scholarly journals “Let Me Enjoy Teaching” Improving Academic Quality Assurance Practices to Attain Teaching Excellence: Case Study of Selected Private Higher Education Institutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 237-254
Author(s):  
Randa Hariri
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Private Higher Education ◽  
Academic Quality ◽  
Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽  
Teaching Excellence ◽  
Private Higher Education Institutions

The purpose of this study was to identify the academic quality assurance practices that should be employed to attain teaching excellence at selected private higher education institutions in the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The study adopted a qualitative interpretive research design and utilized one-to-one, in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 12 participants. The sample was purposefully selected and comprised six faculty members, four program directors, one senior academic staff member, and one junior non-academic administrator, from three private higher education institutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Findings revealed four categories of practices: a) Must-keep practices, b) Must-modify practices, c) Must-add practices, and d) Must-avoid practices. Some of the practices relating to quality assurance that the study identified are maintaining important evaluation-related practices while providing feedback for improvement, closing the loop, educating all employees about and increasing their reengagement in quality assurance practice, and reducing paperwork and work duplication. This study concludes by recommending that higher education institutions employ the strategies discussed in the findings to promote teaching creativity and to improve the quality of teaching and learning, to achieve teaching excellence.

Identities of Chinese Community-Based Higher Education Institutions in Malaysia: an Exploration Study Using the Concept of ‘Roots’

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-88
Author(s):  
Chang Da Wan ◽  
Molly N.N. Lee ◽  
Morshidi Sirat ◽  
Wen Zhuo Heng
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Private Higher Education ◽  
Chinese Community ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Greater China ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Ethnic Chinese ◽  
Private Higher Education Institutions

Abstract Malaysia is a multi-racial country where about a quarter of the population are ethnic Chinese. Arguably, Malaysia is also the only country outside of Greater China to have a ‘complete’ Chinese education track from primary to higher education. The Malaysia higher education system, consisting of both public and private higher education institutions, has five private higher education institutions that can be considered as ‘Chinese community-based’. These institutions were established by various interest groups in the Chinese community with seemingly different purposes. Hence, based on interviews with 23 participants, ranging from institutional leaders, administrators, mid-level academic managers and academic staff across three ‘Chinese community-based’ institutions, this paper explores the identities of these ‘Chinese community-based’ institutions. Using the concept of ‘roots’ (根) as an analytical lens, this paper illustrates three distinctive identities of these institutions which can be described as the ethnically proud (寻根问祖), the accommodator (落地生根) and the uprooted (失根群族). The understanding of these different identities illuminated the fact that there are subtle but crucial differences even across the three selected ‘Chinese community-based’ higher education institutions in Malaysia. More importantly, this diversity has crucial implications for policymaking in the governance of higher education institutions, positioning and branding of these institutions, as well as understanding of educational development of the Chinese diaspora outside of Greater China.

scholarly journals Compulsory Citizenship Behaviour among Academic Staff of Private Higher Education Institutions in Melaka, Malaysia

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3S2) ◽  
pp. 448-453
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Job Stress ◽  
Direct Relationship ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Intention To Leave ◽  
Private Higher Education ◽  
Human Capital Management ◽  
Private Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Organisational Politics

Compulsory citizenship behaviour (CCB) refers to employees who perform extra-role behaviour against their will. The study is among one of a handful on compulsory citizenship behaviour if compared with organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB), which are directed toward individuals (OCBI) and an organisation (OCBO) as a whole. Thus, this study mainly focuses examining the effect of intention to leave, job stress, sucker effect, burnout, organisational politics, negligent behaviour, and conflict between colleagues on compulsory citizenship behaviour. A total of 100 academic staff from private higher education institutions in Melaka participated in this study. Self-administered questionnaires were used for data collection and SmartPLS was employed to perform the analysis. The findings of this study reveal that negligent behaviour and organisational politics have a significant direct relationship with compulsory citizenship behaviour. This study not only has noteworthy contributions on enriching the available literature on compulsory citizenship behaviour, but also provides some important insights to employers in private higher education institutions in relation to their human capital management, which focuses on compulsory citizenship behaviour.

scholarly journals Factual Model of Internal Quality Assurance System of Private Higher Education Institutions in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Andi Mursidi ◽  
Tri Joko Raharjo ◽  
Sugiyo Sugiyo ◽  
Arief Yulianto
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Private Higher Education ◽  
Internal Quality ◽  
Quality Assurance System ◽  
Assurance System ◽  
Internal Quality Assurance ◽  
Private Higher Education Institutions

Quality has increasingly become an important success determiner for higher education institutions. The education quality highly depends on the quality of all management systems run by the higher education institutions. This research aims at explaining the factual model and identifying the main factors influencing the implementation and development of quality assurance system of private higher education institutions in West Kalimantan Province, Indonesia. Research and Development (R&D) method was used as the research methodology to develop the model. Data collection processes start by interviewing the stakeholders of internal quality assurance system at higher education institutions and then distributing questionnaires related to the implementation of internal quality assurance system at each higher education institution. The collected data was then analyzed and synthesized into the factual model. The obtained factual model consisted of three steps: planning, implementing, and evaluating the internal quality assurance. From this factual model, it is revealed that the implementation of internal quality assurance system of private higher education institutions in West Kalimantan Province, Indonesia has not completely become a part of higher education institution accountability orienting on the higher education quality assurance, but more on the temporary purposes, such as higher education institution accreditation purposes.

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