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Globalization, Quality Assurance and Higher Education: Trends in Asia/Pacific

Globalization, Quality Assurance and Higher Education: Trends in Asia/Pacific. IFE 2020 Leadership Institute February 23-March 6, 2009 John Hawkins Deane Neubauer. The Goal .

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Globalization, Quality Assurance and Higher Education: Trends in Asia/Pacific

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  1. Globalization, Quality Assurance and Higher Education: Trends in Asia/Pacific IFE 2020 Leadership Institute February 23-March 6, 2009 John Hawkins Deane Neubauer

  2. The Goal • The Issue: Rapidly changing global higher education context shaping and reshaping what is both desired and meant by quality in higher education • The goal: Explore the emergence of a new paradigm for what defines quality in higher education and how it might be measured.

  3. Definitional Issues • Shifting ground of market definitions • Linking HE standards with those of particular industries • The compulsion toward equality of application for quality standards • HE contestations of quality by discipline • Multiplicity of measures provided by society for HE quality

  4. Sanyal and Martin (2007): ten core meanings of quality • Providing excellence • Being exceptional • Providing value for money • Conforming to specifications • Getting things right the first time • Meeting customers’ needs • Having zero defects • Providing added value • Exhibiting fitness of purpose • Exhibiting fitness for purpose

  5. Four QA Trends • Where no quality assessment existed-build it--the 1990’s as the decade of HE quality assessment program development • Refining measurement to reflect differentiations of quality • Shifting from inputs to outputs--from capacity for quality to demonstrations of quality • The rise of cross-border quality assessment and accreditation

  6. Underlying QA Factors • Conceptual • Defining HE environments through neo-liberalism • Shifting relationships between state and HEI’s • Changing methodologies and methods for applying QA to HEI’s • Internationalization and Globalization

  7. QA Factors • Structural • Privatization and “incorporation movement” • Changes in funding patterns and sources • Autonomy • Rapid expansion of HE in given environments • Rise of national agencies dedicated to quality assessment • Diversification of HE systems • Curricula changes and “alignment” issues • Proliferation of multi-campus systems

  8. QA Factors • Social/Policy • Public accountability movements • Extension of managerialism • New types of students • Public policy responsibility for QA

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