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Evelyn Garwe, Deputy CEO

Quality Assurance Agencies: creating a conducive environment for academic integrity. CHE Quality Promotion Conference 26-28 February 2019. Evelyn Garwe, Deputy CEO. “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work & give orders.

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Evelyn Garwe, Deputy CEO

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  1. Quality Assurance Agencies: creating a conducive environment for academic integrity CHE Quality Promotion Conference 26-28 February 2019 Evelyn Garwe, Deputy CEO

  2. “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work & give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast & endless sea.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands

  3. Today’s vision “If you want to build AI, avoid bureaucracy, straightjacketing, stifling innovation & excessive sanctions. Instead, inspire & capacitate all HE playersto yearn for communities of integrity.”

  4. Join me yearn for a world devoid of academic misdemeanours of any kind - AI • HEIs: without AI breachese.g: • Flawed QA practices • Conflict of interest • Plagiarism • Collusion • Disparate treatment • Falsified reporting • Flawed recruitment practices • Favour/disparate treatment • Grade inflation • Fabrication/Falsification • Plagiarism • Contract & exam cheating No AI breaches in QAAs

  5. AI in T & L, research, engagement & service Collaboration to reinforce & safeguard AI maintaining a conducive environment & a culture of AI All players commit to: transparent, fair & effective processes

  6. Flipside of dishonesty AI Underpinned by values/ideals (Ethical standards) that inform behaviour e.g. • Honesty • Responsibility • Fairness Grounded in action Academic & professional practices Measure/indicator of quality

  7. AI AI Ecosystem Students Support staff standards standards HEIs Management • Professional • bodies QAAs

  8. QAA Leadership is the key to achievement of AI

  9. Communities of AI Compromised HES Actions COGNITIVE Decisions Knowledge SYMBOLIC Information PHYSICAL Data QQAA Leadership Poor Good

  10. QAA Exemplary Leadership towards attaining AI Self evaluation Challenge the process • Collaborate • & Capacitate Set standards Model the way

  11. AI Academic promotion Research • Accreditation • Standards Student support Student assessment Self-evaluation

  12. Recognise & reward best practices Encourage continuous improvement Create platforms information sharing Model the way • Communities of integrity

  13. Collaborative & collective approach to engaging all players • Capacity building • Communication platforms • Multi-layered support & opportunities Engenders a culture of shared responsibility & obligations to AI

  14. Data Analytics Process improvement Procedural fairness Transparency Self-evaluation Informed decisions for all stakeholders

  15. Challenge the process • Common practice Integrity approach • Respectful • Never shame-based • Remediation & education • Avoid homogeneity as it stifles innovation • Avoid bureaucracy, delays or straitjacketing Compliance driven Rule-based Institutional Impersonal Coercive

  16. Central role of QAAs Promote Advise Regulate

  17. Key result areas for QAAS

  18. Sacred Task of QAAs… Develop & maintain a QA framework to guide HEIs achieve high ethical, legal & professional obligations & standards in all aspects of teaching & learning, engagement, research & development 1 2 Promote, protect & build communities of AI & discourage misconduct by creating a conducive environment based on good governance, best practice & capacity development

  19. Contact me Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education21 JM Nkomo Road, Hatfield, Harare, ZIMBABWE Tel: +263 772222298Web: www.zimche.ac.zwEmail: garweec@gmail.com

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