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GLOBALIZATION AND QUALITY ASSURANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION: INSIGHTS TO PAKISTAN AND BAHRAIN
| Abstract: This paper on Globalization and Quality Assurance in higher education with special focus on Insights to Pakistan and Bahrain reflects on phenomena of Globalization, its issues, need, impact and link with improved quality of higher education along with discussion on defining quality for higher education. It further provides details of process of quality assurance, indicators of quality assurance and the practices of quality assurance in higher education sector of Pakistan and Bahrain in specific asa set of Good Practices. The paper also elaborates on new dynamics of higher education sector and its increased role in building of societies and emerging economies in the current scenario of more mobility of faculty and students across borders. The paper includes discussion on Quality Assurance, its concepts, diversified nature, and components as well. Further, substantial discussion on Rankings in the context of Globalization is also included to highlight one of the important practice of Rankings attaining attention of stakeholders globally. The paper provides not only general discussion on quality assurance processes, indicators and focal points but also provides an insight of Pakistan and Bahrain; two of the emerging higher education sectors in South Asia and Gulf region respectively to recognize that quality assurance in higher education institutions is equally important across regions. The paper also reflects on importance of improving quality of higher education and to achieve globally comparable standards through quality assurance policies and process as an outcome of increased phenomenon of globalization. It comes up with a notion that developing the best quality providing universities to serve as engines of socioeconomic development is inevitable for the developing countries to compete globally like same is being focused in case of Pakistan and Bahrain. |
| Keywords: Higher Education, Quality Assurance, Globalization, Engines of Socioeconomic Development, Rankings, Pakistan, Bahrain, Quality Assurance Processes, QA Indicators, Universities |
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