Report On The Scoping Study Of Quality Assurance: In Tertiary Education In The Caribbean

Specifically, the study assesses the extent to which countries within CARICOM have been able to establish robust External Quality Assurance Agencies (EQAAs) with in their respective jurisdictions. It fleshes out the nature of agencies where they exist, particularly their jurisdiction and scope of operations, recognition status, functions and general approach, funding and human resource capacity, and accountability arrangements. It describes the current landscape and in doing so it attempts to analyze how the actual implementation has met the initial goals for the regional tertiary education quality assurance system. How has the implementation influenced institutional improvements and what is the way forward for regional tertiary education quality assurance.