New Zealand to host the 2005 Conference of the International Network of Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education
Critical dates
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31 October 2005 |
Call for papers
1000-word version of the paper with abstract (up to 100-150 words) |
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31 January 2005 |
Early bird registration
NZ $900 (thereafter NZ $1200) |
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29 March 2005 |
Pre-Conference Workshops
NZ $ 140 for one workshop; NZ $240 for two workshops |
Preparations for the 2005 conference of the International Network of Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE) in Wellington, New Zealand are well underway. The conference will be held at the James Cook Hotel Grand Chancellor between the evening of Tuesday 29 March and Friday 1 April 2005, with pre-conference workshops on Tuesday 29 March.
The conference theme is Quality, assurance and diversity with four sub-theme tracks on the impacts of diversity, indigenous peoples, quality assurance in transnational issues, and the effectiveness of quality assurance.
Impact on diversity interprets diversity in broad terms - diversity in institutions, in agencies sharing in quality assurance activities, in qualification frameworks, in ethnic, racial or cultural groups served, and in stakeholders such as students faculties, ministries and regional networks. The focus is to be on the way agencies are responsive to known issues of diversity.
Indigenous peoples focuses on quality assurance and equivalence of standards in higher education for indigenous people - a theme of particular significance to the host country, New Zealand, where a Treaty has been signed with indigenous peoples, and of interest to nations represented in the World Indigenous Nationals Higher Education Consortium (WINHEC). The interest will be on the development, implementation and impact of quality assurance methodologies responsive to the higher education experience of indigenous peoples.
Quality assurance in transnational issues recognises the reality of transnational education, the mobility of academic staff, students and professions, and the recognition of qualifications. This track intends to improve the understanding of the contribution quality assurance can make to the internationalisation of teaching, learning and working.
Effectiveness of quality assurance will provide evidence about the effect that external quality assurance processes have had on institutions, with studies of the effect external quality monitoring has had on student learning and on the research process.
The four pre-conference workshops will be on "Fundamentals of quality assurance", "Assuring effective site visits", “The self-evaluation process", and "Evaluating quality assurance agencies".
Go to the Conference web site – http://www.inqaahe2005.co.nz/
Click here for the call for papers, details of the programme and the registration form.
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