INQAAHE Conference 2025 – Tokyo (Japan)

 

INQAAHE 18^th Biennial Conference 2025

The Big Bang Theory:
the Quality Assurance Paradigm Shift 

13-16 May 2025
Tokyo (Japan)
Hosted by the Japan University Accreditation Association (JUAA)

 

Technological advancements, demographic shifts, new models of education delivery, and socio-political dynamics, raise significant questions about the continued adequacy of traditional models of tertiary education delivery, with important implications for ensuring sustainable quality education. This conference is an opportunity for the international tertiary education community to discuss the required shifts in views, practices, and paradigms in quality assurance to empower tertiary education providers to innovate to meet the everchanging technological, societal, demographic, economic, and international landscape.

 

Discussion during the event will be structured around the following sub-themes:

1. Quality Assurance and the Sustainability Agenda. This sub-theme will discuss the role of quality assurance in supporting tertiary education providers in generating sustained transformative impact on society, by contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, beyond SDG 4 on Quality Education (aiming to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. 
2. Quality Assurance and Innovative Learning Pathways. This sub-theme will discuss the role of quality assurance in supporting education and training providers in meeting the growing demand for flexible learning pathways and flexible approaches to teaching, learning, and assessment, whilst continuing to underpin public confidence in the quality and relevance of learning outcomes. 
3. Quality Assurance and Artificial Intelligence. This sub-theme will discuss how the quality assurance community can help the tertiary education sector harness AI to enhance the quality of the learning experience for all students and improve their employability, whilst continuing to secure confidence in the quality and standards of qualifications. An additional aspect to be considered regards the ways AI could be used to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of external quality assurance.  
4. Quality Assurance and Recognition of Qualifications and Credentials. This sub-theme will discuss how the international quality assurance community can support the shift in mindset required for the realisation of that roadmap, which calls for ‘co-creating more open, inclusive, equitable and collaborative higher education systems. This sub-theme brings together many of the issues dealt with in the other three sub-themes, with a specific focus on quality assurance systems fit for purpose for the recognition of qualifications and learning obtained through and less traditional modes of learning. 
   

 

The call for proposals to submit papers, posters and sessions for the event is available as of September 25, 2024. Proposals are welcome until December 20, 2024.