COUNTRY-BASED AND INTERNATIONAL QUALITY ASSURANCE

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1 COUNTRY-BASED AND INTERNATIONAL QUALITY ASSURANCE Judith S. Eaton, President Council for Higher Education Accreditation USA 2011 HEEACT International Conference 2-3 June 2011 Taipei, Taiwan

2 OVERVIEW COUNTRY-BASED QUALITY ASSURANCE PRESSURES TO INTERNATIONALIZE QUALITY ASSURANCE INTERNATIONAL QUALITY ASSURANCE: TOOLS AND APPROACHES IMPLICATIONS FOR STUDENTS AND INSTITUTIONS

3 COUNTRY-BASED QUALITY ASSURANCE FOR 117 COUNTRIES: 77 HAVE FULLY DEVELOPED QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEMS 40 ARE DEVELOPING SYSTEMS OLDEST FORM OF QA STRUCTURE EXTRAORDINARY GROWTH SOURCE: GUNI 2007

4 COUNTRY-BASED QUALITY ASSURANCE - 2 ACCOUNTABILITY AND IMPROVEMENT MISSION OR FITNESS FOR PURPOSE STANDARDS-BASED SELF REVIEW PEER REVIEW PROFESSIONAL JUDGING PROFESSIONALS TRUST-BASED FORMATIVE EVALUATION FAMILIAR AND SIMILAR WORLD-WIDE.

5 INTERNATIONALIZING.THE 1990s INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS: QUALITY LABEL WTO, GATS FOR ACCREDITATION AND QUALITY ASSURANCE INQAAHE NETWORKS: AfriQAN, ANQAHE, APQAN, AQAN, CANQATE, CEEN, EAQAN, ENAEE, ENQA, ECA, RIACES EUROPEAN BOLOGNA PROCESS

6 CONTINUING PRESSURES TO INTERNATIONALIZE MASSIFICATION INTERNATIONAL STUDENT MOBILITY CHANGING ECONOMIES AND INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS GLOBALIZATION : SOCIAL, CULTURAL, EDUCATIONAL WORLD CLASS EDUCATION

7 AND MORE PRESSURES.. 30 PERCENT ENROLLMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION WORLD WIDE IN PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATION FOR-PROFIT HIGHER EDUCATION DEGREE MILLS AND ACCREDITATION MILLS LAST UNREGULATED GLOBAL INDUSTRY

8 EMERGING TOOLS: QUALITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY RANKINGS: GLOBAL, REGIONAL, COUNTRY-BASED QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORKS: REGIONAL AND COUNTRY-BASED ASSESSMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION LEARNING OUTCOMES (AHELO) INTERNATIONAL RANKING EXPERT GROUP (IREG) U-MULTIRANK OUTSIDE TYPICAL QA STRUCTURES

9 EMERGING EMPHASES - INTERNATIONALIZING QA PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY TRANSPARENCY STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES INSTITUTIONAL PERFORMANCE EXPANDING ROLE OF GOVERNMENT INTERNATIONAL QA IS DIFFERENT FROM COUNTRY-BASED QA

10 RELATIONSHIP: COUNTRY-BASED AND INTERNATIONAL QUALITY ASSURANCE ALIGN COUNTRY-BASED SYSTEMS WITH EMERGING INTERNATIONAL TOOLS INCORPORATE INTERNATIONAL TOOLS IN COUNTRY- BASED QUALITY ASSURANCE EFFORTS REPLACE COUNTRY-BASED SYSTEMS WITH INTERNATIONAL TOOLS COUNTRY-BASED QUALITY ASSURANCE DEVELOPS CAPACITY FOR OVERSIGHT OF INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITY IS IGNORING INTERNATIONALIZING OF QA AN OPTION?

11 RELATIONSHIP: COUNTRY-BASED AND INTERNATIONAL QUALITY ASSURANCE - 2 ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR DEGREE MILLS AND ACCREDITATION MILLS ENLARGED ROLE OF QUALITY ASSURANCE IN FOR- PROFIT HIGHER EDUCATION EXPANDED ROLE FOR MULTI-NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS TRANSPARENCY TOOLS ACCOUNTABILITY TOOLS QUALITY ASSURANCE TOOLS

12 INTERNATIONAL QA - POTENTIAL ADVANTAGES FOR STUDENTS, INSTITUTIONS ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR STUDENT MOBILITY MORE INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERSHIPS: PROGRAMS, RESEARCH ENHANCED INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING GREATER TRANSPARENCY PROTECTION AGAINST DEGREE MILLS AND ACCREDITATION MILLS

13 INTERNATIONAL QA - POTENTIAL DISADVANTAGES FOR STUDENTS, INSTITUTIONS DIMINUTION OF INSTITUTIONAL ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP - MISSION, FITNESS FOR PURPOSE OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF JUDGMENTS ABOUT QUALITY EMPHASIS ON ACCOUNTABILITY AT THE PRICE OF QUALITY IMPROVEMENT DIMINISHED INDEPENDENCE FOR FACULTY

14 SUMMARY COUNTRY-BASED QUALITY ASSURANCE WELL- ESTABLISHED INTERNATIONALIZING QUALITY ASSURANCE INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT COUNTRIES, GOVERNMENTS, INSTITUTIONS, MULTI- NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS CHALLENGED TO ASSURE THAT INTERNATIONALIZING YIELDS ADVANTAGES, NOT DISADVANTAGES

15 THANK YOU