Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13538322.2022.2100598
P. Gibbs, I. Grdzelidze, G. Tavadze
This issue offers insights into how the south Caucasus countries of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia as different sovereign nations with their distinctive cultures and ideologies share a geo-political commonality of recent Soviet occupation with 20% of Georgia territory under occupation. They share a desire to develop, modernise and operate an effective higher education system which, through creativity, ingenuity and imagination supports their educational, cultural and economic ambitions. To that end they all joined the Bologna Process at the Bergen Ministerial Conference in 2005 and have undertaken reforms of their post-colonial futures, intended to improve the quality of higher education within their country and provide opportunities for students and academics’ mobility, improvement in teaching and learning r egimes, the creation of quality assurance instruments that provide direction and focus to internal and external quality assessments and accreditation and have begun to focus on their research infrastructures. As members of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), each country has had to address its own higher education sector in order to formally comply with the agreement necessities, which critically required independent quality assurance bodies that had responsibility for programme or institutional accreditation. The consequences for each are different and details of how each has responded cannot be fully covered in this selection of papers in this special issue. What has been achieved, is a representation of responses that shine a light on the way the South Caucasus has answered the requirements for EHEA membership. It acts as a catalyst to discussion on the future direction of higher education in the region, including the furthering of large-scale alteration of national systems to include private institutions alongside nation-supported academies. Each of the articles in this special issue offers comments upon progress at a country level, reflecting action at either the strategic systematic level or at the institutional tactical levels. The articles emerged from a discussion following a conference on higher education held in Tbilisi in 2021, organised jointly by the East European and Tbilisi State universities. Each paper is introduced and contextualised under three headings:
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Pub Date : 2022-12-21DOI: 10.1080/13538322.2022.2153642
L. Harvey
1. In your experience, has the quality of higher education improved or deteriorated during the time you have been researching higher education? (Please give reasons for your answer.) 2. Do you think that students have a better or a worse learning experience now than when you first started researching higher education? (Please give reasons for your answer.) 3. To what extent have quality assurance proctesses affected the quality of higher education?
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Pub Date : 2022-12-20DOI: 10.1080/13538322.2022.2127165
M. Romanowski, Ibrahim M. Karkouti
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Pub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1080/13538322.2022.2156027
P. Gibbs
Abstract This article considers the conception of transdisciplinarity as a knowledge distinct from disciplinary knowledge modes and especially drawing a distinction with interdisciplinarity. Such critical analysis assists in the recognition of the importance and value of transdisciplinarity within the ecology of knowledge in the complex systems of university education. Using emergence as a framework, the paper explores how emergent properties are generated and assist in problem solving, creating an ethos for the university and how a transdisciplinary currere can be settled in such a space.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-11DOI: 10.1080/13538322.2022.2132702
S. Soleimani, M. Jaeger, Alanoud Faheiman, A. Alaqqad
This study determines the critical success factors for students and academic staff when applying and evaluating online delivery methods in colleges and universities in Kuwait. The recently implemented eLearning systems and methods in the country, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, are evaluated and the perception of the eLearning system is gauged. Targeted surveys are distributed to a representative sample of undergraduate engineering students and academic staff. The following critical success factors are considered: benefits of the eLearning system, educational system quality, information quality, instructor quality, learner quality, service quality and technical system quality. Results show that there is a correlation between the perceptions of students and academic staff, particularly regarding instructor quality, information quality and benefits of the eLearning system. Both groups of respondents agreed on the high importance of instructor quality and the low importance of benefits. [ FROM AUTHOR]
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Pub Date : 2022-10-31DOI: 10.1080/13538322.2022.2123266
Anca Greere, F. Crozier
This article considers post-pandemic implications for higher education institutions and explores the steps required to continue with online delivery, where desirable. Strategic considerations are outlined and priorities for development analysed to ensure higher education institutions can align, in a post-pandemic future, with quality assurance expectations for online education, especially where they are new to the online environment. An analysis of the Georgian higher education context exhibited highly transferable findings as it identified the specificities of the emergency response, highlighted experiences relevant to the transition phase and recommended criteria and guidelines to support the quality assurance of post-pandemic online education. While the Georgian pandemic experience has been as challenging as in other parts of the world, the fact that the whole sector was legally denied the opportunity to offer online education before COVID-19 makes for interesting analysis and confirms that post-pandemic online higher education development is as much an institutional decision as it is a systemic leap. [ FROM AUTHOR]
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Pub Date : 2022-10-19DOI: 10.1080/13538322.2022.2121469
Olof Hallonsten
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Pub Date : 2022-10-18DOI: 10.1080/13538322.2022.2124587
James Thompson, D. Houston
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Pub Date : 2022-10-17DOI: 10.1080/13538322.2022.2124585
W. D. Nubia, S. Blignaut
{"title":"Access to doctoral education in an era of diverse modes of knowledge production: a regulatory understanding of quality assurance","authors":"W. D. Nubia, S. Blignaut","doi":"10.1080/13538322.2022.2124585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13538322.2022.2124585","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46354,"journal":{"name":"Quality in Higher Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82174877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-10DOI: 10.1080/13538322.2022.2088564
Nancy Palacios Mena, John Fredy Ariza Bulla
Abstract This article studies the relationship between the socioeconomic conditions of higher education students in Colombia and their academic performance during the pandemic. The household’s socioeconomic conditions are approximated by the education level of the parents, their occupation and the possession of assets. A multiple regression model tests the effect of these variables on academic performance before and during the pandemic. Results suggest that before the pandemic, the mother’s graduate education and household technology assets showed a positive impact on test score. Mixed effects of parents’ occupations by gender were also found. During the pandemic, the effect of the mother’s education remained the same, and the effect of technological assets, in-person education and high-quality accredited establishment increased.
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