scholarly journals Are Double/Multiple Degree Programs Leading to “Discount Degrees”?

2015 ◽  
pp. 5-7
Author(s):  
Jane Knight
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Degree Programs ◽  
The World

The growth in double/multiple degree programs around the world, especially in Europe and Asia, is unprecedented. While the benefits for both students and institutions are many, there is increasing concern about the integrity and legitimacy of those programs which double count credits for two or more qualifications. Challenging questions about the quality assurance, accreditation, recognition an ethics of double/multiple degree programs are posed.

scholarly journals Academic Standards and Quality Assurance: The Impact of COVID-19 on University Degree Programs

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (23) ◽  
pp. 10032
Author(s):  
Kelum A. A. Gamage ◽  
R. G. G. Roshan Pradeep ◽  
Vesna Najdanovic-Visak ◽  
Nanda Gunawardhana
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Student Population ◽  
Academic Standards ◽  
Degree Programs ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
New Ways Of Working ◽  
The World ◽  
University Degree ◽  
The Impact

COVID-19, caused by a member of the coronavirus family of viruses, has spread to most countries around the world since it was first recorded in humans in China in late 2019. Closing universities and cancelling all face-to-face activities have become a COVID-19 inevitable reality in many parts of the world. Its impact on university programs, particularly to maintain academic standards and quality assurance procedures, has become significantly more challenging and complex. New ways of working digitally, to minimize disruption to daily operations, have also led to enormous anxiety and uncertainty within the student population, and meeting students’ expectations has also become significantly more difficult. This paper reviews actions taken by universities to safeguard high academic standards and quality assurance procedures during this time and appraise the challenges and impacts on students’ academic performance.

scholarly journals Impact of World Trade organization (WTO) Membership on Health Laboratory Services of Nepal

2004 ◽  
Vol 43 (151) ◽  
pp. 56-58
Author(s):  
P K Shukla
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Health Services ◽  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Laboratory Accreditation ◽  
External Quality Assurance ◽  
External Quality ◽  
Laboratory Services ◽  
The World

With induction of Nepal into the World Trade Organization (WTO) members group of countries severalsectors shall have to be brought upto the internationally accepted standards. Since Health Services havealso been included in the ‘services’ to be covered, the same shall also need attention accordingly . One of thecrucial aspects of these is Laboratory services. The author with his experience in India on this aspectelaborates various’ angles of details and emphasizes need for action.Key Words: WTO, Laboratory Accreditation, External Quality Assurance.

Faculty Perspective Regarding Challenges in Implementing Quality Assurance in Zimbabwean Higher Education Institutions

2020 ◽  
pp. 372-385
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Dumbu
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Research Paradigm ◽  
The World ◽  
International Boundaries

The study focuses on challenges in implementing quality assurance in HEI in Zimbabwe. Quality assurance has been regarded as the linchpin in HEI delivery. Intensive competition from both local and international boundaries are threatening the survival of HEI if they are not taking cognizance of the importance of quality assurance. The world is becoming increasingly global, hence stakeholders' preferences and tastes are also changing, demanding more and more quality education. The demand for quality assurance is increasing with the dispensation of higher education in the world. The study was premised in the qualitative research paradigm where narrative research design was adopted. Results indicated that numerous challenges surround the implementation of quality assurance in HEI. Therefore, the study recommended a raft of measures to curb those challenges.

Quality Assurance and Institutional Research for University Strategic Management

2020 ◽  
pp. 287-308
Author(s):  
Ngepathimo Kadhila ◽  
Gilbert Likando
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Institutional Research ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
Evidence Based Decision Making

Strategic management in higher education (HE) has become data-reliant. Most higher education institutions (HEIs) all over the world have implemented quality assurance (QA) and institutional research (IR) with the purpose of generating data that that would assist in evidence-based decision making for better strategic management. However, data generated through QA and IR processes have to be integrated and streamlined in order to successfully inform strategic management. One of the challenges facing higher education institutions is to integrate the data generated by QA and IR processes effectively. This chapter examines examples of good practice for integrating the data generated by these processes for use as tools to inform strategic management, using the University of Namibia as a reference point. The chapter offers suggestions on how higher education institutions may be assisted to overcome challenges when integrating the outcomes of QA and IR processes in order to close the quality loop through effective strategic management.

Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Open and Distance Learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 1079-1097
Author(s):  
Vimbi Petrus Mahlangu
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Total Quality Management ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
New Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Open And Distance Learning

The purpose of this chapter is to argue that all open and distance learning (ODL) institutions should carry out quality assurance and accreditation processes in order for students and funders to have confidence in them. It also explains in detail what quality assurance and accreditation entails in ODL. This chapter follows a qualitative approach in understanding quality assurance and accreditation in ODL. Data were collected via literature review. During recent decades, the discourse and practices of systematic quality assurance and quality control have spread around the world, resulting to a great extent in market-based models related to the ideology and policy of neo-liberalism and expressed in economic rationalities such as new public management, total quality management, public choice, and human capital. Quality assurance and accreditation in ODL aims to maintain and raise the quality of education and to guarantee the improvement of its standards.

CDIO Standards and Quality Assurance

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Gray
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
The World ◽  
External Stakeholders ◽  
Certification And Accreditation

With Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate (CDIO) approach collaborating institutions and programs in many countries and regions of the world, it is essential that the International CDIO Leadership Council promulgate processes to assure internal and external stakeholders that member institutions and programs are adhering to the 12 CDIO Standards. The Standards are what make CDIO a unique initiative in that they provide a vehicle for realizing the CDIO vision to transform the culture of engineering education. Therefore, the CDIO Council has developed five quality assurance processes that begin with the application to become a CDIO Collaborator and include self-evaluation, certification, and accreditation based on the CDIO Standards. This article discusses the CDIO quality assurance processes and the other articles in this special issue provide case studies and other examples related to the use of the processes by CDIO collaborators.

scholarly journals The Objectives and Practical Aspects of Quality Assurance System of Higher Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Dora H. Ivanova ◽  
Olga V. Goray ◽  
Nadiia I. Horbachova ◽  
Iryna M. Krukovska ◽  
Svitlana D. Poplavska
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Education System ◽  
Educational Services ◽  
Quality Assurance System ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Assurance System ◽  
The World

Each country in the world has its own individual approaches to the quality assurance system of higher education, so the quality of educational services in each country is different. The developing countries should be guided by the standards and recommendations put forward by the world’s leading countries in the field of the assurance system of higher education in order to improve the quality of education services. The purpose of the scientific investigation is to formulate the objectives and analyze the practical aspects of functioning of the quality assurance system of higher education. In the study’s framework of the practical aspects of the higher education’s quality in European Union’s countries, the methods of general analysis have been used, including comparison and grouping; at the same time, the presentation of statistics is also demonstrated by graphical methods. The practical aspects of quality assurance of higher education in European Union’s countries have been analyzed, which is reflected in the dynamics of the number of students who have received higher education, the structure of higher education degree seeking applicants, the employment rate of graduates who have graduated from higher education institutions (Employment rates of recent graduates), the World University Rankings, the Europe Teaching Rankings, rating of the strength of the higher education system (the QS Higher Education System Strength Rankings). Proposals for ensuring the proper quality of higher education and a high level of educational services to educational institutions of the European Union have been presented.

scholarly journals A Quality Assurance Protocol for Radiocarbon Dating Laboratories

Radiocarbon ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 393-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Austin Long
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
International Atomic Energy Agency ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Reliable Data ◽  
Atomic Energy ◽  
Quality Assurance Program ◽  
Energy Agency ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
The World

The purpose of this Quality Assurance (QA) protocol is to summarize guidelines that have been accepted by directors of many radiocarbon dating laboratories throughout the world, and by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Some laboratories have followed similar procedures successfully for years. Laboratories that carefully adhere to this protocol will produce consistently reliable data that will be comparable in accuracy to all other laboratories following this or any other equally rigorous quality assurance program. This statement does not, however, pertain to samples with 14C activities highly sensitive to method or degree of pretreatment, as pretreatment techniques vary among laboratories.

scholarly journals Part 2: The Third International Radiocarbon Intercomparison (Tiri)

Radiocarbon ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-328 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Objective Measure ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Analytical Quality ◽  
The Third ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The World

TIRI was officially launched at the 14th International Radiocarbon Conference in Arizona in 1991. Prior to the conference, 150 laboratories received a letter describing the general intention to organize an intercomparison and over 90 laboratories from around the world responded positively to the invitation to participate. Simply stated, the aims of this intercomparison were: 1.To function as the third arm of the quality assurance (QA) procedure.2.To provide an objective measure of the maintenance and improvement in analytical quality.3.To assist in the development of a “self-help” scheme for participating laboratories.

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