The paper describes the work of the UK Quality Assurance Agency’s (QAA) International Quality Reviews (IQR) in universities within West Africa. This work was carried out in support of the World Bank’s capacity building project ‘Africa Higher Education Centres of Excellence (ACE)’. Part of the ACE project supplies funding to institutions to support and encourage them to seek external international accreditation.
Arising from a recently expanded legislative remit, QQI is currently developing a new quality mark that will be awarded to higher education providers (both public and independent/private), and providers of English language education, who demonstrate their compliance with statutory codes of practice for the provision of their programmes to international learners.
Transnational education (TNE, also cross-border higher education) is huge business globally, and is growing.
There are currently 44 European Universities alliances, which are all setting up their internal QA systems.
This paper will reflect on internationalisation in the context of Ireland’s International Education Mark from the perspective of Trinity College Dublin.
"There is no doubt that education plays a fundamental role in the development of nations”. (ASG-QA, p.9).
A literature review shows that Indonesia is focusing on the internationalization of higher education with a concentration on academic aspects such as curricula, teaching methods and academic exchange. At the same time, there are still inhibiting factors that Indonesian HEIs face.
The YUFE Alliance unites universities from ten European countries with diverse academic traditions and practices. These institutions share common values aligned with the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and adhere to quality assurance (QA) systems based on the European Standards and Guidelines (ESG).
Although internationalisation has been on the agenda in the Finnish higher education sector for years, there are a number of recent national efforts in the form of policies, initiatives and funding to boost the internationalisation of Finnish higher education institutions.
QQI is establishing a new statutory scheme to provide voluntary, regulated access to the National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) to a new type of awarding body, named Listed Awarding Bodies (LABs).