scholarly journals Certification as a Viable Quality Assurance Mechanism: Theory and Suggestive Evidence

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarina Svitkova ◽  
Andreas Ortmann
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Suggestive Evidence ◽  
Quality Assurance Mechanism ◽  
Mechanism Theory

scholarly journals Quality Assurance of Online and Distance Learning Education for SAARC Region during Covid-19 Situation

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 507-519
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zia-ur- Rehman ◽  
Asif Mahmood ◽  
Maria Zia
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Survey Techniques ◽  
Learning Challenges ◽  
Quality Assurance Mechanism ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Ict Infrastructure ◽  
Second Wave

The outbreak of second wave of COVID-19 pandemic has again halted routine life of normal citizen across the globe. The nature always support the change for better future and covid-19 has provide chance to change challenges into opportunities. This study is sought to examine post Covid-19 effects on ICT infrastructure for e-learning education and its quality assurance mechanism in SAARC countries. This research is descriptive in nature and use comparative analysis of numerous challenges faced by SAARC member countries for implementation of E-learning. Challenges and limitation are also brush-up for further refinement in future in these areas. Future researchers may conduct survey techniques in explanatory research on implementation of ICT infrastructure of SAARC region countries. SAARC member countries may take lead from this study to address challenges and their solutions for development and implementation of E-learning.

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.

Promoting Program Fidelity through Peer-Assisted Supervision and Support

2017 ◽  
pp. 405-416
Author(s):  
Kerri E. McPherson ◽  
Birgit Schroeter
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Parenting Program ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Parenting Interventions ◽  
Peer Supervision ◽  
Program Fidelity ◽  
Supervision Models ◽  
Quality Assurance Mechanism ◽  
Support Model

This chapter makes the case for the adoption of practitioner supervision as a quality assurance mechanism for the implementation of parenting interventions. This chapter addresses the need for effective and efficient supervision and posttraining support for the evidence-based program workforce to ensure the sustainability of delivery and the ongoing maintenance of program fidelity. Alongside other fidelity mechanisms, supervision can help develop practitioners’ confidence and competence in delivery and promote adherence to intervention protocols. Peer supervision has the potential to be both efficient and effective and may be more acceptable to stakeholders than traditional hierarchical supervision models. The Peer-Assisted Supervision and Support model is described, and findings describing its acceptability and feasibility to parenting program practitioners are presented.

scholarly journals Current Status and Prospects for the Quality Assurance in Border Guards Training: European Experience

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 20-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrii Balendr
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
The State ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Quality Assurance System ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
Assurance System ◽  
Quality Assurance Mechanism ◽  
And Training ◽  
The Eu

Abstract The article reveals the current status of the quality assurance development in the training process of the European Union (EU) border guard agencies. Besides, the study aims to describe the prospects for further quality assurance development of the border guards training in the EU countries. The views of scientists on the concepts of “quality assurance and control” and “quality of training” were critically studied. The quality of a border guard’s training was defined as a set of knowledge, skills and competencies of a border guard, including a border guard’s personal qualities, characteristics, which define a person as a specialist in the sphere of the state border protection and distinguishes him or her from other specialists and ensures success along the border guard career path. The study of the quality assurance system of border guards’ training in the EU countries revealed that it is conducted by the European policies and educational and training standards and promotes the formal certification and external accreditation of border guards’ training. It is indicated that the prospects for developing quality assurance mechanism for all-European border guard courses are connected with the possibility to provide external accreditation for such courses as: Introduction to Educational Technology and Training Delivery Methodology, which the author completed in 2017 and 2018. The process of accreditation is being conducted by an international quality assurance agency. The quality assurance system of the border guards training in EU is used in the Joint European Master’s Program in Strategic Border Management, developed by FRONTEX Agency in cooperation with European educational establishments. So, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine can be particularly interested in this program, in order to facilitate the increasing of quality of Ukrainian border guards training.

scholarly journals LOOKING FOR A ‘QUALITY ASSESSMENT MECHANISM’ FOR TEACHING ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY THROUGH OPEN AND DISTANCE EDUCATION

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kolita S. Weerasekera
Keyword(s):  
Applied Sciences ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
High Standard ◽  
Open University ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Engineering Technology ◽  
Quality Assurance Mechanism

Although general courses related to humanities, social sciences, education and pure sciences are popularly taught through distance mode, through the institutions involved in teaching distance mode techniques for some time, more practical application courses such as engineering technology and applied sciences are less popular as distance mode teaching till recent. The current technical advancement is making it possible for more practical application courses to be offered through distance education techniques. The Faculty of Engineering Technology of the Open University of Sri Lanka is one of the few faculties involved in teaching of engineering technology through distance mode in the region. Faculty offers courses leading to diploma in technology, bachelor in engineering technology, postgraduate diplomas and postgraduate degrees in engineering through distance mode. The diplomats and graduates passing out from the faculty have to compete with the diplomats and graduates passing out from the conventional universities in the common job markets. Hence to maintain a high quality of the diploma/degree is important. Attempt is made to develop a quality assurance system that will help to maintain a high standard of the faculty diploma/graduate output. This study investigates the strengths, and in particular the weaknesses of quality assessment practices used in conducting subject reviews in Sri Lankan universities, especially when it comes to subject reviews in relation to more practical application courses such as engineering technology and applied sciences. This paper describes the aspects that were looked into: adopted current practices & the weaknesses, areas identified to check on quality maintenance, and measures to be taken to improve in developing a quality assurance mechanism based on the Faculty of Engineering Technology at Open University of Sri Lanka.

scholarly journals Nuclear Pre-snRNA Export Is an Essential Quality Assurance Mechanism for Functional Spliceosomes

Cell Reports ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (11) ◽  
pp. 3199-3214.e3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Becker ◽  
Anna Greta Hirsch ◽  
Lysann Bender ◽  
Thomas Lingner ◽  
Gabriela Salinas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Quality Assurance Mechanism ◽  
Essential Quality

Guarding the gate politically and politely: How accreditation teams do facework while gatekeeping

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Ho
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Academic Program ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
Australian Context ◽  
Quality Assurance Mechanism ◽  
Face Threats ◽  
Evaluative Language ◽  
Accredited Institutions

AbstractAccreditation is a quality assurance mechanism which evaluates either the capability of an institution to offer an academic program or the quality of an academic program before its launch. Accredited institutions and programs are allowed to enroll students, both fee-paying and non-fee-paying. The outcome of an accreditation exercise will therefore have significant implications for an institution’s reputation and finance. Institutions are normally informed of the outcome through an accreditation report, a genre whose discourse is intrinsically interesting and important, and thus deserves fuller research attention, for two reasons: (1) the genre contains evaluations and comments which can be negative and face-threatening, and (2) the accreditation team, as we can safely assume, will do facework subsequent to the performance of face threats through the negative evaluations and comments. The present study seeks to gain a better understanding of the lexicogrammar of this genre in general, and the lexicogrammar used to textualize facework in particular by analyzing the discourse of 30 accreditation reports in an Australian context. This paper argues that the evaluative language used in this genre can serve to perform facework for both the institution being accredited and the accreditation team itself, and have important implications for both the workplace and classroom.

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