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Emerging Challenges, Emerging Practices : Sharing a Global Vision of Quality Assurance in Higher Education

Emerging Challenges, Emerging Practices : Sharing a Global Vision of Quality Assurance in Higher Education. Edilberto C de Jesus Secretariat Director SEAMEO. Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization. SEAMEO Member States. Indonesia (1965) Lao PDR (1965) Malaysia (1965)

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Emerging Challenges, Emerging Practices : Sharing a Global Vision of Quality Assurance in Higher Education

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  1. Emerging Challenges, Emerging Practices: Sharing a Global Vision of Quality Assurance in Higher Education Edilberto C de Jesus Secretariat Director SEAMEO

  2. Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization

  3. SEAMEO Member States Indonesia (1965) Lao PDR (1965) Malaysia (1965) Philippines (1965) Singapore (1965) Thailand (1965) Cambodia (1968) Brunei Darussalam (1981) Vietnam (1992) Myanmar (1997) Timor-Leste (2006)

  4. SEAMEO Associate Members Australia (1973) France (1973) New Zealand (1974) Canada (1988) Germany (1990) Netherlands (1993) Norway (2005) SEAMEO Affiliate Members International Council for Open and Distance Education (1999)

  5. SEAMEO Units INNOTECH CHAT SPAFA TROPMED Philippines Secretariat RIHED SEARCA RETRAC TROPMED Thailand TROPMED Network VOCTECH RECSAM • 11 Specialised Regional • Centres • Network (with 4 centres) • on tropical medicine and • public health • Secretariat TROPMED Malaysia RELC TROPMED Indonesia SEAMOLEC BIOTROP

  6. Diversity within SEAMEO • Education systems at different stage of development • Operating with different levels of resources

  7. Budget for Education

  8. Allocation of Expenditure Per Student

  9. Mission of Higher Education Institutions • Teaching • Research • Service

  10. Personal Perspectives • Philippine Experience • Private Corporate Sector • Government Perspective • Regional Association

  11. Pressures on HEI • Demand for Greater Access • Demand for Higher Quality • Declining Government Support

  12. Pressures on HEI • Expansion of Knowledge SIMS Research: world production of original information - 1999: 2-3 EB (Exabytes) (1 EB = 1018 bytes) - 2002: 5 EB (500 additional US LCs)

  13. Pressures on HEI SIM Research: Information on the Web - 2000: 20-50 TB (Terabytes) (1 TB = 1012 bytes) - 2003: 167 terabytes (16.7 more US LC)

  14. Pressures on HEI SIM Research: Email Volume - 2003: 31 billion messages/day - 2006: 62 billion messages/day

  15. Peter A Henning ( Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences): “In the past five years, we have produced more data than in the 5,000 years before – and the data volume increase in speeding up.”

  16. Issues in Knowledge Explosion • Data Heat • Data Accuracy • Data Relevance

  17. Implications for QA Efforts • Teaching: content coverage (What to teach?) • Research: • Keeping Pace • Controlling Costs • Maintaining Focus

  18. UNESCO: Research and Higher Education Policy, Nov. 2006 Arthur Biennenstock (Vice Provost and Dean of Research and Graduate Policy, Stanford): Essential Characteristics of Research Universities • High quality faculty committed to research and teaching • High quality graduate students

  19. UNESCO: Research and Higher Education Policy, Nov. 2006 • An intellectual climate that encourages scholarship • Facilities to support effective teaching and research • Funding for operations and instruction

  20. UNESCO: Research and Higher Education Policy, Nov. 2006 • Research funding • Research infrastructure • High quality leadership

  21. North-South Divide • Resources • Problems • Mission • Standards

  22. Divisions in the North American dominance of Global 10 University Rankings: • Only Oxford and Cambridge in contention • Spending on tertiary education: UK-- 1.1% of GDP US– 2.6% of GDP (1.4% private sector) Any European world-class research universities in 20 years’ time?

  23. Divisions within Countries • 4000+ HEI in the US (Carnegie Foundation, 2000) • Research Universities: 261

  24. Parallels between Basic and Higher Education • Simultaneous Demand for Access and Quality • Priority on Access • Declining government budgets • Entry of private sector entrepreneurs • On-line/distance education • Priority on Teaching

  25. Implications for APQN • Strengthen QA on the teaching function • Establish guidelines for research in teaching institutions • Develop metrics for different HEI levels

  26. Implications for APQN • Focus on threshold indicators • Priority to Teaching vs. Research

  27. Thank You

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