Quality Assurance
What is quality assurance?
Quality assurance is an ongoing process by which the quality of a higher education system, institution, or programme is assessed by the competent authority or authorities to ensure stakeholders that acceptable educational standards are continuously maintained and enhanced (Global Convention, 2019).
As the world’s most mobile region, the comparability, recognition, and quality assurance of qualifications have become a growing area of concern, particularly in countries where administrative systems are weak.
What is APNNIC’s role in quality assurance?
As the regional network of national information centres supporting academic recognition in the Asia-Pacific, APNNIC builds on quality assurance mechanisms and shares reliable information about higher education institutions and systems, study programs, and degrees. At every level, APNNIC respects each country’s right to create a system for qualifications and the autonomy of its institutions.
To ensure students are treated fairly, each country that ratifies the Tokyo Convention agrees to provide adequate information on any institution belonging to its higher education system and on its quality assurance system. This enables other recognition authorities to determine whether the quality of the qualifications issued by these institutions justifies recognition.
Building local and regional capacity for a living quality culture in higher education in the Asia-Pacific region.
Learn more
- Asia-Pacific Regional Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications in Higher Education (Tokyo Convention)
- Global Convention on Recognition
- Guidelines on Developing and Strengthening Qualifications Frameworks in Asia and the Pacific: Building a Culture of Shared Responsibility (UNESCO, 2018)
- Developing Holistic Indicators to Promote the Internationalization of Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific (UNESCO, 2018)
- Guidelines on Implementing Qualifications Frameworks in Asia and the Pacific at Subject Level: Educational Studies and Cultural Heritage Management (UNESCO, 2020)
