An architecture of the information collected from higher education institutions by NIAD-QE

Abstract

We reconsider the architecture of the information collected from higher education institutions by the National Institution for Academic Degrees and Quality Enhancement of Higher Education (NIAD-QE) and analyze its character. NIAD-QE periodically collects educational information, evidence-based documents, and self-assessment reports to enhance the quality of higher education, which are in a broad sense used to support university reform. These data represent a collection of organizational information gathered by observing higher education institutions in which, to collect the facts about organizational members, the data are aggregated in tabulated form. However, we find that this is not as efficient a way of conveying the information content in a limited data size as the original individual data sets.