TY  - JOUR
A1  - Oulare, Kabiné
A1  - Randhahn, Solveig
T1  - Quality Assurance in Guinean Higher Education Institutions
BT  - State of Play, Development and Perspectives
JF  - Potsdamer Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung
N2  - Higher education institutions in Guinea face many challenges, including reporting responsibilities, globalisation, and massification. Institutional evaluations of higher education and research institutions in 2013 could not initiate the implementation of change processes within the institutions. Recently, however, various initiatives have been started to change this situation with the purpose to sensitise and raise awareness and capabilities for quality assurance structures in Guinean HEIs. So far, the emphasis has been put on quality enhancement in higher education, especially on teaching evaluation, curriculum development, as well as on establishing quality assurance structures. This article gives an overview of the state of play and takes stock of the activities that have been initiated to set up quality assurance mechanisms in higher education and research institutions, and presents perspectives for further development of the quality approach in Guinea. The project ‘Quality Assurance Multiplication 2017-2018’ serves as an example to describe approaches and activities in setting up stable quality assurance structures, and to strengthen and raise awareness for a ‘quality culture’.
KW  - quality assurance in Guinean higher education
KW  - national quality assurance agency in Guinea
KW  - quality assurance structures
KW  - quality evaluation
KW  - quality culture
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-493917
SN  - 978-3-86956-496-8
SN  - 2192-1075
SN  - 2192-1083
IS  - 5
SP  - 187
EP  - 204
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -