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9789766408398: Caribbean Quality Culture: Persistent Commitment to Improving Higher Education
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ISBN 10: 9766408394 ISBN 13: 9789766408398
Verlag: University of the West Indies Press, 2021

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<html><p><i>Caribbean Quality Culture</i> takes the Caribbean higher education community and its stakeholders beyond quality assurance of higher education to delve into an exploration and assessment of the application of continuous quality improvement principles and strategies that are essential elements of a mature and effective quality management system in higher education institutions.</p><p>The principles and strategies that can actually result in continuous quality improvement may not always be fully understood throughout higher education institutions. This collection seeks to bridge this gap to facilitate successful implementation of continuous quality improvement in such operational areas as governance and administration, student development and learning outcomes, and external quality assurance.</p><p><p>Experienced and respected Caribbean higher education stakeholders, including leaders and practitioners, explore a range of topics, such as leadership, stakeholder engagement, the online learning environment, curriculum development and curriculum renewal for sustainable development, the transformative development of students, and the continuous quality improvement implications for the Caribbean of international and regional developments in the higher education sector.</p></p></html><p><b>Contributors:</b> Jonas I. Addae, Eduardo Raoul Ali, Hilary McD. Beckles, Compton Bourne, Ronald Brunton, Margo Burns, Beverly-Anne Carter, Alan Cobley, Kristen Cockburn, Celia Davidson Francis, Pamela C. Dottin, Jessica Dunn, Tennille Fanovich, Sandra Ingrid Gift, Stephan J.G. Gift, Carolyn Hayle, Sharine A. Isabella, Halima-Sa’adia Kassim, Patricia Mohammed, Fasil Muddeen, Anna Kasafi Perkins, Shilohna Phillanders, Kay Hinds Thompson, Dianne Thurab-Nkhosi, Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, June Wheatley-Holness, Raynata A. Wiggins</p>

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Sandra Ingrid Gift is the former Senior Programme Officer, Quality Assurance Unit, the Vice Chancellery, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. Her publications include Maroon Teachers: Teaching the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans.

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<html><p><strong>Preface</strong></p><p><i>The Brain Train: Quality Higher Education and Caribbean Development</i> by Beckles, Perry, and Whiteley (2002) and <i>Quality in Higher Education in the Caribbean</i>, edited by Anna Kasafi Perkins (2015) are important publications that explore and document the development of quality assurance (QA) in higher education in the anglophone Caribbean. <i>The Brain Train</i> analyses the key challenges impacting the expansion of higher education in the face of growing demands for increased access at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and presents the rationale for investing in assuring the quality of higher education in the region. <i>Quality in Higher Education in the Caribbean</i> explores the progress made in QA in higher education in the anglophone Caribbean in specific areas that impact QA, and in internal and external QA. This volume, <i>Caribbean Quality Culture: Persistent Commitment to Improving Higher Education</i>, focuses on strategies being employed by Caribbean higher education institutions to go beyond providing assurance of quality to continually and continuously improve or enhance quality in diverse areas of higher education.</p><p>In considering the content of this book, I wanted to engage colleagues with significant experience working in the field of QA in higher education and who were at a stage of reflecting upon and consolidating that experience, either to help shape a mature quality management system or to improve performance, whether at institutional level or unit level.</p><p>The majority of contributions to this publication have come from colleagues at The University of the West Indies (The UWI). While The UWI is the oldest, largest and most research-focused HEI in the anglophone Caribbean, and the prominence of The UWI in the discussion is unsurprising, this may be considered a limitation of the volume. Another limitation is the dearth of indigenous Caribbean literature on the issue of continuous quality improvement (CQI) in higher education and, consequently, the need to draw heavily on the available international literature in the field.</p><p>Topics of chapters for the book were identified based on my assessment of key areas in Caribbean higher education that merited focus from the perspective of CQI. These areas include issues relating to leadership; financing; stakeholder engagement; curriculum; teaching and learning; CQI processes; external QA; education for sustainable development; research impact metrics; and recognition policies and practices. Articles were assessed using the double- blind peer-review process.</p><p>It is my hope that this book will serve as a valuable resource for QA for higher education professionals, academic and administrative staff of HEIs, officials in government ministries with responsibility for higher education, post- graduate students, researchers and the wide range of external stakeholders in the public and private sectors who have an interest in the quality of the output and outcome of higher education.</p><p>References<br>Beckles, Hilary, Anthony Perry, and Peter Whiteley, eds. 2002. <i>The Brain Train: Quality Higher Education and Caribbean Development</i>. Kingston: Board for Undergraduate Studies, UWI.<br>Perkins, Anna Kasafi. 2015. <i>Quality in Higher Education in the Caribbean</i>. Kingston: UWI Press.</p></html>

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Verlag
University of the West Indies Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9766408394
ISBN 13 
9789766408398
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
478
Herausgeber
Gift Sandra Ingrid
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