The question 'What the hell is quality?' has been subject to heated discussions since Pirsig posed it in 1974 in Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. To this day no conclusive answer has been formulated. And yet, the notion of higher education quality is here to stay. This dissertation investigates how people Dutch higher education 'make'…

This article examines the educational administrative reform in Thailand initiated by His Excellency Mr. Sukavich Rangsitpol during his tenure as Minister of Education and Deputy Prime Minister from 1995 to 1997. Central to this reform--later referred to as "Sukavichinomics"--was the decentralization of educational management,…

This paper presents a transformative perspective on teacher education reform developed by His Excellency Mr. Sukavich Rangsitpol, former Minister of Education of Thailand. Grounded in the principle that "teachers teach the way they were taught," Sukavichinomics emphasizes that educational reform must begin with rethinking and…