Higher Education Quality Evaluation: A Game-Theory Approach

This paper looks at the interaction in the process of higher education quality evaluation between the national education authorities, higher education institutions, and evaluators. On the basis of a game model it has established, the paper comes to the conclusion that strategic choices of the higher education institution and the evaluator have a direct effect on each other´s payoff and on evaluation of higher education quality, and that the application of supervisory and penal mechanisms can constrain effectively the strategic choices of the higher education institution and the evaluator, thus aligning the interests of the three sides.