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Regional Quality Assurance Framework
Overall Goal
To develop a Regional Quality Assurance Framework in order to build and maintain high and comparable academic standards in higher education in East Africa with special emphasis on the promotion of Quality Assurance (QA) and maintenance of comparable international academic standards in the East African universities.
Objectives
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To facilitate the development of effective regional quality assurance mechanisms
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To provide an integrating platform for dialogue and action to develop strong regional harmonization initiatives on quality assurance, benchmarks and credit accumulation and transfer systems.
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To facilitate and promote mobility of students, graduates, and academic staff across the region;
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To bridge the gap between disparate educational systems by coordinating initiatives of national accreditation bodies and regional bodies to maximise their successes and address their challenges;
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To ensure that East African higher education institutions become an increasingly dynamic force in the international higher education arena.
Expected output
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Comparability of qualifications awarded across the Region.
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Mechanism for benchmarking and comparison of qualifications that will allow for professional mobility for employment and further study, as well as expanded job markets.
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Greater intra-regional mobility, thereby fostering increased sharing of information, intellectual resources and research.
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Increased East African human resources regional expertise.
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Increased collaboration, information sharing and greater networking among all stakeholders in higher education in the Region.
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Cooperation between Partner States higher education systems allowing for a more coherent and unified vision for the regional higher education.
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Created common East Africa higher education and research space and a ‘dynamic force in the international arena
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Our Projects
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The IUCEA is partnering with seven European institutions in a collaborative project aimed at creating, developing and strengthening a social sciences and humanities research network bringing together scholars and institutions from the European research area with colleagues and partner institutions from a number of eastern African countries. Read on
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The Lake Victoria Research Initiative (VicRes) is a regional research initiative that offers research grants in various disciplines related to promotion of poverty eradication and sustainable livelihood and natural resources management within the Lake Victoria Basin.Read on ...
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The East African Regional Programme and Research Network for Biotechnology, Biosafety and Biotechnology Policy Development (BIO-EARN) aims at meeting the challenges of wider biotechnology, and realizing the potential of the associated techniques under local conditions in Eastern Africa. Read On ...
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