scholarly journals The ‘Regulatory State’ in Higher Education: Assuring Quality through New Modalities of Control in Brazil

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flavia de Mattos Donadelli
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Regulatory State ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Regulatory Governance ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
Rapid Transformation

The Brazilian Higher Education (HE) sector, following a global trend of rapid transformation, has undergone marked changes over the past two decades. These changes have involved the design of quality assurance tools as instruments for regulatory governance. In presenting an overview of the recent history and characteristics of quality assurance in the Brazilian HE sector, this paper contextualises the Brazilian experience according to broader conceptual frameworks and discusses how and why regulatory governance in this sector has so radically changed.

scholarly journals The ‘Regulatory State’ in Higher Education: Assuring Quality through New Modalities of Control in Brazil

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flavia de Mattos Donadelli
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Regulatory State ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Regulatory Governance ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
Rapid Transformation

The Brazilian Higher Education (HE) sector, following a global trend of rapid transformation, has undergone marked changes over the past two decades. These changes have involved the design of quality assurance tools as instruments for regulatory governance. In presenting an overview of the recent history and characteristics of quality assurance in the Brazilian HE sector, this paper contextualises the Brazilian experience according to broader conceptual frameworks and discusses how and why regulatory governance in this sector has so radically changed.

scholarly journals Legal Education in Pakistan: An Overview

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 401
Author(s):  
Sardar Ali Shah ◽  
Usharani Balasingam ◽  
Saroja Dhanapal
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Regulatory System ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Education Commission ◽  
Quality Assurance Mechanism ◽  
Two Bodies

Legal education in Pakistan was initiated before independence and dates back to the 1800s. The first legal education institution was established under the name of ‘University Law College’ in 1868. Currently, there are more than 150 institutions offering law programs, which include universities and law colleges. These institutions are regulated by the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) and Higher Education Commission (HEC). Over the past decades, there have been a lot of concerns raised on the quality assurance mechanism with regards to legal education in Pakistan. In line with this, the objectives of the current study is to identify and analyse the roles and responsibilities of the HEC and the PBC as regulators of legal education in the country as well as to identify the strengths and weaknesses within this regulatory system as a result of an overlapping of powers between the two bodies. The article ends with recommendations for improvement.

scholarly journals Arab Open and Virtual Universities

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Porcaro
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Access To Higher Education ◽  
The Past ◽  
Virtual Universities ◽  
At Home

The landscape of online and virtual universities has been expanding in the Arab world in the past decade. Enrollments are rising steadily, allowing access to higher education for students at home and overseas. As growth continues, more centralization, institution-created content, and quality assurance may be required.

scholarly journals Quality assurance in Asian distance education: Diverse approaches and common culture

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Insung Jung ◽  
Tat Meng Wong ◽  
Chen Li ◽  
Sanjaa Baigaltugs ◽  
Tian Belawati
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Policy Integration ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Past ◽  
National Quality ◽  
Policy Frameworks

With the phenomenal expansion of distance education in Asia during the past three decades, there has been growing public demand for quality and accountability in distance education. This study investigates the national quality assurance systems for distance education at the higher education level in Asia with the aim of contributing to a better understanding of the current level of development of quality assurance in Asian distance education and to offer potential directions for policy makers when developing and elaborating quality assurance systems for distance education. The analysis of the existing quality assurance frameworks in the 11 countries/territories selected reveals that the level of quality assurance policy integration in the overall national quality assurance in higher education policy framework varies considerably. The purpose of quality assurance, policy frameworks, methods, and instruments in place are generally tailored to each country’s particular circumstances. There are, however, obvious commonalities that underpin these different quality assurance efforts. <br /><br />

scholarly journals Globalization and Quality Assurance in Panama

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nanette Svenson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Developing World ◽  
The Past ◽  
Two Factors

Higher education in the developing world has changed dramatically over the past two decades, mainly as a result of increasing globalization. The most impacting of these forces come from two directions: economic and political. How the two factors interact and the kind of system they produce depend largely upon the quality-assurance mechanisms implemented.

Higher and Engineering Education Quality Assurance

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Gray
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
The Past ◽  
Language And Power ◽  
Education Quality Assurance

Quality assurance has been defined as a means of “control over the standards, delivery, and validation of higher education” (Brock, 2007, p. 25). Over the past twenty-five years (one could say 2500 years) calls for quality assurance have caused tension inside and with regards to the outcomes of higher education. These tensions stem from differing purposes, perceptions, and processes for quality assurance on the part of the groups that compete to control these elements. In essence, it is a matter of language and power (Ewell, 1989), that is, whoever defines the language of quality assurance purposes, perceptions, and processes has the power to control higher education. Inside higher education those in different disciplines may have quite divergent views of quality assurance. Often these views are divided along the lines of the sciences and humanities, as characterized by Snow (1961). In addition, the more applied or profession-oriented disciplines, such as engineering, business, health professions, and teacher education, have their own expectations related to the standards, delivery, and validation of higher education. It is often the case that faculty and administrative cultures within an institution have differing views related to purposes, perceptions, and processes of quality assurance.

scholarly journals Kecenderungan Global Pendidikan Tinggi Dan Pergeseran Paradigma Reformasi Pendididikan Tinggi Pada \Institusi Pendidikan Tinggi Keagamaan Islam

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Ahmad Syamsul Arifin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Research University ◽  
Private Higher Education ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Financing Higher Education ◽  
University Industry ◽  
University Industry Linkages

Abstract Massifikation impact of globalization and the phenomenon has changed the global trend of higher education around the world over the past decades. The global trend include: globalization and internaionalisasi, access and equity, private higher education and privatization, quality assurance framework, accountability and qualifications, financing higher education, centralization and crisis of academic profession, experience of students, teaching, learning and assessment, information technology communication and distance education, research, university-industry linkages. The global trend is also creating a number of opportunities and challenges for institutions of higher education. More juah, the global trend is also helped provide a significant impact to the paradigm shift in institutional reform of higher education, including higher education which includes the Islamic religious dimension of globalization, localization, and individualization. Keywords: global trends, Higher Education, Higher Education Islamic Religious

The International Connections of Religious Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 487-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace Karram
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Private Higher Education ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Multiple Stakeholders ◽  
The Past ◽  
African Higher Education ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Religious Higher Education

Over the past decade, the largest growth in Sub-Saharan Africa’s private higher education has been among institutions with religious affiliations. This article examines the rise of private, religious higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa with international affiliations. Using an analysis of multiple stakeholders from the region and international community, the rationales and implications of religion higher education Africa are considered. Accreditation, quality assurance, funding, and development assistance are explored as key issues within African higher education. This article concludes with a discussion of the global divide between secular and religious ideologies and calls for more research into the impacts of religious higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Cross-culture outcomes of a brazilian professor Fulbright in the USA

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (50) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Marcelo Da Silva Leite ◽  
Celeste Gaia
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Cross Culture ◽  
College And University ◽  
Governmental Agencies ◽  
The Past ◽  
University Curriculum ◽  
Fulbright Scholar ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Higher Education Costs

Over the past decade due the expansion of globalization there has been an increasing emphasis on internationalization among faculty, administration and accrediting agencies in the Higher Education.  Although to promote internationalization in the Higher Education, costs are a big challenge, one way to have the international actions with low cost, it is seeking for grants from different governmental agencies and foundations.The Fulbright Scholar program provides a long-standing and externally-funded means for internationalizing college and university curriculum. This article is going to share the perspective   of a Brazilian Fulbright Scholar at an American college and the institution perspective of the Fulbright scholar participation at the College.

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