Foreign quality assurance systems and accreditations: its impact on higher education sector development in developing nations

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This paper explores potential application issues around foreign quality assurance systems and international accreditations in the developing nation's higher education sectors.

Taking an exploratory research approach involving a contextual and ideological analysis of the subject in literature studies, the study evaluates significant information more specifically how international accreditation and quality assurance system in developing nations higher education sector impact on development of education sector.

The study discusses how such assurance systems and accreditations have been implemented with a critical analysis of how they should be implemented to benefit the developing nation's quest for higher education development and their relative necessity in the age of globalization.

Emergent aspects including the new methods of teaching and learning that showcase the limitless potential of alternative approaches, the effects of international accreditation and quality assurance of higher education including issues of fairness and transparency, and some inherent challenges including financial, social, cultural, and potential education development problem are presented.

The study emphasizes the importance of cooperation among agency experts as an apt way to achieve desired educational outcomes.

Further it concludes that the developing nations need to reconsider and refine national frameworks pertaining to international accreditation, enabling enhanced competitiveness in the international educational domain and push for local educational development initiatives.