External Quality Assurance Policy Enactment in Samoa: A Study in Relational Tension

Autor/in	Wright, Tepora
Titel	External Quality Assurance Policy Enactment in Samoa: A Study in Relational Tension
Quelle	In: Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 44 (2022) 2, S.151-165 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Wright, Tepora)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1360-080X
DOI	10.1080/1360080X.2022.2041257
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Quality; Quality Assurance; Higher Education; Educational Policy; Policy Formation; Universities; Ethics; Sustainable Development; Power Structure; Conflict; Interpersonal Relationship; Personality Problems; Samoa; New Zealand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Qualitätssicherung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politische Betätigung; University; Universität; Ethik; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Konflikt; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Neuseeland
Abstract	External quality assurance of higher education is possibly the most significant emergent policy within the higher education sector in recent times. This paper examines policy enactment in Samoa, highlighted in the relational tension between the national university and the national external quality assurance body. Research findings indicate that EQA policy enactment was characterised by tensions attributed to mutual distrust, uneven and unnegotiated power relationships, personality clashes at the decision-making level, and disagreement on policy ideas. I suggest that the reason for the drawn-out tension was due predominantly to inattention to the ethics of relationality which underpins Samoan social relations and the need to negotiate the va in the policy enactment space. Moreover, the disconnect between quality assurance policy expectations and the contextual realities of a developing university was not addressed, further heightening policy tensions. Suggestions for reframing of EQA policy are put forward to support sustainable development of quality higher education in Samoa. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01