Higher Education Quality

  • Higher education, GUNi, SDG, Glocal, 2030 Agenda, Universities, global goals
    GUNi Highlights

    Higher Education Institutions; key players to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

    Tuesday, November 10, 2015
    • This was the core message issued during the conference “From HEEFA towards SDG4: Building on achievements” held last October in Barcelona.
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    • This event, co-organized by GUNi, focused on recommendations for the Framework for Action (FFA) which
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  • Marco Antonio Rodrigues Dias

    Marco Antonio Rodrigues Dias presented the paper entitled 'The Institutional and Political Challenges of Accreditation in the International Sphere' at the Third International Barcelona Conference on Higher Education, 'Accreditation for Quality Assurance: What Is at Stake?'.

  • Peter Okebukola

    Peter Okebukola suggested the creation of an African higher education area based on the European model and talked about the conditions needed to prevent brain drain. He also presented the paper "Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa" at the Third...

  • Abdel Bagi A.G. Babiker

    President of the Evaluation and Accreditation Corporation at the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in Sudan.

  • The Changing Concerns of Higher Education. Examining The World Bank's Papers on Higher Education Since 1994

    In this article Amy H. Ewen of the University of Kassel presents a historical comparative analysis of the World Bank reports on Higher Education. She critically engages with the proposals of the World Bank emphasizing its success and learning process. She briefly reviews some of the core tenets of...

  • Building World-Class Universities in China: From the View of National Strategies

    In this article, the author discusses the rapid growth of the university system in China, termed “massification”, and the backlash which has arisen as a result of this sudden expansion. She also dissects the government’s attempts to curtail the issues resulting from these challenges.

Partners

  • UNESCO. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
  • The Catalan Association of Public Universities (ACUP)

Sponsored by

  • Generalitat de Catalunya. Ministry of Business and Employment. Department of Research and Universities
  • Generalitat de Catalunya. Ministry for Foreign Action and Open Government