation etc. Consequently the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development submitted a Bill Concerning Higher Education Evaluation in October 2005. In the event that the bill is enacted as law, it will influence greatly the institutions of higher education. The bill stipulates the foundation of Korean Higher Education Evaluation Institute and the Institute to play the role such as evaluation of higher education, recognition of accreditation agency, constructing data base, etc. In this research it points out the issues resulting from the newly introduced system of higher education evaluation such as the institute, types, purpose, contents and criteria, procedure, disclose and utilization of evaluation results, and the operating structure of evaluation institute of higher education. It also discussed the policy directions relating to those issues.