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The purpose of this study was to identify the academic quality assurance practices that should be employed to attain teaching excellence at selected private higher education institutions in the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The study adopted a qualitative interpretive research design and utilized one-to-one, in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 12 participants. The sample was purposefully selected and comprised six faculty members, four program directors, one senior academic staff member, and one junior non-academic administrator, from three private higher education institutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Findings revealed four categories of practices: a) Must-keep practices, b) Must-modify practices, c) Must-add practices, and d) Must-avoid practices. Some of the practices relating to quality assurance that the study identified are maintaining important evaluation-related practices while providing feedback for improvement, closing the loop, educating all employees about and increasing their reengagement in quality assurance practice, and reducing paperwork and work duplication. This study concludes by recommending that higher education institutions employ the strategies discussed in the findings to promote teaching creativity and to improve the quality of teaching and learning, to achieve teaching excellence. https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.20.11.13

En el presente ensayo se aborda la temática sobre la importancia de adquirir habilidades lingüísticas de comunicación como leer, hablar, escribir y comprender un segundo idioma como el inglés, mandarín o francés entre otros además del nativo. Lo anterior con el pleno convencimiento de que el estudiante o docente universitario del siglo XXI sea un individuo capaz de generar cierta competencia laboral que termina reflejándose en la mejora continua de la calidad académica universitaria. Así como también, se intenta defender de manera constante que alcanzar un nivel de proficiencia en un idioma extranjero representa la probabilidad de una mejora sustancial del perfil profesional del estudiante y docente universitario que al final se espera se vea reflejado en una mejor oferta laboral. Es así como la educación superior de hoy día asume tantos retos dentro de su labor incesante de generar egresados que salgan al mundo real con aportes viables y significativos que impulsen sustancialmente al desarrollo económico y cultural de nuestra sociedad. Todo lo anterior basado en apuntar la mirada al estudio y la enseñanza de los idiomas desde una perspectiva multicultural pero universal. This essay addresses the issue of the importance of acquiring linguistic communication skills such as reading, speaking, writing, and understanding a second language such as English, Mandarin, or French, among others, in addition to the native language. The foregoing is with the full conviction that the student or university professor of the XXI century is an individual capable of generating a certain job competence that ends up being reflected in the continuous improvement of university academic quality. As well as, it is constantly tried to defend that reaching a level of proficiency in a foreign language represents the probability of a substantial improvement in the professional profile of the student and university teacher. Which in the end is expected to be reflected in a better job offer. This is how today's higher education assumes so many challenges within its incessant work of generating graduates who go out into the real world with viable and significant contributions that substantially promote the economic and cultural development of our society. All of the above is based on looking at the study and teaching of languages from a multicultural but universal perspective. Especialización

The concepts of academic quality and social responsibility in post-secondary organizations are spacious yet becoming more intertwined. With stated organizational values grounded in excellence and diversity, this Organizational Improvement Plan (OIP) seeks to intersect a quality management framework with the equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) efforts at a multi-campus college in Atlantic Canada. Specifically, the problem of practice I aim to resolve is how a shared vision of academic quality may be created through an added lens of social responsibility among the academic leadership team. In order to achieve a shared vision of academic quality, there are two main goals central to this OIP: examine the newly developed APAE framework piloted through an international partner through a lens of local community and examine our quality standards through an EDI lens. Organizational learning theory provides insights into understanding how knowledge is created and used within the organization to accomplish these goals. Central to this initiative is a trianalogous leadership framework grounded in servant, transformational, and collective leadership ideologies used to guide the leadership team in a series of Academic Quality Leadership Lessons through a community of practice model. This process is supported by an appreciative inquiry modality which draws upon the strengths of current quality management initiatives and aims to bring about positive change by enhancing the leadership team’s knowledge of socially responsible quality management practices.

Al-Qarawiyyin University's independence in terms of finances had been a significant and influential factor in making it possible for the university to maintain its high quality. Therefore, this paper aims to examine and analyse the financial sources for the development and operation of this university. It reviews and analyses historical data through relevant literature and documents. Waqf played a significant role in providing financial assistance to the university's communities and in strengthening its academic quality. There were four significant types of waqf sources which were the individual fund, the collective waqf fund, the Sultan fund and the alumni fund along with different other types of charities, i.e. sadaqah. This article adds new knowledge by examining the financing experiences of the world's oldest university. It is expected that the instance of Al-Qarawiyyin University may contribute to finding out a solution for the funding crises in contemporary institutions. This review is hoped to constitute a significant contribution to scholarship in general and act as a suggestion for solving the contemporary funding crisis of higher educational institutions. Keywords: Al-Qarawiyyin University, financing higher education, Morocco, Waqf. Cite as: Hoque, M. N., & Abdullah, M. F. (2021). The world's oldest university and its financing experience: A study on Al-Qarawiyyin University (859-990). Journal of Nusantara Studies, 6(1), 24-41. http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/jonus.vol6iss1pp24-41

Students are an important asset in the world of education also an institution and therefore also need to pay attention to students' graduation rates on time. The ups and downs of the percentage of students' abilities in classroom learning is one important element for assessing university accreditation. Therefore, it is necessary to monitor and evaluate teaching and learning activities using the KNN Algorithm classification. By processing student complaints data and seeing the results of previous learning can obtain important things for higher education needs. In predicting graduation rates based on complaints, this study uses the K-Nearest Neighbor classification algorithm by grouping data k = 1, k = 2, k = 3 with the smallest value possible. In experiments using the KNN method the results were clearly visible and showed quite good accuracy. From the experiment it was concluded that if there were fewer complaints from one student it could minimize the level of student non-graduates at the university and ultimately produce good accreditation.

Accurate prediction and early identification of student at-risk of attrition are of high concern for higher educational institutions (HEIs). It is of a great importance not only to the students but also to the educational administrators and the institutions in the areas of improving academic quality and efficient utilisation of the available resources for effective intervention. However, despite the different frameworks and various models that researchers have used across institutions for predicting performance, only negligible success has been recorded in terms of accuracy, efficiency and reduction of student attrition. This has been attributed to the inadequate and selective use of variables for the predictive models. This paper presents a multi-dimensional and an integrated system framework that involves considerable learners' input and engagement in predicting their academic performance and intervention in HEIs. The purpose and functionality of the framework are to produce a comprehensive, unbiased and efficient way of predicting student performance that its implementation is based upon multisources data and database system. It makes use of student demographic and learning management system (LMS) data from the institutional databases as well as the student psychosocial-personality (SPP) data from the survey collected from the student to predict performance. The proposed approach will be robust, generalizable, and possibly give a prediction at a higher level of accuracy that educational administrators can rely on for providing timely intervention to students.

In this article, we analyse reforms of academic quality assurance in light of organizational theory using the case example of Finnish higher education. Our purpose is to shed light on the processes...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the factors that influence internationally mobile students’ decision making regarding their choice to study in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Design/methodology/approach The existing literature on student motivation was examined, particularly factors relevant to the two key jurisdictions. Subsequently, a qualitative study was conducted to verify and expand upon these factors. Findings This study found a high degree of overlap between the two jurisdictions. However, Taiwan-based students emphasised elements such as the political climate, and the opinion of family, friends and peers, whereas academic quality and the perception of authority figures featured more for Hong Kong-based respondents. Practical implications The similarities and disparities between the two jurisdictions provide insights for decision makers, as well as avenues for further research. Originality/value This paper builds upon prior research into international student destination choice by exploring students’ decision-making process through qualitative research; thus, highlighting previously unexplored factors.

El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo principal determinar las expectativas laborales de los estudiantes de la carrera de Educación Inicial en la Universidad Metropolitana (Caracas-Venezuela) para contribuir al proceso de mejoramiento continuo de la calidad académica. Para ello se diseñó una investigación no experimental de tipo descriptivo conformada por dos variables: características de los estudiantes de educación superior y expectativas laborales. Tras la aplicación de una encuesta mixta (preguntas abiertas y cerradas) se analizaron los datos de manera cuantitativa y cualitativa. Los resultados más resaltantes señalaron el deseo de los sujetos de convertirse en agentes de cambio y desempeñar su rol docente (90,24%) a pesar de considerar que la carrera no es valorada por la sociedad venezolana, la mayoría de la muestra indicó que han desarrollado habilidades de sensibilidad social, fomentada directamente desde la Universidad Metropolitana y se mostró que el 47,62% como expectativa laboral principal a la Gerencia Educativa, lo cual pareciera indicar las altas expectativas laborales pues existe la proyección en el escalafón más alto de la jerarquía educativa. Se concluyó que estudiar las expectativas laborales de los estudiantes de educación superior contribuye al mejoramiento de los pensum de estudio lo cual se traduce en un mejor servicio y aumento de la calidad académica, en el marco que conocer la realidad del sector social-laboral en conjunto con los intereses, necesidades y expectativas de los sujetos, favorece la inserción en el mercado laboral.

Churches often validate their ministry training through Higher Education (HE) institutions in order to assure the academic quality of their awards. Although academic progress is carefully assessed, and churches have long debated formational aspects of ministry training, there has been little quantitative work that examines whether exposure to HE changes the faith of students. This study reports on the effects on various aspects of faith (such as beliefs about the Bible, biblical literalism, morality, exclusivity, quest orientation, and dogmatism) of a ministry programme delivered to Anglicans and Methodists that was validated by a United Kingdom university. A sample of 91 students completed questionnaires at the start and finish of their period of study, which ranged from one to three years. There was no evidence of systematic change in any of the tested variables that coincided with the period of study.

This article attempts to illustrate the definition of quality in higher education by using a literature research in four different aspects, including quality learner, quality environment, quality content, and academic quality. Several questions are then raised to consider further study in this area.

Since the founding of the University of Bologna in 1088, the quality and societal impact of university-based research has steadily risen and is widely expected to continually improve in the future. But, while the effectiveness of university teaching over this same period has improved through the adoption of laboratory instruction, the seminar method, tutorials, and more valid and reliable means of assessing students, the qualitative enhancement and continuous development of instruction compared to research appears less certain. Why does this difference exist? I will argue the cause is to be found in the limitations of universities’ traditional collegial culture and in the failure of recent national efforts to improve academic quality to effectively address academic norms and values.

Given the importance of evaluation, this article contextualizes the academic quality evaluation of within the field of national evaluation. Before offering practical experience in the development of evaluation processes of two public universities in Costa Rica, this article establishes a theoretical conceptual approach to the term of academic quality and to the evaluative approach developed around it. The article exposes the need to develop evaluation processes to establish coherence between the educational model of the university and the execution and results of the curricula of their careers. The article mentions types of academic quality evaluation, particularities that characterize these processes, and exposes two evaluation cases that have been developed in the country at the institutional level. Dada la importancia del quehacer valorativo, este artículo contextualiza la evaluación de la calidad académica dentro del entorno nacional. Antes de analizar la experiencia práctica en el desarrollo de procesos de evaluación institucional de dos universidades públicas en Costa Rica, se realiza un acercamiento conceptual teórico al término de calidad académica y al abordaje evaluativo que se desarrolla en torno a esta. El artículo expone la necesidad de desarrollar procesos de evaluación para establecer la coherencia entre el modelo educativo de la universidad y la ejecución y resultados de los planes de estudio de sus carreras. Define tipos de evaluación de la calidad académica, particularidades que caracterizan a estos procesos, y expone dos casos de evaluación que han sido desarrollados en el país a nivel institucional.

The aim of this study was to measures the effect of service quality on customer satisfaction. There are 384 respondents were selected from 19 universities of Khyber Pakhtunkwa (Pakistan). The proportionate stratified sampling method was used for the collection of data. The collected data was analysed using SPSS and AMOS packages. Exploratory Factor, Confirmatory Analysis and Parallel Analysis were also performed. Structural Equation Modelling technique was used to investigate the relationship among variables under investigation. Findings of the research reveals that majority of the respondents were satisfied with the dimensions of HEdPERF model in universities of Khyber Pakhunkhwa (Pakistan). The dimension academic was ranked the most important dimension of service quality. Thus, this unique finding implies that universities should nurture the academic quality rigorously in order to enhance students’ satisfaction without ignoring the remaining dimension of service quality.

La necesidad de fortalecer la internacionalización de la educación superior en el Ecuador se convierte en una meta importante para poder mejorar la calidad académica , para la elaboración del artículo se ha utilizado una metodología explicativa y descriptiva, mediante las técnicas de recopilación de información en diferentes fuentes secundarias de informes y otros artículos, se trata de explicar como la internacionalización ha sido importante para el desarrollo de la educación en muchos países. Se da un vistazo a las formas que existen para la internacionalización de la educación superior y los retos a que se enfrentan, revisando las nuevas tendencias educativas que nos hacen ver como la internacionalización de la educación se ha convertido en una práctica para el crecimiento económico de muchos países y la importancia para fortalecer la calidad de la educación superior en el Ecuador.

Academic quality is defined as the equivalent to academic standards related to student learning outcomes, which consist of specific levels of knowledge, skills, and abilities achieved by students participating in a program. The achievement of academic standards is accommodated by implementing both internal and external quality assurance practices. Internal quality assurance refers to policies and practices used by the higher education institutions to monitor and improve the quality of their education, while external quality assurance refers to policies and practices set up by external parties to assure the quality of higher education institutions and programs. Petra Christian University has built and implemented its internal quality assurance since 2009 based on its unique quality culture. After its ten-year journey and the achievements that Petra Christian University has reached in 2019, the Industrial Revolution 4.0 and Society 5.0 are challenges ahead that Petra Christian University has to face.

The demand for higher education of all types has increased substantially around the world. This has motivated higher-education institutions to expand and improve their services by placing greater emphasis on academic quality and student experience in order to increase student retention and graduation rates. A growing number of educational institutions around the world have adopted undergraduate research because it has been shown to be a high-impact educational practice for students. However, there are many ways to utilize undergraduate research depending on several factors such as learning domain, academic discipline, and field of study as well as learning objectives sought. Therefore, there are different models of undergraduate research being used around the world by colleges and universities. As undergraduate research continues to become more international, higher-education institutions are learning from each other about how best to adopt it within their own institution.

Many universities around the world rely on student instructors—current bachelor’s and master’s degree students—for tutorial teaching, yet we know nothing about their effectiveness. In a setting with random assignment of instructors to students, we show that student instructors are almost as effective as senior instructors at improving their students’ short- and longer-run academic achievement and labor market outcomes. We find little heterogeneity across different course types, student characteristics, or instructors’ personal academic quality. Our results suggest that the use of student instructors can serve as an effective tool for universities to reduce their costs with negligible negative effects on students.

Introduction: School dropout is a problem that affects higher education and the schools that are part of this educational system. School dropout has increased over time and is closely connected with students’ Quality of Academic Life. Objectives: To test the factorial structure of the Questionnaire of Academic Experience for Portuguese higher education students. Methodology: Quantitative, cross-sectional, descriptive and correlational study. A student socio-demographic background questionnaire and Almeida Soares and Ferreira’s Academic Experiences Questionnaire (QAE) (2002) were used as data collection instruments. The sample consists of 891 students aged between 17 and 40 years, with a mean age of 19.68 years (± 2.34 years). Results: The QAE designed by Almeida, et al. (2002), after validation, was composed of 35 items. Confirmatory factorial analysis demonstrates the validity of its structure in five dimensions: personal, study, interpersonal, career and institutional. Statistics on Quality of Academic Life have an average index of 60.46%; ± 10.02 sd. Female students show higher rates in dimensions such as: personal quality of life, profession/career, study, institutional, and overall quality of life. Male students show higher mean values in the quality of life, interpersonal and career dimensions Conclusions: The results of the present study support the psychometric adequacy of the QAE Almeida, et al. (2002) designed for the Portuguese population, indicating that it can be used in tests conducted in this field of knowledge. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion