What's NEW!

• Call for Consultant/s to Undertake the Research on Linking Internal and External Quality Assurance
• New items on the website, April, 2010
• The Chiba Principles: A Survey Analysis on the Developments in the APQN Membership (Members Only)
• NAAC to host 2011 APQN Conference and AGM
• Brisbane Communiqué Initiative

Development Grant Facility

The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (The World Bank Group) has agreed to provide a development grant facility (DGF) through the Asia-Pacific Quality Network (APQN) to strengthen its institutional capacity and the technical capacity of APQN member organisations. The activities envisaged are the provision of technical assistance to:

• Conduct workshops to build quality assurance capacity in developing countries/territories;
• Provide external reviewer services to quality assurance agencies in developing countries/territories;
• Provide regional accreditation services to countries/territories without a national accreditation process;
• Establish a regional information clearinghouse on quality assurance for developing countries/territories;
• Support research, policy analysis and services to APQN member organisations;
• Carry out regional staff exchanges to improve information exchange and build capacity of recipient’s quality assurance agencies; and
• Strengthen liaison functions among regional organisations working on quality assurance, such as the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO), the Asian University Network (AUN), and United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Please view the presentation on Capacity Building in Higher Education by Rick Hopper.