This volume of Evaluation in Higher Education presents some of trends above and implications in higher education quality issues. It includes 4 great papers regarding roles of academic ranking of higher education, challenges for quality in higher education, evaluation of higher education sustainability, and a quality policy case in France.

This volume of Evaluation in Higher Education presents some of trends above and implications in higher education setting. It includes 5 great papers regarding the development of research universities and the inspection of the indicators of current global and national rankings, quality review and evaluation ethics.

Higher Education is currently facing a number of challenging and shifts related to the quality assurance of programs and institutions globally. Shifts in the new concept of evaluation in higher education are taking place and developments are at different stages across the world, including the Asian Pacific region. This issue of Evaluation in Higher Education examines some of above trends and implications both from the American and Asian perspectives, including five great papers regarding quality assurance and ranking of higher education.