Quality Assurance & Academic Integrity

Quality Assurance Agencies around the globe

• European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) - The mission of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) is to drive the development of quality assurance by representing agencies internationally, supporting them nationally, and providing them with comprehensive services and networking opportunities. ENQA promotes the enhancement of quality and the development of a quality culture in higher education.
• The Council of Europe Platform on Ethics, Transparency and Integrity in Education (ETINED): Academic Integrity & Plagiarism 
• Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) in the UK

Resources

• Academic Integrity Charter for UK Higher Education (Oct. 21, 2020)
• Contracting to Cheat in Higher Education: How to Address Contract Cheating, The Use of Third-party Services and Essay Mills. (Second Edition, June 17, 2017)
• Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TESQA) in Australia - TEQSA is supporting providers to uphold academic integrity and address contract cheating, including through the development of education materials and sharing information about approaches to this issue, as well as working with providers and other stakeholders to support the implementation of these new laws. (source: https://www.teqsa.gov.au/protecting-academic-integrity )

AI Working groupresources

• Academic Integrity Toolkit 
• Academic Integrity Toolkit Webinar (Oct. 15, 2020)
• Assessment Integrity Webinar (May 21, 2020)
• Contract Cheating 
• Good Practice Note: Addressing contract cheating to safeguard academic integrity (October 2017)
• Amends the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011 to: create a new criminal offence of providing or advertising an academic cheating service on a commercial basis (September 3, 2020)
• Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) in U.S. - UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) and the International Quality Group of the US Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA/CIQG) have worked together to develop academic integrity resources.

Resources

• Combatting Academic Corruption and Enhancing Integrity: Inventory of Key Questions for Quality Assurance and Accreditation Organizations Inventory (2019)
• Corruption in Higher Education (2019) Irene Glendinning, Stella-Maris Orim and Andrew King
• Advisory Statement for Effective International Practice: Combatting Corruption and Enhancing Integrity: A Contemporary Challenge for the Quality and Credibility of Higher Education (March 2016)

A CHEA/CIQG series of Webinars focusing on the role of quality assurance in combatting academic corruption in higher education

• Webinar #1: Combatting Academic Corruption: What Might the International Quality Assurance Community Do? (December 12, 2016)
• Webinar #2: Focus on Plagiarism (July 10, 2017)
• Webinar #3: Quality Assurance and the Challenge of Addressing Academic Corruption (October 12, 2017)

2018 CIQG Annual Meeting:

• Countering Academic Corruption: Actions of Accreditation and Quality Assurance
  Irene Glendinning, Academic Manager for Student Experience, Coventry University

2017 CHEA Annual Conference:

• CHEA/CIQG Advisory Statement on Corruption in Higher Education: Who Is Waking Up? (Peter Okebukola)
• An Advisory Statement on Combatting Corruption: What Needs to Be Done? (Sir John Daniel)

2016 CIQG Annual Meeting Presentations:

• Quality Assurance and Academic Corruption: Can QA Make a Difference?, Michaela Martin, Programme Specialist, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, International Institute for Educational Planning
• Corruption in HE: Can QA Make a Difference?, Jasmina Havranek, Director, Agency for Higher Education and Science, Croatia
• Fraud and Corruption in Higher Education: Why, How and What Role for Quality Assurance?, Goolam Mohamedbhai, Former Secretary-General, Association of African Universities and Honorary President, International Association of Universities

2012 CHEA Annual Conference Presentations:

• Fostering Academic Integrity in Higher Education: The Reality and the Challenge - Accreditation and Academic Integrity: The International Center for Academic Integrity - Teddi Fishman, Director, Center for Academic Integrity, Clemson University

Quality International - newsletter of the CHEA International Quality Group

• Number 9: Advisory Statement for Effective International Practice: Combatting Corruption and Enhancing Integrity – September 16, 2016
• Number 7: Higher Education: A Hotbed of Corruption? A blog from the Center for International Higher Education, by Goolam Mohamedbhai, Former Secretary-General of the Association of African Universities – December 1, 2015
• Number 6: External Quality Assurance in Higher Education: How Can It Fight Corruption and Other Malpractices? by Michaela Martin – June 1, 2015

CHEA/CIQG References and Resources on Quality Assurance and Combatting Academic Corruption (https://www.chea.org/references-and-resources-quality-assurance-and-combatting-academic-corruption)

QA & AI in Canada 

• Each Province is responsible for its own monitoring of quality assurance. Click here to access a synopsis of quality assurance in each Province and Territory:  https://www.univcan.ca/universities/quality-assurance/provincial-quality-assurance-systems/