From 27 February to 1 March 2017 INQAAHE Biennial Conference BETWEEN COLLABORATION & COMPETITION: THE PROMISES & CHALLENGES FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION was held in Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain.

Presentations are available below.

Pre-Conference Workshops

• Workshop 1. Internal & External Quality assurance for QA agencies
• Workshop 2. The role of National Qualification Frameworks NQFs in quality assurance and the implications of self-certification for international recognition
• Workshop 3. Training reviewers for external quality assurance of HEIs (higher education institutions) and their programmes
• Workshop 4.  Assessment of learning outcomes and the concept of value added score

Presentations

Session 1: Quality assurance for competitive advantage in the markets for national and international students

• Paper 2 Quality label- a Chinese-French joint initiative to promote quality of cross-border education
• Paper 3 Challenges facing universities to satisfy various national and international quality assurance systems
• Paper 5 Opportunities and Challenges in a Competitive Student Market – Case Study from Bahrain Polytechnic
• Paper 6 Cross-border quality assurance: The experience of (HKCAAVQ)
• Paper 7 Assessment of Education Colleges Learning Outcomes in Abu Dhabi
• Paper 8 Quality Regulation of International Branch Campuses in Asian Nations Divergence or Convergence
• Paper 9 Enhancing Internal Quality Assurance of Internationalization by Adopting Self-Accreditation Policy
• Paper 10 Can Overseas Accreditation Agencies be Seen as a Help or a Hindrance for the Local Quality Assurance Mechanism

Session 2: Quality assurance breaking down barriers for students and providers

• Paper 1 Towards ultimate enhancement of the involvement of students, alumni and employers
• Paper 3 Joint trainings as a bridge of cooperation for agencies and institutions
• Paper 5 Analysing The Quality Assurance in Research Planning and Management of Higher Educational Institutions in Oman
• Paper 6 Flowering in the Desert Growing Employability, Embedding Quality at Bahrain Polytechnic
• Paper 10 Cross-Border Student Mobility a case study of Aga Khan University
• Paper 11 Inter-agency cooperation in the quality assurance of transnational Education challenges and opportunities
• Paper 12 From National to International The Changing Role of QA Agency from the HEEACTs Experiences

Session 3: Are we closer to a global QA and qualifications framework?

• Paper 1 International Quality Collaboration between Sending and Receiving Countries of Higher Education Institutions
• Paper 2 The role of QA agencies in outbound TNE, the Austrian approach
• Paper 3 Can QA and Culture-Norms Co-Exist
• Paper 5 Arab Qualifications Framework (AQF) ANQAHE Model
• Paper 6 A Blueprint for a Global Qualifications Framework
• Paper 10 Public university reform the future of quality assurance in Bahrain

Session 4: The Quality Assurance agenda for the next 25 years

• Paper 2 Building Capacity for QA in a Profession where Culture Matters an Examination
• Paper 3 Challenges for the next decades for quality assurance agencies and higher education institutions in the GCC
• Paper 4 Aligning the Quality Assurance of Higher Education with the Education for Sustainability Requirements
• Paper 5 Questioning the Authenticity of Quality Assurance Frameworks for teaching and learning a case study from East Africa
• Paper 7 Improving University Governance through External Evaluation
• Paper 8 Towards a Taxonomy of Quality Assurance Systems
• Paper 9 Quantity Educational Quality and a Global Framework Three Inevitable Innovations
• Paper 10 The Quality Assurance agenda for the next 25 years
• Paper 11 Challenges of the Quality Assurance Agenda in India for the next 25 years