This conference proceedings presents 17 papers which examine quality assurance and evaluation in higher education, including methodologies, procedures, and ideas from various nations. The papers include: (1) "Quality Assurance in Higher Education" (Malcolm Frazer); (2) "Academic Standards Panels in Australia" (Kwong Lee Dow); (3) "The French Comite National d'Evaluation" (Andre Staropoli); (4) "The German Experience" (Edgar Frackmann); (5) "The Hong Kong Initiative" (Allan Sensicle); (6) "Towards an Indian Accreditation System" (Ashoka Chandra); (7) "The Netherlands: The Inspectorate Perspective" (Jan Kalkwijk); (8) "External Quality Assessment, Servant of Two Masters? The Netherlands University Perspective" (Ton Vroeijenstijn); (9) "Evaluation Criteria and Evaluation Systems: Reflections on Development in Sweden and Some Other OECD Countries" (Marianne Bauer); (10) "The UK Academic Audit Unit" (Peter Williams); (11) "The US Accreditation System" (Marjorie Peace Lenn); (12) "Engineering Accreditation in the United States" (Leslie Benmark); (13) "Mutual Recognition and Transfer of Credits: Developments in Europe" (Fritz Dalichow); (14) "The Experience of Validation at Hong Kong Polytechnic" (Diana Mak and Austin Reid); (15) "Quality Assurance at the Open Learning Institute" (Gajaraj Dhanarajan and Andrea Hope); (16) "External Examining at Hong Kong University" (Leung Wai-sun and Shen Chun-ming); and (17) "Conclusion" (David Bethel). An appendix contains abstracts of six additional papers. (MDM)