The past years have witnessed a frenzied expansion of colleges and universities. Many schools, however, have just focused on scale expansion, but neglected quality improvement.

过去几年，高校掀起了一阵扩招的热潮。然而，许多学校只关注于规模的扩大，却忽视了教学质量的改善。

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How to maintain and improve their teaching quality is an urgent problem for all colleges and universities under the condition of enrollment expansion.

在教学规模扩大的条件下，如何保障和提高教学质量是所有高校面临的一个亟待解决的问题。

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The problem for the governors is particularly distressing because they all agree that the quality of their colleges and universities helps drive the economic engines of their states.

对州长们来说，这个问题特别令他们感到苦恼，因为他们都普遍认为，大学的教育质量为他们州的经济提供了原动力。

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The quality of research in 170 universities and colleges is checked every few years.

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The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) exists to review the performance of universities and colleges of higher education.

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Releasing NSSE, CLA, and post-graduate success data would be a good first step toward more transparency and would allow the producers of academic quality rankings to better serve both the consumers of and investors in colleges and universities.

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