Wednesday 20 February

Conference Program
As of 20 February

8:30 - 10:00

Registration
Opening Ceremony

10:00 - 10:15

Opening Speech:
Concepcion V. Pijano (PAASCU, Philippines, APQN President)
Tsutomu Kimura (NIAD-UE, Japan)
Kimito Kubo (MEXT, Japan)

10:15 - 11:15

Keynote Speech:
Speaker: Teiichi Sato (Board Member of CERI, OECD)
Title: Diversity as a factor in Development from the viewpoint of OECD's Education Policy
Room #201

11:15 - 11:30

Morning Tea Break

11:30 - 12:30

Plenary Session 1: Respect of diversity and network activity
Chair: Tsutomu Kimura (NIAD-UE, Japan)
Speaker: Antony Stella (AUQA, Australia)

Room #201

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 15:05

Parallel Working Sessions 1（Related to sub-theme: Respect of diversity and network activity）

Restaurant NOA (1F)
Room #101a

Room #101b

Room #301a

Room #301b

Chair: Hiroshi Fukusaki

Chair: Yusuke Horii

Chair: Colin N Peiris

Chair: Noriatsu Matsui(JABEE, Japan)(JUAA, Japan)

QAA Council of UGC(Sri Lanka)(NIAD-UE, Japan)

Introduction of a new
evaluative model of quality
assurance in the New
Zealand tertiary education
sector

13:30 13:55

Promoting Quality Literacy:
Undoing the Damage ofRankings

External quality audit inhigher education: The
Ethiopian Experience

Antony Stella

Tesfaye Teshome

AUQA (Australia)

Higher Education Relevanceand Quality Agency (Ethiopia)

14:05 14:30

14:40 15:05

Parallel Working Sessions 1

Mike Willing
New Zealand Qualifications
Authority (New Zealand)
Assuring and improving
quality: Enhancement-led
evaluation of Minban Higher
Vocational and Technical
Education in Shanghai

Jiang Yanqiao
Shanghai Educational
Evaluation Institute (China)

Quality Assurance throughMentor System: A Case Study
from a Pakistani MedicalUniversity

Abdul Wahid Usmani
Dow University of HealthSciences (Pakistan)

Evaluating the Effects ofQuality Assurance: A
Comparative Analysis
between ISO 9001 Certified
and Non-certified Hospitals inTurkey

Ozkan Tutuncu
Dokuz Eylul University(Turkey)

Establishment of Network of
Accreditation Bodies forEngineering Education in Asia
(NABEEA)

Preparation of Quality Audit in
Diponegoro University for
Better Service andAccountability

Masataka Tanigaki

Bambang Purwanggono

JABEE (Japan)

Diponegoro University(Indonesia)

Promotion of theUnderstanding of Quality
Assurance in JapaneseHigher Education - Throughthe Production of Glossary
with QAA -Akihiko Kawaguchi
NIAD-UE (Japan)

15:05 - 15:30

Afternoon Tea Break

15:30 - 16:30

Plenary Session 2: UNESCO-APQN Toolkit
Chair: Antony Stella (AUQA, Australia)
Speaker: Molly Lee (UNESCO)

16:30 - 18:00

Chair: Concepcion V. Pijano (PAASCU, Philippines, APQN President)
18:30 - 20:30

Room #201

Annual General Meeting (AGM)
Welcome Reception

Room #201
Restaurant NOA (1F)Thursday 21 February

Conference Program
9:00 - 10:00

Plenary Session 3: Quality assurance of QA agencies
Chair: Michio Yanai (JUAA, Japan)Speakers: David Woodhouse (AUQA, Australia)
Dorte Kristoffersen (HKCAAVQ, Hong Kong, China)

10:00 - 11:00

10:35 11:00

Parallel Working Sessions 2

10:00 10:25

Room #201

Parallel Working Sessions 2（Related to sub-theme: Quality Assurance of QA agencies）
Room #101a

Room #101b

Room #301a

Room #301b

Chair: Masataka Tanigaki

Chair: Yusuke Horii

Chair: Jiang Yanqiao

Chair: Noriatsu Matsui(JABEE, Japan)(JUAA, Japan)

Shanghai Educational
Evaluation Institute (China)(NIAD-UE, Japan)

Quality Assurance of Quality
Assurance Agencies - An
Indian Experience

Ganesh Anant Hegde

Establishing the Recognitionof Prior Learning Mechanism:
Lessons from the Hong Kong
Experience

National Assessment andAccreditation Council (India)

Kim Fong
Poon-McBrayer

Accreditation comparative
study in higher education
system of different countries
to propose an appropriate
model

HKCAAVQ (Hong Kong,China)

Mohsen Talebzadeh
Nobarian

Enhancing Internal Quality
Assurance: An Offshore
Campus Approach on theStudent Experience

Chenicheri Sid NairMonash University (Australia)

AmirKabir University ofTechnology (Iran)Thailand’s Higher Education
Quality Assurance: PastExperiences vs Present
System and Future Direction

The Malaysian Qualifications
Framework: The Ward that
Guides the Custodian

Need for External Quality
Assessments in University
Libraries: Sri Lankan Example

The Evaluation of Research
Quality and the Role of Social
Science

Zita Mohd Fahmi

Colin N Peiris

Kazuhiko Shibuya

Kittichai Wattananikorn

MQA (Malaysia)

QAA Council of UGC(Sri Lanka)

RIKEN (Japan)

The Commission on Higher
Education (Thailand)

11:00 - 11:30

Morning Tea Break

11:30 - 12:30

Plenary Session 4: Brisbane Communique
Chair: Dorte Kristoffersen (HKCAAVQ, Hong Kong, China)
Speaker: Susan Bennett (DEEWR, Australia)
Lois Sparkes (DEEWR, Australia)

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 14:30

Plenary Session 5: Mutual recognition and standards

Room #201
Restaurant NOA (1F)

Chair: Zita Mohd Fahmi (MQA, Malaysia)
Speakers: Hideo Ohashi (JABEE, Japan)
Rolf Heusser (ECA)
14:30 - 15:30

Parallel Working Sessions 3（Related to sub-theme: Mutual recognition and standards）
Room #101a

Room #101b

Room #301a

Room #301b

Chair: Masataka Tanigaki

Chair: Jun Kudo

Chair: Jiang Yanqiao

Chair: Colin N Peiris(JABEE, Japan)(JUAA, Japan)

Shanghai Educational
Evaluation Institute (China)

QAA Council of UGC(Sri Lanka)

Two schemes of quality
assurance of national
university corporation

The Role of the QAA(UK) andthe NAAC(India) in the Global
Perspectives

Cross border mobility withinregion: Mongolian experience

Yusuke Horii

Mohammed Mufakker

Kanazawa University(Member of JUAA) (Japan)

University Grants
Commission of Bangladesh(Bangladesh)

Understanding Diversity for
the Future as a Model ofEuropean Union Exchange
Students

The Internet-exam as aquality assurance tool in atransnational higher
education area

Aysen Bakioglu

Galina Motova

How we Should Contribute toImproving Higher Education
as a Quality Assurance
Agency -"The Teaching
Portfolio" Project-Rie Mori

Marmara University (Turkey)

National Accreditation Agencyof the Russian Federation(Russia)

Kayoko Kurita

NIAD-UE (Japan)

14:30 -15:30

Parallel Working Sessions 3

14:55

15:05 -

15:30 - 16:00

Room #201

Afternoon Tea BreakNIAD-UE (Japan)

Chuluundorj.B
University of the Humanities(Mongolia)

Measuring the un-flatness ofCross-Border Higher
Education: Implicationsof the US Experience16:00 - 17:30

Plenary Session 6: Progress reports by APQN Project Group Leaders: Discussion and Questions
Chair: Akihiko Kawaguchi (NIAD-UE, Japan, APQN Vice-President)
Presenters: Jagannath Patil (National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), India)
Dorte Kristoffersen (HKCAAVQ, Hong Kong, China)
Takahiro Saito (NIAD-UE, Japan)
Manuel T. Corpus (Accrediting Agency of Chartered Colleges and Universities in the Philippines(AACCUP), Philippines)
Antony Stella (AUQA, Australia)
Room #201

17:30 - 18:00

Overview on the Conference and Closing

18:15 - (21:15)

Board Meeting
Chair: Concepcion V. Pijano (PAASCU, Philippines, APQN President)

Friday 22 February
10:00 - 13:00

Conference Program

Study Tour (Option)
Venues: Chiba University
Shibaura Institute of Technology*Select either one of the venues

Room #201
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