2010InternationalInformationPackage
Workshop
Tuesday 2 March 2010
Siam City Hotel Bangkok, Thailand

Tuesday 2 March 2010 Siam City Hotel Bangkok, Thailand
TimeDetails

12:00-

Buffet lunch

13:00-13:30
13:30-13:45

Venue
Pre-Function ofRegistration

Kamolthip 1（2nd floor)
Opening Remarks

Kamolthip 1（2nd floor)

Shin-ichi Hirano(President of NIAD-UE, Japan)
Anthony McClaran［Video Message］(Chief Executive of QAA, UK)
Ji Ping
13:45-14:30(Director of HEEC, China)
Keynote SpeechInternationalizing Quality Assurance : the importance ofinformation sharing

Stamenka Uvalić-Trumbić(Chief, Section for Reform, Innovation and Quality Assurance,
Division of Higher Education, UNESCO)
14:30-15:40

Plenary Session 1
Chair: Stamenka Uvalić-Trumbić(Chief, Section for Reform, Innovation and Quality Assurance,
Division of Higher Education, UNESCO)
Presentation 1: Case of Japan
Enhancement of Mutual Understanding and Information
Provision in Higher Education -Japanese EffortsTsutomu Kimura(Specially Appointed Professer of NIAD-UE, Advisor to
the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science andTechnology of MEXT, President of JABEE, Japan）

Organized byNIAD-UE
National Institution for Academic Degrees andQuality Assurance Agency

Higher Education Evaluation Center ofUniversity Evaluation (NIAD-UE, Japan)

for Higher Education (QAA, UK)

the Ministry of Education (HEEC, China)

TimeDetails

Venue

Presentation 2: Case of China

Introduction to Evaluation in Higher Education in China
Ji Ping(Director of HEEC, China)
Discussion
15:40-15:55

Coffee Break

15:55-17:05

Plenary Session 2
Chair: Yayoi Tanaka(Associate Professor, Department of Research for University
Evaluation, NIAD-UE, Japan)

Presentation 3: Case of UK
Quality and Standards in UK higher education: meeting thechallenges

Carolyn Campbell(Head of International Affairs, QAA, UK)
Presentation 4: Experiences of the Asia-Pacific Region
Capacity Building for Quality Assurance: Lessons Learned
Concepcion V. Pijano(President of APQN, Executive Director of PAASCU,Philippines)
Discussion
17:05-17:15

Overview of the Workshop and Closing
Akihiko Kawaguchi(Vice-President of NIAD-UE, Japan)

17:30-18:30

Kamolporn 1（1st floor)

Cocktail Reception

Supported by

The Office for National Education Standards andAsia-Pacific Quality Network (APQN)

Quality Assessment (ONESQA, Thailand)

Shin-ichi Hirano

Opening Remarks

President of NIAD-UE, Japan
National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation (NIAD-UE)

Dr. Shin-ichi Hirano became the President of NIAD-UE in April 2009. Before taking up thisposition, he was the President of Nagoya University from 2004 to 2009. His professional career
started at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1970. In the following years, he joined Nagoya
University, where he held a senior position as well as served as a professional of Inorganic
Materials Chemistry, Crystalline Growth and Materials Evaluation. He has contributed many
services in national and international committees and academic societies. At present, he is amember of the National Council for Science and Technology, Japan. He is also the Chair Professorand Special Advisor to the President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He holds a D.Eng. fromNagoya University.

Anthony McClaranOpening Remarks

Chief Executive of QAA, UK

Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA)

Anthony McClaran took up post as Chief Executive of QAA on 1 October 2009, after nearly six
years as Chief Executive at UCAS. He joined UCAS in 1995 to lead the then Academic Services andDevelopment department, and was appointed Deputy Chief Executive a year later. He became
Acting Chief Executive in January 2003 and was appointed Chief Executive in December of thatyear.
A graduate in English and American Literature from the University of Kent, Anthony began hiscareer at the University of Warwick where, among other posts, he was Admissions Officer. In 1992
he moved to the University of Hull to take up the post of Academic Registrar, with responsibility
for an office which included recruitment, admissions, student records, international affairs and theinternal allocation of resources. In 1995 he was appointed Acting Registrar and Secretary. Anthony
sat on the Council of the University of Gloucestershire from 1997 until 2005 and in September 2007
was appointed Chair of Council, a post he relinquished on taking up his QAA role. He served onProfessor Schwartz’s Admissions to HE Steering Group, the HE Group for the Tomlinson Reviewof 14-19 Qualifications, the SHA Commission on Post-qualification Application (PQA) and Sir Alan
Wilson’s Consultation Group on Improving the HE Applications Process.
He is a director of the Inspiring Futures Foundation, and a governor of the John Lyon School.
Anthony also chairs Gloucestershire First’s Employment and Skills Advisory Panel. He is a Fellowof the Royal Society of Arts and the Chartered Management Institute, a Freeman of the Company ofEducators and a member of the Honourable Company of Gloucestershire.

Ji PingOpening Remarks

Plenary Session 1: Presenter

Director of HEEC, China
Higher Education Evaluation Center of the Ministry of Education (HEEC)

Prof. Ji Ping was graduated from the Northwestern Polytechnical University. Having been engaged
in the field of higher education long-term development research and annual project management,
Prof. Ji participated in the policy-decision making process of the national educational undertaking
reform with developing Ten-five and Eleven-five planning. Being a data craft of State Statistics
Bureau, she was in charge of annual statistics management and analytical work of educational
undertaking. Since 1987, Prof. Ji Ping took the posts as the vice section chief, division chief, vice
chief of the Development Planning Department of Ministry of Education. In December 2007, she
was appointed as the director of HEEC.

Stamenka Uvalić-Trumbić

Keynote Speech

Plenary Session 1: Chair

Chief of Section for Reform, Innovation and Quality Assurance,
Division of Higher Education, UNESCO
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Ms. Stamenka Uvalić-Trumbić is Chief of the Reform, Innovation and Quality Assurance Section in
the Division of Higher Education, UNESCO Headquarters in Paris from 2001 to the present day.
She also worked as Programme specialist at UNESCO’s European Centre for Higher Education,
CEPES Bucharest, Romania (1990-1999). Prior to joining UNESCO, she was Secretary-General of theAssociation of Universities of Yugoslavia (1987-1990).
She has engaged in many international projects including: UNESCO-OECD partnership indeveloping the 2005 Guidelines for Quality Provision in Crossborder Higher Education;
UNESCO-World Bank partnership 2008 Global Initiative for Capacity-building in Quality
Assurance for Developing and Transition Countries (GIQAC); and UNESCO’s World Conference
on Higher Education (UNESCO, Paris, 2009) as Executive Secretary. She was awarded‘International Higher Education Professional of the Year 2009’ by her peers in the International
Community of Higher Education’ (Washington, D.C., 28 January 2010).

Tsutomu Kimura

Plenary Session 1: Presenter

Specially Appointed Professor of NIAD-UE, Advisor to the Minister of Education, Culture,Sports, Science and Technology of MEXT, President of JABEE, Japan
National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation (NIAD-UE)
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
Japan Accreditation Board for Engineering Education (JABEE)

From 1998 to 2009, Dr. Tsutomu Kimura was the president of NIAD-UE. In April 2009, he wasappointed as an advisor to the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. He
started his professional career at Tokyo Institute of Technology, where he engaged in research andteaching in the field of Geotechnical Engineering over 30 years. From 1993 to 1997, he was thepresident of Tokyo Institute of Technology. On retiring from Tokyo Institute of Technology, hechanged the field of his activities from engineering to quality assurance of higher education. Hewas a board member of INQAAHE from 2003 to 2005. He was the vice chairman for CentralCouncil for Education and a member of Science Council of Japan until 2007. He received Master ofEngineering from University of Tokyo and Doctoral Degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology.
He was awarded the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (C.B.E) in 2004.

Carolyn Campbell

Plenary Session 2: Presenter

Head of International Affairs, QAA, UK
Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA)

Carolyn Campbell MA LLB (University of Glasgow)
Carolyn Campbell is currently Head of International Affairs at the Quality Assurance Agency forHigher Education (QAA), UK, with responsibility for strategic policy advice on international
quality assurance and for the management of the Agency’s international collaboration activities.
Prior to this she was a senior staff member at the Higher Education Quality Council and a policy
adviser in the Education Development Centre at the University of Roehampton.
In the early 1990s, she worked on secondment at the Erasmus Bureau on the development andmanagement of the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) pilot project. She has continued
involvement in European matters through membership of the UK Bologna Stakeholders Group andinvolvement in the activities of the UK Higher Education Europe Unit. Carolyn is a member of theAdvisory Board of the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education and of the Student Experience
Advisory Group for the Prime Minister’s Initiative on International Education. Carolyn has
contributed articles on transnational education and quality assurance to EC, OECD andObservatory publications and was a member of the expert group that developed the OECDUNESCO guidelines on quality provision in cross border education.

Concepcion V. Pijano

Plenary Session 2: Presenter

President of APQN, Executive Director of PAASCU, Philippines
Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU)

Concepcion V. Pijano is the President of the Asia Pacific Quality Network and the Executive

Director of the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU).
She has spent many years in academic accreditation and quality assurance and has shared herexperiences and expertise with various institutions and organizations, both national andinternational. She has served as a consultant for accreditation in many countries, such as Laos,Cambodia, Bangladesh, Mongolia, Indonesia, Yemen, China and Egypt. In addition, she is anaccreditation specialist and resource person for international agencies, such as the World Bank, theAsian Development Bank and the UNESCO. She has authored several manuals and tools foraccreditation, conducted workshops on accreditation systems for various countries, advised

governments on quality assurance issues and presented papers in both regional and internationalconferences.

Akihiko Kawaguchi

Overview of the Workshop and Closing

Vice-President of NIAD-UE, Japan
National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation (NIAD-UE)

Dr. Akihiko Kawaguchi became Vice-President of NIAD-UE in April 2006. His previous position
was Director and Professor of NIAD-UE’s Department of Research for University Evaluation.
Before he joined NIAD-UE as Professor in 2001, he had held several positions of University ofTokyo. From October 2007 to March 2009, he was APQN Vice-President, where he had activelyengaged in the network activities. He has energetically served on many committees andparticipated in meetings of experts. His fields of research are life sciences and evaluation of higher
education. He published a lot of books about his professional fields. He received D. Sc. inChemistry from Kyoto University.

Yayoi Tanaka

Plenary Session 2: Chair

Associate Professor, Department of Research for University Evaluation, NIAD-UE, Japan
National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation (NIAD-UE)

Dr. Yayoi Tanaka is an Associate Professor of the Department of Research for University Evaluationof NIAD-UE since September 2006. Prior to joining NIAD-UE, she gave lectures of International
Project as a guest Associate Professor of Department of Civil Engineering, the University of Tokyo
from 2003 to 2006. Her specialties are theory of nonprofit organization and evaluation theory.
Research themes are “A Study of Sustainability and Organizational Health of Nonprofit
Organizations” and “Development of University Evaluation and Assessment Tool by ApplyingMethodologies of Other Sectors” and more. She is a past vice-president of Japan NPO Research
Association. She holds a M.A. from Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University
and a Doctoral Degree (International Public Policy) from Osaka University.

Organizers and Supporters

NIAD-UE

National Institution for Academic Degrees andUniversity Evaluation (NIAD-UE, Japan)
NIAD-UE is a Japanese incorporated administrative agency, which supports Japanese higher
education institutions in their quality assurance endeavors. In view of the developing
globalization of higher education, we also work closely with overseas partners to increaseinternationally the value of the Japanese quality assurance in higher education.

Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA, UK)
QAA is an independent body funded by subscriptions from universities and colleges andthrough contracts with the higher education funding bodies. It carries out external quality
assurance by visiting universities and colleges to review how well they are fulfilling their
responsibilities. It also offers guidance on maintaining and improving quality assurance
processes and developing course delivery through the Academic Infrastructure.

Higher Education Evaluation Center of the Ministry ofEducation (HEEC, China)
HEEC, established in August 2004, is an administrative body under the auspices of theMinistry of Education (MOE) of P. R. China. Its main responsibility is to organize andimplement the evaluation of baccalaureate degree programs and associate degree programs
offered in higher education institutions.

Asia-Pacific Quality Network (APQN)
APQN aims to enhance the quality of higher education in Asia and the Pacific region throughbuilding the capacity of quality assurance agencies and extending the cooperation between
them. To achieve our aim, we prepare and disseminate information, particularly through ourwell maintained web site, and provide training through workshops, conferences andconsultancies.

The Office for National Education Standards andQuality Assessment (ONESQA, Thailand)
The Office for National Education Standards and Quality Assessment (Public Organization) is
an academic body specializing in educational quality evaluation. It has the objectives ofenhancing the quality of the education provision system in Thailand, enabling the educational
institutions to provide quality education to learners, who will be endowed with virtue,competence and happiness.

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