第十屆高等教育國際學術研討會
教與學質量保證創新與發展

The 10th Higher Education International Conference on Innovation and Developments in Teaching and Learning Quality Assurance

2018/11/20-22

Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao, China

主題發言
Keynote Sessions

Evolving Quality
質量演化
Professor Sheelagh Matear (Executive Director, Academic Quality Agency for New Zealand Universities, New Zealand)
Abstract

Quality assurance expectations and methods need to evolve to meet the changing needs of universities (and other institutions), governments and students. Quality assurance also needs to be forward looking to ensure that it addresses future challenges to academic quality. Therefore, the agencies responsible for undertaking quality assurance also need be future focussed and evolve. 

The Academic Quality Agency for New Zealand universities has been in existence for 25 years this year. In contrast to many quality assurance bodies, it has remained in largely the same form and employing the same overall method of quality assurance. Despite this apparent ‘sameness’, how AQA will undertake its sixth cycle of academic audit constitutes both continuity and evolution in academic quality. It needs to both reflect and respond to changes impacting on universities and continue to support the maintenance of high standards of academic quality that New Zealand universities are known for.

Author Profile(s)
Emeritus Professor Sheelagh Matear is the Executive Director of the Academic Quality Agency for New Zealand Universities, Te Pokapū Kounga Mātauranga mō ngā Whare Wānanga o Aotearoa (AQA).  Under her leadership, AQA and the New Zealand universities have developed a model for a sixth cycle of academic audit which includes an enhancement theme, emphasising the embedded or systemic nature of quality and students, or recent graduates, as auditors.  Prior to taking up the director role at AQA, Professor Matear was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic Quality and Student Experience) at Lincoln University in New Zealand.