This teaching and research project is interested in the theoretical and empirical comparative analysis of the understanding of day-to-day quality enhancement practices in higher education.
We argues that the flashy higher education quality assurance we meet in rankings, institutional websites and governmental programmes depends on day-to-day activities which do not get picked up by the formal assessments of quality assurance.
It departs from the concept of ‘quality work‘, defined as the multiple practices that address the quality for educational provision (Elken & Stensaker, 2018; Elken et al, 2020) to explore the daily efforts for quality enhancement of higher education systems across the world.
The project looks at comparative analysis, and has a special interest in Global South Countries, i.e. the Pacific Islands, Latin America and the Caribbean islands.
This blog is a depository of the different activities of the group, with the engagement of colleagues at the Comparative Education and International Development Research Group, at the University of Edinburg’s Moray House School of Education.
If you are interested in get involved in the project, please contact Dr Ali Barlete at the email: a.barlete (at) ed.ac.uk.
