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QUALITY ASSURANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION

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Quality Assurance in Higher Education

A study of developing countries

DAVID LIM
Griffith University

First published 2001 by Ashgate Publishing

Reissued 2018 by Routledge

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Copyright David Lim 2001

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ISBN 13: 978-1-138-63568-5 (hbk)

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Contents

I am a development economist by training and, until the writing of this book, all my research has been on the theoretical and applied aspects of that sub-discipline of economics, especially as they relate to Malaysia and other countries in Southeast Asia. Hence a word of explanation is needed for this venture in quality assurance, even though it is about its implementation in universities in developing countries.

I served as the Dean of the Faculty of Asian and International Studies at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, over the period 198591, and had many responsibilities dealing implicitly with issues of quality assurance. However, I only became formally involved in quality assurance in higher education when I was made in late 1994 the Universitys Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Quality Advancement). Griffith was the first university in Australia to have a senior management position dedicated to quality assurance and I was the second person appointed to the post. Australian universities were then in the middle of a quality cycle.

After two years in the rarified atmosphere of the Vice-Chancellors Office, I spent several months in 1996 in Papua New Guinea (PNG), designing a national qualifications and accreditation framework, as well as a quality assurance system for its higher education sector. I was part of a large consultancy team put together by the International Development Program Education Australia (IDP) of the Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee, and funded by the Asian Development Bank. Our task was to draw up plans to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the higher education sector of PNG. As part of the same project, I went back for a further period in 1997 to design a staff appraisal and development programme for the university sector.

Later in 1997 I spent a few weeks in Mauritius, as the leader of a small team redesigning a staff development programme drawn up for the university sector by the World Bank. We were working for IDP but funded by the World Bank.

Before these projects in PNG and Mauritius, I was involved in 1992, again as a member of an IDP team with funds from the Asian Development Bank, in the Outer Islands Universities Project in Indonesia. This was a project to improve the ability of a number of remote universities to play a more effective role in the social and economic development of Indonesia. I was assigned three tasks. The first was to identify the current and future patterns of economic development in the provinces where the universities are located. The second was to assess the ability of those universities to facilitate the development of the provinces and the third, to recommend changes in the academic programmes of the universities to enable them to play a more effective role in development. Though the project was not designed as a quality assurance one, there were elements of it that would sit comfortably in such a project.

So much for my introduction to quality assurance. A moments thought will show that there is a strong, though not obvious, link between quality assurance in higher education and economic development. The economic development of rich and poor countries alike depends importantly on the availability of a skilled and committed labour force. The higher education sector can provide the required generic and specialised skills and, to a certain extent, the discipline. The implementation of quality assurance in the sector can do much to increase its effectiveness and therefore its contribution to development.

I would like to thank Roy Webb, the Vice-Chancellor of Griffith University, who gave me the opportunity to do something different, with my appointment as the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Quality Advancement) at Griffith. I am also indebted to IDP for sending me off to Indonesia, PNG and Mauritius on projects dealing explicitly or implicitly with quality assurance.

I would also like to thank Katherine Hodkinson of Ashgate for putting up with delays in correspondence and the submission of the manuscript. As always, Robyn White produced the camera-ready copy of the manuscript with minimum fuss and maximum efficiency and cheer.

David Lim

Faculty of International Business and Politics

Griffith University

Brisbane, Queensland

Australia 4111

January 2001

AQAC	Accreditation and Quality Advancement Committee
CEQ	Course Experience Questionnaire
CHE	Commission for Higher Education
CNAA	Council for National Academic Awards
CQAHE	Committee for Quality Assurance in Higher Education
CTEC	Commonwealth Tertiary Education Committee
DENI	Department of Education for Northern Ireland
EFTS	Equivalent full-time student
GDS	Graduate Destination Survey
GNP	Gross National Product
HEFCE	Higher Education Funding Council for England
HEFCW	Higher Education Funding Council for Wales
HEQC	Higher Education Quality Council
MCEETYA	Ministerial Council for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs
MJPC	Multilateral Joint Planning Committee
PCFC	Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council
PNG	Papua New Guinea
PNGUT	Papua New Guinea University of Technology

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