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Challenges in Quality Assurance in Higher

Challenges in Quality Assurance in Higher Education in the Southern Mediterranean Region Dr. Nadia Badrawi Vice President of the Arab Network for Quality Assurance in Higher Education Board Member, Advisory Board of the CHEA International Quality Group CIQG Croatia, 12 of June 2014.

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Challenges in Quality Assurance in Higher

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  1. Challenges in Quality Assurance in Higher Education in the Southern Mediterranean RegionDr. Nadia BadrawiVice President of the Arab Network for Quality Assurance in Higher EducationBoard Member, Advisory Board of the CHEA International Quality Group CIQG Croatia,12 of June 2014

  2. Overview and Acknowledgement Overview • Historical Background of ANQAHE • QA Challenges in the Southern Mediterranean (Arab) Region Acknowledgment • ANQAHE scoping study, 2012 • Direct emails with the directors and presidents of 9 QAA from the Arab region, 2014, 6 of them responded

  3. Background of ANQAHE ANQAHE as a regional network to coordinate and boost higher education QA efforts • Includes 11 QAA as full members and 5 QA Entities as Associate members to form 16 countries out of the 22 Arab Countries • Higher Education Institution members • Individual Members

  4. Diversity of QA in the Arab Region • Stage of development of QA • Size of population • Economic capacity • Access to HE • Political situation

  5. Challenges in QA in Southern Mediterranean Countries

  6. Newly Developed QAAs Challenges • Validation of the law without hindering the independence and the autonomy of the Agency • Conduction of more pilot external evaluation to develop expertise needed to conduct the accreditation processes

  7. Newly Developed QAAs Challenges • Benefices from experiences and resources. • Developing sustainable QA systems that are appropriate for different types of HE modes and development • Capacity building

  8. QAAs Challenges in the Region • Total reliance on Governments for HE and QA funding • Limited financial resources

  9. QAAs Challenges in the Region • Political instability in some countries • Large number of students.

  10. QAAs Challenges in the Region • QAAs governance • Continuous alteration in the administration of the leaderships. • Accreditation of professional programs • Accreditation of technical colleges • Slow response of private universities to QA efforts

  11. QAAs Challenges in the Region • Developing a fitness-for-purpose assessment for the research activities, and facilitate establishment of research centers within the remit of QAAs.

  12. QAAs Challenges in the Region • Old and exhausted infrastructure at the public universities • Enhancing the employability of graduates.

  13. QA Capacity Building most needed by HEIs

  14. Challenges to ANQAHE • Supporting the emergence of new QAAs and strengthening less developed ones • Facing cross border accreditation mills • Facilitating exchange of resources and best practicesin the region

  15. Challenges to ANQAHE • Networking and partnership with interfacing regions (ENQA, ANQAHE, AFRIQAN, APQN, etc

  16. Challenges to ANQAHE • Transfer the information about the new forms of higher education such as distance, MOOCs and hybrid programs, and establish a benchmarks within the region.

  17. Challenges to ANQAHE • Activate the generic Arab qualification framework developed by ANQAHE and validate it against national frameworks to ensure convergence of HE

  18. QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK- ANQAHE MODELMay 182012

  19. Thank you on behalf of ANQAHE www.anqahe.org nadia@badrawi.com

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