教育部学位与研究生教育发展中心Quality Assurance of Cross-Border Education andAsian Educational Exchange and Cooperation

LIN Mengquan
Director of Evaluation Dep. of CDGDC
China Academic Degrees and Graduate Education
Development CenterOct. 2013, Tokyo, Japan
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内容概要
OUTLINEI.
QA of CBHE in China
II.
Evaluation of CFCRS
III. Collective Action on CBQAN---Promote Asian
Educational QA Exchange and Cooperation

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I. QA of CB Higher Education in China

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1. Who We Are
CDGDC is an administrative institution directly under the supervision of MOE,
operating under the joint leadership of MOE and ADCSC, and possessing thequalification of independent legal entity.

Evaluation
Department
Verification
Department
Examination
Department

Authorized by government:•Regular Evaluation (every 6 years)•Random Check of Doctoral Dissertation•Regular Evaluation of CFCRS
Initiated by CDGDC:•Professional Degree Accreditation(MBA, etc.)•CDR
International cooperation:•CAMPUS Asia
•CBQAN, INQAAHE, APQN
•QAA, TEQSA, MQA•ASEAN+3 Working Group

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2. Chinese QA Framework of HE
1.External Governmnet Monitoring：regular evaluationUndergraduate: every 5 years
Graduate: every 6 years

Entry control(self-regulation)

2.Internal QA system·enrollment/training/academic degrees·self-assessment(every 5/6 years)

Learning outcome

3.External supporting measures
CDGDC:CDR (China Discipline Ranking),
Accreditation（MBA, etc. on voluntary basis）
Society: social institutional ranking

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3. Cross-Border Education in ChinaTypes of CB Education

Staff Mobility
Personnel
Mobility

Types of CB
Education

Overseas
Studying
TeacherMobility
CFCRS

Program/ProjectMobility

Overseas
Running
Schools（DistanceEducation）教育部学位与研究生教育发展中心6

4. QA of Cross-Border Education in China
 International Recommendations
 UNESCO-OECD： “Guidelines for Quality Provisions in Cross-border Higher Education”（2005）
 INQAAHE： "Guidelines of Good Practice in Quality Assurance"（2007）
 APQN： "Higher Education Quality Assurance Principles for the Asia Pacific Region(also known as 'Chiba Principles')"（2008）
 ENQA："Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Education Area”（2009）

 Chinese Policies
 “ National Outline of Medium and Long Term Education Reform and Development (20102020）”(2010)
 “CFCRS Regulations of the PRC”（2003）
 “Implementing Measures of CFCRS Regulations of the PRC”（2004）
 “Regulations of Overseas Running Schools(provisional)”（2003）

The core contents: Cooperation Regulations, Bilateral agreement requirements,Application and approval, QA system and standards.
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II. Evaluation of CFCRS in China

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1.1 Chinese CBHE Practices: CFCRS
 What is CFCRS? (a typical mode of CBHE)CFCRS: Chinese-Foreign Co-running Schools/programs
The CFCRS/P involves the activities of cooperation between foreign andChinese educational institutions in establishing educational programs orschools (or institutions in some cases) within the territory of China toprovide education services mainly to Chinese citizens.

Programs
CFCRS
Schools
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1.2 Chinese CBHE Practice: CFCRS

Total: more than 800
programs/schools

Programs

Schools

7%

Countries/Regions: 28(data up to Apr. 2013)93%

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1.3 Chinese CBHE Practice: CFCRS
 Scale of CFCRS involving Asian countries and regions inmainland China(data up to Apr. 2013)
国家/地区
项目ProgramCountry/Region
中国香港
35
HK, China
27
韩国KOR12
日本JAP2新加坡SGP
2
印度IND
中国台湾Taiwan,0China

机构School总数Total

439

10002812
2211

Data source: www.JSJ.edu.cn (Apr. 2013)
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1.4 Chinese CBHE Practice: CFCRS
 CFCRS involving Japan and South Korea

Countries
Japan

Programs inoperation
12

Programs being
evaluated (2013)
3South Korea

28

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Data source: www.JSJ.edu.cn (Apr. 2013)2013/10/18

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1.5 Chinese CBHE Practice: CFCRS
 Approval and Quality Monitoring of CFCRS

Requirements for cooperative parties (both sides)

Approval in accordance with relevant lawsby the Chinese government (MOE）

Evaluation of school running (CDGDC)

Qualification or improvement suggestions (MOE)
Certification

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2.1 Evaluation Standards and Procedure of CFCRS
 the Evaluation Index System of CFCRS
1. Mission
2. Management system
3. Asset management
4. Quality control
5. Faculty
6. Teaching facilities
7. Training Quality
8. Social Service
9. Characteristics
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2.2 Evaluation Standards and Procedures of CFCRS
 Evaluation Procedures of CFCRS
 Main Steps
Selfevaluation
reportsubmission

Socialevaluation:
online publicity,
student
satisfaction
survey,socialreputation
surveyConclusion,Peer Review

Release,

Improvement 2013 Evaluation
 Total amount of CFCRS programs/schools: more than 300
 Involved countries and regions: 21

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2.3 Application of results
 Facilitate school-running and improve quality
 Promote responsibility sharing of the educational importers
and exporters
 Certification according to the evaluation results

Current progress 4 provinces completed, involving 4 Asian countries/regions
 23 provinces including more than 300 programs/schools arereceiving evaluation in 2013.

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2.4 QA experiences (China)：
 System：one-to-many CB educational QA system，togain experiences for bilateral or multilateral QA
 Standards：standards and procedures (published online)

 Challenges：
 CB education is the most typical and comprehensive
form of educational cooperation, and its QA is the mostdirect, urgent and effective practice for QA cooperation.
 Such as: QF, QA, mutual recognition of curriculums,
qualifications, and third-party degrees, etc.

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III. Collective Act. on CBQAN--Promote Asian Higher Educational QA
Exchange and Cooperation

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1. Challenges and Opportunities for Asian Education
 European higher educational integration has been developing
rapidly and has established a more completed system, EHEA.
Due to country diversities in Asian region, it is an unbalanced
dialogue between Asian and European regions.
 There is no international QA exchange platform for education
importers and exporters.
 The Asian countries have reached an agreement that Asia
should cooperate with Europe, starting with CB education andexploring QA cooperation in HE.

2013/10/18

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2.1 Collective Act. on CBQAN
 ASEMME 4 and Initiative of CBQAN
Explore Asia-Europe Cooperation. Start withcooperation in cross-border education, to explore AsiaEurope cooperation on QA in HE.

Agreement on CBQAN. “The Ministers also welcomed
China’s initiative to establish a Cross-border Quality
Assurance Network in Higher Education (CBQAN).”(ASEMME4 Chairs Conclusion-12, May 2013)

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2.2 Collective Act. on CBQAN
 Co-construction of CBQAN and promotion ofeducational cooperation and exchange in Asia
Co-construction of CBQAN•Promote “thematic collaboration” in degree awarding, credit
transfer, substantial equivalence in curriculum system anddegree standard, Guidelines in QA, etc. between Asian countries•Promote educational collaboration among Asian countries
Ensure Equal Dialogue•Build up collaborative QA mechanism to enhance the discourse
power of Asian countries at the international education platform

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2.3 Collective Act. on of CBQAN
Work Plan According to the Final Chair’s Conclusions of ASEMME4--Quality Assurance and Recognition
Dialogue in the field of quality assurance andrecognition

MalaysiaHEQA center for Asia

Japan

Working group under the ASEAN+3 Education
Ministers MeetingJapan

CBQAN

China

Peer learning activities

Belgium (Flemish Community andFrench Community)

Working group on the implementation of the ASEM
Recognition Bridging Declaration

China (coordinator) Australia, Austria,
Belgium (Flemish Community andFrench Community), Brunei Darussalam,Germany, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,
Portugal and the United Kingdom

NICs in the Asian region and to set up a website

China

Expert group to discuss interregional credit transfer
mechanisms

Australia, Belgium (French Community),Brunei Darussalam, China, Estonia,Lithuania Malaysia. Portugal andThailand

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2.4 Collective Act. on CBQAN
 Explore cooperation mechanism
At the beginning stage, China as the initiator, takes charge ofcommunicating with other QA organizations to jointly construct the network.
So far some Asian countries have reached an agreement on coconstruction of CBQAN and the action plan is under discussion. We
welcome the QA agenies to join the network(CBQAN) .

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2.5 Collective Act. on CBQAN
CBQAN Action Plan
Proposal：regular activities, cooperative platform

Regular Activities
 Symposium Periodic participation ¥ discussion of working group
 Discussion on QA standards for Asia-Europe countries

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2.6 Collective Act. on CBQAN
Cooperation platform-CBQAN Webpage ( on Website ofANICs )Information
Platform

QA of CB
Education

Main
Activities

About
CBQAN

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