John L. Davies
ABOUT THE PRESENTATION
Quality Assurance and its contribution to Institutional Development and Transformation
In this, we are looking at:
* QA (Quality Assurance) as an instrument of creative destabilisation in HEI (higher education institutions)
* QA (Quality Assurance) as a means of stimulating cultural change of HEI (higher education institutions) to meet external agendas and imperatives
* evolving relationship between QA (Quality Assurance) and strategic planning, in terms of e.g. institutional diagnosis, stakeholder engagement, monitoring institutional performance, risk assessment, the planning cycle; behavioural consequences; data and management information.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
John L Davies, Emeritus Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Higher Education Management at Anglia Ruskin University, was previously Dean of the Graduate School at Anglia Polytechnic University and is currently Visiting Professor of Higher Education Management at the International Centre for Higher Education Management in the School of Management at Bath University.
He has been one of the leading commentators on European higher education since 1970 (as Principal Consultant with the OECD, the European Rectors Conference, and consulted to UNESCO, the Soros Foundation, the World Bank, the European Commission and to 30 government agencies for higher education, and to circa 75 universities globally).
He has been active nationally and internationally in establishing higher education management as a field of study in universities in UK and Europe.
