Originally published as Quality Assurance in Education, Volume 16, Issue 2
ISBN: 0968-4883
Edited by: Niaz Ahmed
Quality assurance in education has become an international issue and is receiving an ever increasing focus from all stakeholders. It becomes increasingly important to look into tools and techniques for the effective implementation of the quality assurance systems adopted by quality conscious educational institutions. The articles and book reviews in this e-book emphasise these aspects. These provide thought-provoking ideas on how state and private universities in developing nations can improve their environment for learning and are useful reading for people who wish to know more about the governance and the roles of universities in the case study countries. Thus this e-book is focused on best practices and case studies for improving the quality of education based on the experience/case studies/findings reported by the researchers and practitioners.
Contents:
The phases and paradoxes of educational quality assurance: The case of the Singapore education system
Pak Tee Ng
The purpose of this paper is to highlight three important insights into educational quality assurance, using Singapore as a case study. It is useful to policy makers and practitioners to understand the phases and paradoxes in their educational quality assurance journey so that they may recognise and manage better the complex dynamics of quality assurance in education.
Understanding quality assurance: a cross country case study
Fion Choon Boey Lim
The purpose of this paper is to examine the level of understanding between an Australian university and its offshore partner institution, on quality assurance. It attempts to highlight the dynamics of quality assurance policy implementation within and across institutions for an offshore degree.
Institutionalisation in a newly created private university
Peter Hodson, Michael Connolly, Said Younes
The purpose of this paper is to examine the introduction of a quality assurance system in a new, private university in Syria, and considers the extent to which the theoretical model based on institutional theory and isomorphism is reflected in practice.
School supervision and evaluation in China: the Shanghai perspective
John Chi-kin Lee, Daoyong Ding, Huan Song
The purpose of this paper is to discuss recent developments in school developmental supervisory evaluation in the Pudong New Area of Shanghai in the Chinese Mainland.
Standards to assure quality in tertiary education: the case of Tanzania
Timothy Manyaga
The purpose of this paper is to provide information on development of standards in Tanzania which may be of help to training providers in other countries as they seek to improve the quality and standards of their provision.
The impact of quality assurance measures on student services at the Japanese and Thai private universities
David T. Gamage, Jaratdao Suwanabroma, Takeyuki Ueyama, Sekio Hada, Etsuo Sekikawa
The purpose of the paper is to ascertain students' perceptions on quality of services provided by private universities in Thailand and Japan and how these affected decisions selecting a university. A comparative study aims to focus on how cultural and economic factors affected their decisions.
About Quality Assurance in Education
Quality Assurance in Education is a journal which is committed to a critical examination of quality and related issues in education. It devotes itself to the dissemination of best practice on the management of change and improvement in the higher education. It invites insights into the perceptions and opinions of quality in education of a number of stakeholders to gain a balanced view.
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