The World Conference on Higher Education Paris - July 2009 The World Conference on Higher Education Paris - July 2009 Theme: The New Dynamics of Higher Education and Research for Societal Change and Development.
This pr esen tati on: Internationalizing Quality Assurance: a New Dynamic for Higher Education in the 21st century. “…quality assurance – and especially the internationalization of quality assurance – was one of the most striking new developments since UNESCO
Judith Eaton held its previous World Conference on Higher Education in 1998.” Inside Accreditation “global leadership in education”
political discourse academic debate Cartagena de Indias Macau
Six Regional Conferences
Bucharest Dakar
Cairo New Delhi Publications Irina Bokova
UNESCO HQ Paris Ministers from small countries…
Dame Pearlette Louisy Governor-General Danilo Turk St. Lucia Dr Rawiyah bint Saud President Al Busaidiyah Slovenia Minister of HE Oman …and large countries
Egypt
China India
France Ms Jill Biden (USA) spokbtke about the role of Community Colleges Researchers and scholars from around the world…
Philip Altbach
Global Trends: Tracking an Academic Revolution Researchers and scholars from around the world…
Philip Altbach Lidia Brito Mala Singh
Hebe Vessuri J.R.de la Fuente Alice Dautry Four of th e Queen’s Higher Education Knights
Sir Graeme Davies
Sir Drummond Bone Sir John Daniel Sir Peter Scott Smiling knight and stern knight! Students were well represented… The Private Sector ppparticipated actively… UNESCO/Microsoft Education Leaders Forum
Microsoft's $50 million commitment is supporting the mission of the new task force and enabling the implementation of critical UNESCO and Microsoft educational resources.
17 Africa was a major focus of the Conference
Peter Okebukola (Nigeria) was the Rapporteur for Africa
Massification
Globally, age participation rates grown from 19% in 2000 to 26% in 2007
150.6 million tertiaryygy students globally in 2007, 53% increase over 2000
Low income countries: from 5% in 2000 to 7% in 2007 Ms Jill Biden (USA) spokbtke about the role of Community Colleges UNIVERSITY RANKINGS BRITAIN’S TOP NINE UNIVERSITIES Quality Rankings of Teaching based on all subject assessments 1995-2004 (Sun day Times Un ivers ity Gu ide 2004) 1 CAMBRIDGE 96% 2 LOUGHBOROUGH 95% 3= LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS 88% 3= YORK 88% 5 THE OPEN UNIVERSITY 87% 6 OXFORD 86% 7 IMPERIAL COLLEGE 82% 8 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON 77% 9 ESSEX 77% Private HE fastest growing sub-sector : 30% enrolments globally
Some countries (Japan, South Korea) enrol 80% of students in PHEIs
Latin America– 50%
Include sub-sector in QA arrangements
Controversial issue but acknowledged as vital Academic Profession
Massifi cati on – facul ty l ess qualifi ed
Use of part-time professors
Private HEIs – moonlighting faculty
Salaries low – brain migration
New Learners: ‘Digital natives Vs digital immigrants’ UNESCO Paris, 5 – 8 July 2009
COMMUNIQUE (8 J ul y 2009)
AtilArticle 21 Assuring quality in higher education requires recognition of the importance of attracting and retaining qualified, talented and committed teaching and research staff. Impact of ICTs in 4 HE Functions: • Research • Administration • Community Service • Teaching/Learning
Arab Oppyen University CROSS BORDER HIGHER EDUCATION
Sri Kapil Sibal Minister of HRD - India
“(The) t ech nol og ica l revo lu tion has a lso opene d the doors of cross border education particularly in dis tance mo de, w ith poss ibilities o f v ir tua l universities providing quality education at reasonable cos ts ” Guidelines for quality provision in cross -border higher education UNESCO and OECD
Number of tertiary students studying abroad, 1999 and 2007
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The provision of tertiary education is dominated by six host countries: USA (21%), U.K. (13%), France (10%),Source: Global Education Digest 2009 Germany (8%), Australia (8%) and Japan (5%) Skilled Migrants
20 million with tertiary education living in OECD countries in 2000, up f rom 12 milli on in 1990
6 out of 10 higgyqhly qualified migrants in OECD countries in 2000 originate from developing countries
33% - 55 % of skilled migrants fAlBdiGhfrom Angola, Burundi, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Tanzania live in OECD countries Quality Assurance with a diversity of providers
Dr Rawiyah bint An A ccredit ati on Agency Saud Al for the Gulf States Busaidiyah Minister of HE Oman
Cartagena de Indias Dakar Latin America and Africa the Caribbean •Convergence of Regional •Strengggthening national and approaches human and subregional QA to institutional capacity networks Quality •Linking sub-regional •QA of HE and Assurance and regional Research networks •Involvement of academics Cairo Macau Arab States Asia & Pacific •Introduce QAA into 50% of HEIs over 10 Regional •Internationally years approaches to accepted •Cover both public & accreditation private Quality standards Assurance •Towards an itintegra tdted gl lblobal higher education INTERNATIONALIZING QA
“The globalisation of higher education has added newer challenges in terms of quality assurance systems (…) These challenges can be largely addressed by increased regional and international collaboration.(…) Quality Assurance Systems (…) should encompass not merely conventional programmes in higher education but also the borderless, private and continuing education.” UNESCO’s work
GLOBAL OUTREACH THROUGH:
UNESCO Global Forum on QA, Accreditation and the Recognition of Qualification (2002; 2004; 2007) UNESCO’s 6 recognition conventions UNESCO-World Bank Global Initiative GIQAC Web Portal on HEIs: country information
1. Institutions recognized by competent authorities
2. Higher education programmes recognized by competent authorities
3. Information for students planning to study in the country
4. Information on the higher education system
5. Foreign credential assessment and recognition
6. Information on financial assistance opportunities
7. Cross-border higher education
8. National Information Centre
9. Other information sources
10. Definition of key terms
WCHE Communiqué “things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near” e. e. cummings WCHE Communiqué
Quality Assurance Which Way Forward?
Giacometti sculpture – UNESCO Paris “global leadership in education”
political discourse academic debate Thank you For moreinformation , the WCHE 2009 website: http://www.unesco.org/en/wche2009/
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