INQAAHE Forum 2022
Sustainable Quality Assurance: Optimizing Synergies between Artificial and Human Intelligence
June 6, 2022 at 13:00 Mexico City time
Don't miss the chance to have a first-hand exposure to dealing with international quality hallmarks to adequately respond to an ever-increasing diversification of tertiary education and its quality assurance, while ensuring relevance and quality in provisions, also taking into account provisions of UNESCO Global Convention on Higher Education.
Summary:
The workshop on the International Quality Hallmarks aims to build on the capacity of the participants to revise their approaches to quality assurance to enhance relevance and quality of their services in response to an ever-increasing diversification of tertiary education and its quality assurance. It endeavors to establish the necessary grounds for the participants to be better prepared to adequately respond to the current challenges and disruptions and use them as opportunities for progress and effectiveness. In particular, the workshop will ensure newer insights for both internal and external quality assurance professionals in interpretation of best international practices, principles, standards and guidelines in quality assurance, support enhancement of internal quality assurance systems for QA providers as well as lay out firm grounds for potential external reviews against the international quality hallmarks. It endeavors to establish the necessary grounds for the participants to be better prepared to adequately respond to the current challenges and disruptions and use them as opportunities for progress and effectiveness. Especially in times when the UNESCO Global Convention on Higher Education is being ratified by many countries.
Facilitated by:
Susanna Karakhanyan
Currently, Dr. Karakhanyan is employed by the Abu Dhabi Government as Higher Education Policy & Regulation Director at the Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge in the United Arab Emirates. She also led until 2021 the major global network of tertiary education quality assurance providers as President of INQAAHE, which brings together more than 350 members worldwide. She consults governments on policymaking, governance as well as external and internal QA systems in a diversity of contexts globally.
Dr. Karakhanyan’s expertise evolves around tertiary education in general and policymaking, governance and quality assurance in particular. Her expertise has been widely sought after by a diversity of systems and cultures. She authors and delivers capacity building events and external reviews of governance structures, legal frameworks and QA systems worldwide. She has authored, initiated and has been implementing a variety of projects under the auspices of the Council of Europe, UNESCO, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, Open Society Institute, IREX, to name some. All the projects address higher education reforms in general and diversity of aspects in legal frameworks, governance and quality assurance, in particular. Her service has been acknowledged in a diversity of contexts and systems globally.
Dr. Karakhanyan holds M.S.Ed in Educational Administration/Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania, the USA and PhD in Social Sciences from Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Her research interests focus around higher education governance and administration, reforms, policymaking, policy diffusion and transfer, and external and internal quality assurance. Her research background has helped her tremendously in the establishment of new and evaluation/review of existing tertiary education systems, including, but not limited to external and internal (both quality assurance agencies and higher education institutions) quality assurance systems in a diversity of contexts at the global level.
INQAAHE Forum 2022 is sponsored by uPlanner (silver category), SUMADI (silver category) and Santander (gold category).
