scholarly journals INDIA – CANADA COLLABORATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION – THE ROAD AHEAD

2018 ◽  
pp. 82-92
Author(s):  
Hirenkumar Dhulia
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
The Road ◽  
Quality Assurance Process ◽  
Assurance Process ◽  
External Body

Higher education accreditation is a type of quality assurance process under which services and operations of post-secondary educational institutions or programs are evaluated by an external body to determine if applicable standards are met. If standards are met, accredited status is granted by the agency.

Authentic Teaching and Learning Standards That Assure Quality Higher Education

2006 ◽  
pp. 296-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Oliver ◽  
Anthony Herrington ◽  
Sue Stoney ◽  
Jim Millar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Major Area ◽  
Approach To Learning ◽  
Teaching Activities ◽  
Learning Standards ◽  
Quality Assurance Process ◽  
Assurance Process

Quality assurance is becoming a necessary aspect of many institutions of higher education. Teaching and learning is a major area of scrutiny and requires institutional agreement on the benchmarks and standards by which quality will be determined. This chapter provides a framework for conceptualising the elements of teaching and learning that need to be accounted for in any quality assurance process, with particular focus on teaching activities that reflect an authentic approach to learning.

scholarly journals Language and Quality Assurance: A Case Study Highlighting the Effects of Power, Resistance, and Countertactics in Academic Program Reviews

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-193
Author(s):  
Lynne Bowker
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Institutional Quality ◽  
Academic Program ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Quality Assurance Process ◽  
Assurance Process ◽  
Program Reviews

Quality assurance has been recognized as being important in higher education; however, there are numerous reports that it is challenging to engage faculty members in quality assurance processes in a meaningful way. A frequently cited reason for faculty members’ resistance is that they find the process to be authoritarian and non-collegial. This paper presents a case study which shows that changing the tone of the language used to communicate with academics about the institutional quality assurance process—from a bureaucratic and authoritative tone to a more collegial one—can serve as a countertactic to help mitigate the resistance of faculty members to this process. Using corpus-based techniques, we investigate the language used in documents to communicate with faculty members about quality assurance. We then demonstrate that, following a linguistic revision to introduce a more collegial tone to these communications, faculty members appear to be more willing to engage in the quality assurance process in a meaningful way.

scholarly journals Engaging in Enhancement: Implications of Participatory Approaches in Higher Education Quality Assurance

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 89-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jovan F Groen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Participatory Approaches ◽  
Quality Assurance Process ◽  
Higher Education Quality ◽  
Quality In Higher Education ◽  
Assurance Process ◽  
Internal Stakeholders

Stemming from increased levels of participation and diversity of the student base and from growing scrutiny on the quality of university degrees, governments have begun establishing mechanisms to monitor and support quality in higher education. Faced with administrative quality assurance structures, academics often complain that little is discussed in terms of collaborative effort toward program opportunities, enhancement, and growth and that focus is solely on accountability. This paper examines the viability of participatory approaches, pulled from the field of evaluation, as a way of leading to a more meaningful enhancement-oriented quality assurance process and creating common ground across the differing interests of external and internal stakeholders to quality in higher education.

The Use of Port Performance Indexes in the Transport Economy and the Strengthening of Port Competitiveness

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 387-394
Author(s):  
Astrida Rijkure ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
International Competitiveness ◽  
International Experience ◽  
Multimodal Integration ◽  
Pricing Policies ◽  
Performance Indexes ◽  
Quality Assurance Process ◽  
Assurance Process

Ports in the transport economy have an important role to play in the competitiveness of ports. There is an increasing climate of competition, which causes ports to invest in development and to improve their transport corridors, governance principles and pricing policies in order to strengthen international competitiveness of ports and to ensure that their management practices are in line with the positive international experience. In order to increase the efficiency of transport, to promote the use of environmentally friendly technologies and to improve the international competitiveness of port transport corridors, it is important for ports to determine their own KPI indicators that would be used to assess port performance indicators. As ports are responsible for the quality assurance of port services, even if they do not provide such services, monitoring and assessing of the KPI must be part of the quality assurance process. The objective of this study is to define the port performance-enhancing KPI indexes and to make suggestions for how KPI application in the transport economy can strengthen the international competitiveness of ports and ensure that their management practises international experience. The study’s tasks are to define the appropriate KPI indexes, group them according to interlinked principles, and provide proposals on how to use them to improve the international competitiveness of ports and the main transport system multimodal integration.

One-step models for soft computing techniques. Industrial application to image processing in quality assurance process

2015 ◽  
Vol 81 (5-8) ◽  
pp. 771-778 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascual Noradino Montes Dorantes ◽  
Marco Aurelio Jiménez Gómez ◽  
Gerardo Maximiliano Méndez ◽  
Juan Pablo Nieto González ◽  
Jesús de la Rosa Elizondo
Keyword(s):  
Image Processing ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Soft Computing ◽  
Industrial Application ◽  
Quality Assurance Process ◽  
Soft Computing Techniques ◽  
One Step ◽  
Assurance Process

The impact of a quality assurance process on the frequency and confirmation rate of hysterectomy

1990 ◽  
Vol 163 (2) ◽  
pp. 545-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph C. Gambone ◽  
Robert C. Reiter ◽  
Joel B. Lench ◽  
J. George Moore
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Quality Assurance Process ◽  
Assurance Process ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Linkage of Census and Administrative Data to Quality Assure the 2011 Census for England and Wales

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 453-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louisa Blackwell ◽  
Andrew Charlesworth ◽  
Nicola Jane Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Administrative Data ◽  
Record Linkage ◽  
Population Register ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Quality Assurance Process ◽  
Assurance Process

Abstract The 2011 Census for England and Wales made extensive use of administrative data to quality assure the estimates. This included record linkage between census and administrative data. This article describes the role of record linkage in the quality-assurance process. It outlines the operational challenges that we faced and how we resolved them. Record linkage was confined to a sample within 58 carefully selected local authorities. We found characteristic patterns of under- and overcoverage in the National Health Service Patient Register, which we illustrate here with examples. Our findings may be useful in countries that, like England and Wales, do not have a comprehensive population register to draw on and that need to understand issues of coverage in their routinely collected administrative data and the use of these data to estimate populations.

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