All societies are undergoing rapid and deep changes. These changes have created and widened the gaps between classes, communities, races...

Stakeholder engagement is an universally enduring principle or self evident truth in accreditation. This engagement makes the institution...

A couple years ago, a friend from QQI, Ireland, asked whether a killer App could disrupt the QA industry as we know it. Hm.., it got me...

Almost without exception national qualification frameworks and/or programme standards require ethics and professionalism to be among the...

Student-staff ratio is dear to quality assurance agencies. It is countable proxy for quality of teaching and learning. University...

Faculties and departments are, in the main, neatly organised along traditional disciplinary lines. The body of knowledge expected at...

Higher education is facing intense and disruptive changes. Governments are ramping up the pressure by letting in new operators. Many new...

The idea of unbundling the degrees is not new. Universities shunned the idea of taking apart the degree and selling it in parts. It is...

In many parts of the world, higher education institutions (HEIs) loathe their national accreditors and prefer the international quality...

I was asked in a session with a private university about how seriously should they treat the vision and mission in planning programmes....

Unbeknown to most in the Malaysian universities, there is a plagiarism case heard and decided in the High Court. This is a case of a...

Plagiarism is on the rise everywhere. Just Google it. Australian authorities even did some ethical hacking to determine the actual scale...

We have the IR 4.0, we have education 4.0 and we have also TVET 4.0. Yet others are already thinking of Education 5.0. Japan is on to...

Many public and private universities from Malaysia are actively spreading their wings abroad to as far as Africa to offset declining...

The recent meeting of EU education ministers on the Bologna Declarations urged that quality assurance assessment be enhancement oriented....

The two things which are sacred to quality assurance agencies are self review reports and site visits. The value of these two tools is...

Th convocation ceremony has a special place in our rite of passage. In US, it is a fun party. In UK it is tradition filled. In the east,...