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CALL FOR PAPERS
The call is made for papers on the main theme of the INQAAHE Conference 2005, to be delivered at the Wellington, New Zealand conference 29 March-1 April 2005.

The Conference theme is: Quality, assurance and diversity
Whether in local, national, regional or global contexts, all quality assurance agencies have dealt with or will deal with the relationships between quality, assurance and diversity. This conference will include a rich variety of presentations from staff from higher education institutions, quality assurance agencies and others. To assist in the creation of presentations that will address most effectively the broad issues of the theme, the conference will be structured around four thematic tracks.

Track 1: Impact on diversity
Theme co-ordinator: Dr Steve Crow
Executive Director, The Higher Learning Commission, United States of America

Diversity can be interpreted broadly. For example:
• diversity in institutions
• diversity in agencies sharing in quality assurance activities
• diversity in qualification frameworks;
• diversity in ethnic, racial, or cultural groups served
• diversity in stakeholders such as students, faculties, ministries, regional networks.

Presentations for this track should focus on the learning achieved when an agency or group of agencies crafted quality assurance programmes (standards, processes, and involvement of experts) to be responsive to known issues of diversity or modified its programme in response to diversity.

Track 2: Indigenous peoples
Theme co-ordinator: Emeritus Professsor Phil Meade
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), University of Otago, New Zealand

This theme focuses on quality assurance and equivalence of standards in higher education for indigenous peoples. New Zealand, as a country where a Treaty has been signed with indigenous peoples, represents a particularly interesting location to explore this topic; the Treaty of Waitangi imposes on the Crown duties of:
• partnership with Maori,
• active protection of Maori interests,
• redress of past breaches,

While other nations represented in the World Indigenous Nationals Higher Education Consortium are particularly invited to participate, this track is open to any presentations that focus on the impact of quality assurance and the development and application of quality assurance methodologies responsive to the higher education experience of indigenous peoples. Presentations that explore the philosophical, cultural and definitional issues that arise from these considerations will be of particular interest.

Track 3: Quality assurance in transnational issues
Theme co-ordinator: Ms Maria José Lemaitre
Secretary General, National Commission of Accreditation, Chile

Transnational education, mobility of academic staff, students and professionals, recognition of qualifications, are rapidly becoming key issues in the analysis of higher education. Quality assurance agencies have developed into important actors within countries but are increasingly expected to play an international role. This track intends to address these issues, and improve the understanding of the contribution quality assurance can make to the internationalisation of teaching, learning and working.

Presentations in this track should focus on the transnational issues related to one or more of the following topics:
• cross-border recognition of quality assurance agencies
• relationship between quality assurance and cross-border recognition
  of qualifications
• quality assurance of transnational education
• quality assurance and mobility of academic staff and students

Track 4: Effectiveness of quality assurance
Theme co-ordinator: Professor Lee Harvey
Director of the Centre for Research and Evaluation, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom

This track seeks papers that provide evidence about the effect that external quality assurance processes have had on institutions. Although analyses of the impact on institutions' quality processes are welcome, the theme seeks studies of the effect external quality monitoring, of any kind, has had on student learning and on the research process.

In particular, whether quality assurance has led:
• to improvements in the quality of the student experience, outcomes,
  competence or employability
• to changes in pedagogical approaches
• to enhancements in the quality and standards of research.

Papers might also address whether the effect of external procedures on institutions is sustained over time or whether any impact is short-lived.

Requirements for submission - revised as at 4th November 2004.

There is time for a limited number of presentations within each track, and only proposals which most clearly meet the criteria for the track will be selected for presentation. English is the language of the conference.

There are now two methods to signal interest in submitting a paper:

1. Submit a title and abstract (100 - 150 words) indicating the theme track*.

2. Submit as per above but also include a 1000 word summary of the paper.

*A proposal should indicate the conference sub-theme track to which the paper refers.

Final acceptance of papers from delegates using Method 1 will be provisional upon receiving the 1000 words, or the full paper, to the satisfaction of the track co-ordinators.

Whichever method is used, submissions must be made by e-mail attachment to inqaahe@hetac.ie by 17th December 2004.

All proposals will be reviewed by the Conference Programme Committee, and authors will be notified of the Committee’s decision by 31 January 2005. The final version of papers approved must be received by the Committee by 28 February 2005.

Post-conference publication
The Network’s journal, Quality in Higher Education, plans a special conference edition of a limited number of papers of no more than 3500 words. To be considered for this publication, final edited papers, conforming to journal style and with appropriate referencing, need to be received by the Editor within two weeks after the conference (by 15 April 2005). All submissions for the special issue (or subsequent issues) will be subject to the journal’s usual refereeing procedure. Instructions to authors can be found at:

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13538322.asp

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