Quality Assurance and Improvement: International Sites

The following information provides links to supra-national networks of quality assurance (QA) agencies which are a relatively recent phenomenon in higher education in that all have emerged in the 1990s. There are also links to international associations of universities and university chief executives from higher education institutions around the world. Web contacts for QA agencies, centres and services are provided and are an indication of the importance that quality assurance and improvement have assumed in global higher education.

Supra-national quality assurance networks
International associations of universities
International quality assurance agencies, centres and services

Supra-national quality assurance networks
International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education
OECD Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE)
Network of Central and Eastern European Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education
The European?Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education
IDP Global Network

International associations of universities
International Association of Universities
International Association for University Presidents
European University Association
European Association of Institutions?in Higher Education
AVCC Development of Offshore Quality Framework

Canada
Quality Network for Universities

New Zealand
New Zealand Universities Academic Audit Unit
Quality?Advancement at the University of Otago, New Zealand

France
Comite National d'Evaluation (CNE)

Finland
Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council

Netherlands
Inspectorate of Higher Education

Norway
Norwegian Agency of Quality Assurance in Education

Spain
National Institute for the Education System Evaluation and Quality

Sweden
H?oleverket - National Agency for Higher Education

United Kingdom
Centre for Research into Quality
Times Higher Education Supplement
United Kingdom Higher Education Funding Council
United Kingdom Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education

United States of America
Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA)
Quality Assurance Services
American Council on Education
Baldridge National Quality criteria for performance excellence in education