Title: Capacity Building in Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Higher Education in the Asia Pacific Reg
1Capacity Building in Quality Assurance and
Accreditation in Higher Education in the Asia
Pacific Region
- M. K. Tadjudin
- Chair
- National Accreditation Board for Higher
Education, Indonesia
2Presentation outline
- Quality assurance in higher education
- Approaches to quality assurance in higher
education - Capacity building steps to quality assurance in
higher education - Case study Indonesia
3Quality is a distinguishing characteristic
guiding students and higher education
institutions
4Quality assurance in higher education has become
not only a national issue but also a global one.
5Quality assurance is the basis of a well
functioning education system
6Drivers of quality in HE
- Funding Competing for diminishing funds
- Stakeholders demands
- Market forces
7Approaches to quality (1)
- The different educational systems and the
different stages of maturity of the institutions
and systems mean there different approaches to QA
- Some systems use more than one approach
8Approaches to quality (2)
- AUDIT A check on an organizations explicit or
implicit claims about itself --gt Are your
processes effective ? - ASSESSMENT An evaluation that results in a grade
--gt How good are your outputs ? - ACCREDITATION Evaluation whether an institution
qualifies for a certain status --gt Are you fit to
be approved ?
9Approaches to quality (3)
Accreditation
Audit
Assessment
10Approaches to quality (4)
- All these processes can be carried out internally
by the institution themselves or by an external
body - Self-assessment and self-accreditation would
normally not be seen as credible - However an institution could self-assess or
self-accredit, so that the external process
becomes a validation (or rebuttal) audit of the
institutions own conclusions
11Capacity building steps
- Which approach ?
- Which methodology ?
12Determinants
- Educational system
- Maturity of the HE system
13Case study Indonesia
14Indonesian tertiary educations qualifications
framework
15Maturity of Indonesian HE system
- Immature system
- Wide variety in stage of development of
institutions and programs - Wide variety of quality within programs in
different institutions - Wide variety quality between programs within
institutions
16Approach and methodology ?
- Establishment of the National Accreditation Board
for Higher Education - Program accreditation
- Ranking of results
17Problems constraints
- Huge number of programs
- Limited number of experts
- Limited number of reviewers
- Limited funding
18Accreditation results of Diploma (D-3) programs
(25 Aug 2004)
19Accreditation results of S-1 programs (25 Aug
2004)
20Table 3 S-2 2001 - 2002
21Accreditation results of S-2 programs (Jan 2003 -
Aug 2004).
22Study to change from program accreditation to
institutional accreditation
23Terima Kasih