scholarly journals Current Trends and Issues in Quality Assurance Practices: Higher Education Pakistan

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (III) ◽  
pp. 250-257
Author(s):  
Shafqat Rasool ◽  
Muhammad Arshad ◽  
Muhammad Shabbir Ali
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Online Data ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Education Commission ◽  
Research Endeavour

The purpose of this research endeavour is to explore the current trends of quality assurance practices in the public and private universities of Pakistan. This study is based on the primary data from a doctoral thesis titled a comparative study of the quality assurance (QA) practices in public and private universities and online data of these universities in 2019 to extract improvement in quality assurance practices. Last ten years QA practices have been reviewed thematically and new trends have been variegated through empirical analysis from online data. Higher Education Commission Pakistan has provided a detailed manual for quality assurance and its enhancement to the universities quality assurance cells (QECS). The characteristics of these cells have been examined to identify the improvement in QA practices and also the universities which are more dexterous in implementing these features will be acknowledged.

scholarly journals Venezuelan Higher Education: The Chavez Revolution

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Levy
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of

Hugo Chavez's clash with Venezuelan higher education is a vivid present-day example of a history of confrontation between leftist, populist regimes and higher education in Latin America. Chavez has transformed the public sector through creation and expansion of new universities. Chavez's policies have alienated the country's private institutions of higher education. Both public and private universities are reduced in importance.

ROLE OF INSTITUTIONAL MANAGERS IN QUALITY ASSURANCE: REFLECTIONS ON KENYA’S UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

2011 ◽  
Vol 01 (02) ◽  
pp. 113-124
Author(s):  
Gudo Calleb Owino ◽  
Oanda Ibrahim Ogachi ◽  
Olel Maureen A
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
University Education ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Managerial Skills ◽  
The Public ◽  
Significant Step

Universities are accountable to the stakeholders. To justify their continued existence, the managers of these universities need to guarantee the public that the institutions they lead offer quality teaching, research and community service. The study investigated how effectively university managers have played their role in quality assurance. The results indicated that private universities performed better than public universities in management of quality education. However, public and private universities suffered from interference by political and religious patronage. The other barrier to provision of effective management for quality assurance among Kenyan public and private universities was found to be negative ethnicity and nepotism. Kenyan public universities suffered from insufficient teaching and learning resources and a leadership that did not satisfactorily engage its stakeholders in decision making. It was recommended that managers of the universities should deliberately take short term leadership courses to boost their managerial skills as a significant step towards delivery of quality education. The skills acquired should be sufficient to respond to the challenges of quality education bedeviling the universities.

scholarly journals Sustainable Development at Higher Education in China: A Comparative Study of Students’ Perception in Public and Private Universities

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 2158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiawen Wang ◽  
Minghui Yang ◽  
Petra Maresova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
Private University ◽  
Public University ◽  
University Management ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
Higher Education In China

This research is implemented in the backdrop of the increasing number of private universities established in China over the last decade, and a growing public concern of sustainable development. The private university has a different reputation and source of funding compared with the public one, leading to different perception and practices toward sustainable development. Yet, none of past studies have investigated into public and private universities in the Chinese context, making this study fill this gap through comparing students’ perception in Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering (a public university) and Guangzhou College of South China University of Technology (a private university). By using the five-point Likert scale questionnaire, 393 students from the public university and 347 students from the private university participated in the survey. The results reveal that students have greatest concern with sustainability commitment and their university’s role for promoting sustainable development, and have least concern with sustainability curricula and research. Compared with students from the public university, students in the private one more often agree on the importance of sustainable development, and have a higher level of perception about commitment, knowledge, attitudes, and practices toward sustainability. The study findings assert that the higher level of perception from private university’s students is due to active campus sustainability engagement and positive stakeholder relationship managed by university management. The study implies that higher education needs to decentralize sustainable plans and decision-making to students, staff, and faculty, and public universities need to incorporate more sustainability-related context into curriculum and academic project.

scholarly journals Pandemic Preparedness and Techno Stress among Faculty of DAIs in Covid-19

sjesr ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 383-396
Author(s):  
Mahwish Zeeshan ◽  
Dr. Abid Ghafoor Chaudhry ◽  
Shaheer Ellahi Khan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
Pandemic Preparedness ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Education Commission ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
Online Readiness ◽  
The University

Amid COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan, the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan announced the closure of all public and private universities and Higher Education Institutes from mid of March 2020. The paper highlights the issues faced by the university faculty in terms of techno-stress due to a lack of pandemic preparedness. The data gathered for this research is qualitative using the exploratory methodology. The methods of the study are In-depth interviews and FGDs. Interview guide and FGD Checklist are tools employed to gather data from the faculty of sixteen Pakistani universities which is sorted thematically and illustrated through descriptive statistics. The findings of the study suggest that the global pandemic has seriously affected the higher education sector in Pakistan. The private universities and the heavily funded public universities have taken off in a bullish mode. However, the public sector universities are coping up in a bearish trend. The faculty's response also corresponds with the transition to online teaching. Besides the university's efforts to ease out learning through an online interface, the majority of the faculty is feeling overburdened with additional responsibilities about online teaching. The study highlights the gap between policymaking and the on-ground situation of the universities in terms of online readiness.

scholarly journals EXPERIENCES OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN VIRTUALITY IN THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CONTEXT IN COLOMBIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Campo Elías Flórez Pabón ◽  
Jenny Patricia Acevedo-Rincón
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
University Education ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
National Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
The North ◽  
Digital Gap ◽  
The University

Colombian basic, middle and higher education is governed by the Colombian Ministry of National Education (MEN). Higher Education Institutions are entities that have official recognition to be providers of the public service of higher education in the Colombian territory, whose legal nature is characterized by being of a public or private character. The former have general guardianship control as a public establishment and the latter enjoy constitutional and legal prerogatives that, even from the same jurisprudence, have had significant development in terms of scope, to the point of pointing out that these are organizations that belong to none of the branches of public power or private universities (2020). The current health crisis reveals the digital gap that was immersed in the Colombian educational system. According to the Ministry of Science and Technology -MINTIC, the digital gap is recognized as the socioeconomic difference between those communities that have access to ICTs and those that do not, in addition to the differences between groups according to their ability to use ICTs effectively, due to the different levels of literacy and technological capacity (MINTIC, 2019). Furthermore, this context implies that the digital gap is not closed in Colombia, as evidenced by the report on the digital gap monitoring project presented by MINTIC, but that until now the data on the digital divide is being configured to take action, idea that would be developed in this annuity. Despite this reality, the decision made worldwide was to continue with online classes regardless of the socioeconomic reality of the inhabitants in any region, and Colombia was no exception. Next, two experiences are described, developed in Colombian public and private universities, which are constituted in virtual training actions that incorporate methodological innovations in the development of classrooms in the human and exact sciences. From this reality, the experiences of the University of Pamplona and the University of the North in public and private virtuality are presented, respectively.

scholarly journals Leadership Effectiveness in Implementing Quality Assurance Programs at Private Universities of Lahore

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-72
Author(s):  
SEEMA ARIF ◽  
SAFIA IQBAL ◽  
MUHAMMAD NADEEM
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Leadership Effectiveness ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
Education Leadership ◽  
Higher Education Leadership ◽  
Leadership Characteristics ◽  
University Leadership ◽  
Education Commission ◽  
The University

Quality assurance has become acceptable, and all private universities are trying hard to achieve better standards executed by Higher Education Commission Pakistan (HEC) every year. The implementation of quality assurance (QA) programs rests upon the performance of university faculty. An exploratory study was conducted with the faculty of seven private universities in Pakistan to determine the leadership effectiveness regarding the implementation of QA programs. The strengths and weaknesses of the university leadership were measured in a three-fold exercise by identifying leadership characteristics, values, and actions taken to implement QA. For this purpose, a questionnaire was constructed, comprising both close-ended and open-ended responses. Data was collected from 430 faculty members from five private universities in Lahore, Pakistan. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were applied to meet the research objectives. The results indicate that leadership attempts are yet superficial and inadequate to reach the transformational quality. The effectiveness of higher education leadership needs much improvement to meet the needs of the 21st century. Unless the leaders align their efforts with the faculty's expectations and involve them in shared decision making, reaching transformative quality would remain barred; therefore, the sustainability of higher education will remain in danger. Keywords: Higher Education, Leadership Characteristics, Leadership Effectiveness, Private Universities, Quality Assurance.

scholarly journals Comparative Evaluation of the Implementation of Quality Assurance Mechanisms in Educational Management Programme of Universities in South-East, Geo-Political Zone of Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Nwakpa
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Comparative Evaluation ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
Management Programme ◽  
State University ◽  
Educational Management ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Research Questions

This study focused on comparative evaluation of the implementation of quality assurance mechanisms in educational management programme of public and private universities in South-East Geo-political zone of Nigeria. The study was guided by four research questions and four null hypotheses. The study was carried out in three private and eight public universities running educational management programme. The study adopted a survey research design. The population of the study was eleven heads of departments of the eleven universities. A questionnaire instrument constructed by the researcher was used to collect data for the study, titled, “Questionnaire on comparative evaluation of the implementation of quality assurance mechanisms in educational management programme of universities in South-East of Nigeria (QCEI QAMEMPUSEN). The instrument was face-validated by three experts in the department of Educational Foundations of Ebonyi State University. The reliability of the instrument was obtained using cronbach alpha reliability coefficient, and it yielded 0.83. Mean scores of the respondents were used to answer the four research questions while t-test was used to answer the four null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance.  The study came up with some major findings to include, that both types of universities (public and private universities) in South-East implementation the four major mechanisms for quality assurance in educational management programme to a little extent, but the private universities seem to record better implementation of the four mechanisms compared to the public universities. The study then recommended among others that the National Universities Commission (NUC) should lay more emphasis on the public universities especially during main accreditation exercise of universities, as to reduce the gap that exists in the standard in both types of institutions.

Fuzzy Lines: Using the Best-Selling Novel to Illustrate the Blurring Boundaries of “Public”

Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Nolan J. Argyle ◽  
Gerald A. Merwin
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Contracting Out ◽  
The Public ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Civic Community ◽  
Additional Area ◽  
Do So

Privatization, contracting out, and a host of other current trends blur the line between public and private—they create what at best is a fuzzy line. This study examines yet one additional area where the lines between public and private have gotten even fuzzier—the best selling novel. It uses the writings of Tom Clancy and Clive Cussler,two authors whose names on a novel guarantee best-seller status. It will do so in the context of what a civic community and civil society are, and how they relate to the public-private question, a question that has renewed life in public administration.

How does the public and private university environment affect students’ entrepreneurial intention?

2017 ◽  
Vol 59 (6) ◽  
pp. 550-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Duarte Canever ◽  
Maria Renata Martínez Barral ◽  
Felipe Garcia Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Business Students ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Private University ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Content Type ◽  
University Environment ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the causal links between public and private university environments and the entrepreneurial intention (EI) of students. Design/methodology/approach The impact of different university environments on the students’ EI was checked using a model adapted from Krueger et al. (2000). The study comprised a sample of students enrolled in business administration from three public and three private universities at first semester (freshmen) and at the last two semesters (senior) in Brazil. The model was measured through various questions and later assessed by principal component analysis to build constructs. Via t-test and path analysis the EI and the antecedents were subjected to a comparative analysis to test the equality of the models across the four categories emerged. Findings The two main types of Brazilian university environments (public and private) do not present significant differences in the way they influence EI and its antecedents. Both the tests of means and the tests of measurement of the structural relations between constructs confirm this finding with only a few exceptions. The result of this study is opposed to other studies carried out in Brazil, by showing that the public university environment is not worse for the entrepreneurship than the private. The environmental effects are mostly equal and they as a whole are not conducive to the development of EI. Research limitations/implications The study comprises business students only, and enrolled on regular universities. It is worth highlighting that evidence was brought to the debate for a group of universities in Brazil. Replicating the study with students from other areas and other universities, as well as students in Master’s and Doctorate programs could enrich the analyses. Practical implications This study provides insight into entrepreneurship education, as to which the university environment is conducive to the entrepreneurship. It brings insights for the development of entrepreneurial universities. Originality/value This study contributes to understanding the differences between the public and private universities environment regarding students’ EI.

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.

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