Launched by UNESCO in the 2000s and now led by INQAAHE, Global Trends in Tertiary Education Quality Assurance has become a flagship international project on quality assurance in tertiary education. Published every five years, it maps global and regional developments in both internal and external QA, aiming to capture the diversity of models with coherence and comparability.

I GLOBAL STUDY,
released by Brill|Sense in 2020, set the foundation:

CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS
FOR THE 1ST GLOBAL TRENDS:
Susanna Karakhanyan

(Editor and Founding Author)

Bjøn Stensaker

(Editor and Author)

  • Aboul-Ela, Badr
  • Alhamad, Bassam
  • Alsindi, Tariq
  • Ayoo, Philip
  • Badrawi, Nadia
  • Baer, Linda L.
  • Blanco, Christian
  • Bradshaw, Michael
  • Brunton, Ronald
  • Hou, Angela Yung Chi
  • Ismailova, Lemka
  • Jun, Guo
  • Justiniano, Dewin
  • Kelo, Maria
  • Kuria, Mike
  • Lennon, Mary Catharine
  • Lu, Grace
  • Lynch, Orla
  • Matthews, Leah
  • Prado, Milena
  • Ramírez, Anely
  • Scharager, Judith
  • Soboleva, Erika
  • Stensaker, Bjørn
  • Tamrat, Wondwosen
  • Zhang, Jianxin
authors

II Global Study, to be published in 2025

Builds on those findings with an expanded methodology, exploring concepts of efficiency, relevance, and transformative power in the context of technological change and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS
FOR THE II GLOBAL TRENDS:
Susanna Karakhanyan

(Editor and Founding Author)

Bjøn Stensaker

(Editor and Author)

  • Aboul El Safa, Magda
  • Al-Rashdi, Rabie'e
  • Bakar, Hazman Shah Abdullah
  • Bartet, Renato
  • Basaruddin, T. Chan
  • Benstaali, Baghdad
  • Bukhari, Asiyah
  • Casimir, Sean Manley
  • Chen, Ying
  • Claville, Michelle
  • De Labastida, Eva Fernandez
  • De Vincenzi, Ariana
  • Demas, Sylvia
  • Dodikovic-Jurkovic, Vesna
  • Fang Yu Lin, Arianna
  • Farizano, Sofia
  • Garcia, Fernando Leon
  • Gover, Anna
  • Guaglianone, Ariadna
  • Hou, Angela Yung Chi
  • Hong-Yi Tao, Christopher
  • Kadhila, Ngepathimo
  • Kelo, Maria
  • Kinser, Kevin
  • Lache, Simona
  • Lakatos, Peter Levente
  • Lennon, Mary Catharine
  • Matthews, Leah
  • Prades, Anna
  • Pedró, Francesc
  • Strah, Martin
  • Trefftz, Helmuth
  • Valeikiene, Aurelija
  • Vibert, Joseph
  • Zhang, Jianxin
authors

Over 20 QA networks and 80 experts from seven regions contributed,
ensuring that regional perspectives and cultural specificities inform global insights:

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