INQAAHE 2009 Conference

The 2009 Biennial Conference was hosted by the Commission for Academic Accreditation, Ministry of Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates. The website for the 2009 Conference gives details of the event, including conference themes. The website is available at http://www.caa.ae/conference
The presentations of the key-note speakers and the closing conference speech of David Woodhouse can be found below.
Keynote 1 New Approaches to Quality Assurance in the Changing World of Higher Education. Keynote 2 Quality Assurance for Enhancement, Gemma Rauret. Keynote 3 Different Approaches to Quality Assurance and Their Impact on Efficiency, Effectiveness and Sustainability. Keynote 4 Quality Culture - Embedding Quality Assurance into the life of an Institution. Keynote 5 Quality Assurance at a Distance, Badr Aboul Ela, David Woodhouse. Closing Conference Speech David Woodhouse.
Papers Theme 1 Quality Assurance for Enhancement
Henard - Mitterle_Good governance guidelines and QA two drivers on one wheel. Jan Cameron_An exploration of key performance indicators for academic quality. DeVries-Crozier-Harris_QA of student assessment in HE. Darandari_QA as an empowerment tool for women a case from Saudi Arabia. Teshome_Kebede_QA for Enhancement of HE in Ethiopia. Akira_Kurematsu_Towards a framework for the QA of practical skill ability. Thompson_A Web-based Quality Improvement Solution for a Distributed Campus System.
Papers Theme 2 Different approaches to Quality Assurance
Helle_Student involvement in the work of ENQA and of its member agencies. Kekäläinen_Hiltunen_Financial incentives to improve quality and relevance of education in universities. Liu_Impacts of the Quality Assessment of the Undergraduate Education Policy in China. Wosik_Towards excellence in HE trough quality awareness. Kaissi_Towards a new HE QA system for Lebanon. Al-Alusi & Rizk_A continuous improvement cycle for academic programs.  Agamy_The impact of QA on enhancing program effectiveness at the university of Sharjah. Fernandez - Chung_Quality Assuring Transnational Education The Malaysian Experience. Holtzhausen - Veeran - Villa_Getting_it_right_for_social_work_in_the_Arab_world. Badr_Ian_Challenges in Implementation of Standards for Licensure and Accreditation in the UAE. Jan Roodt -L. Reinecke_A self assessment approach to quality assurance. Lorna Maria Parkins_Quality Assurance of medical education programmes in the Anglophone Caribbean. Stella_Insitutional vs Programmatic Approaches. W.S.Wong_Different approaches to Hong Kong_Mainland China and Taiwan.
Papers Theme 3 A Quality culture embedding QA into the life of an institution
Beatty_Facilitating Tertiary Educational Change in the Middle East from defining cultures to a culture of quality. Harvey_A critical analysis of quality culture. Miosi_Using the Self-Assessment Process to embed QA into the Life of an Institution. Gita Ashok Raj_QA in Medical Education at GMC. Al-Atiqi - Deshpande_Transforming HE with Six Sigma. Fisher-Stitt, Leyton-Brown and Webb_Creating and sustaining a Quality Culture at York University. Martin Carroll - Razvi - Goodliffe_Using foundation program academic standards as a Quality Enhancement Tool.  Okafor_The need to rework the QA dynamics using Nigeria and South Africa. Ritchie_How to guide HEIs that are balancing requirements from multiple accreditation agencies.
Papers Theme 4 Quality Assurance at a distance
Jara-Mellar_Internal QA and enhancement procedures for e-learning courses in UK HEIs. Rawazik-Carroll-Fox-Harvey_A new way of evaluating overseas providers. Hou - Chen_International Accreditation in Taiwan HE.