Asia-Pacific Quality Network

The Asia-Pacific Quality Network (APQN) has been developed with the purpose of serving the needs of quality assurance agencies in higher education in a region that contains over half the world’s population.

The region is defined as

all Pacific island nations and territories, New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea; all island and mainland nations and territories of Asia, including Russia, Afghanistan, the other central Asian 'stans and Iran, but excluding the Gulf states (which are covered by another network)

Its mission is:

To enhance the quality of higher education in Asia and the Pacific region through strengthening the work of quality assurance agencies and extending the cooperation between them

Since 2008, APQN has participated in the Global Initiative on Quality Assurance Capacity (GIQAC).

Members

The members which appear to be quality assurance agencies (there are also university members including several open universities) are:

1. Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA)
2. National ELT Accreditation Scheme Ltd (NEAS)
3. Australian Qualifications Framework Council (AQFC)
4. University Grants Commission of Bangladesh
5. Brunei Darussalam National Accreditation Council (BDNAC)
6. Accreditation Committee of Cambodia
7. Shanghai Educational Evaluation Institute
8. Yunnan Higher Education Evaluation Office
9. Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications (HKCAAVQ)
10. University Grants Committee
11. Joint Quality Review Committee Limited
12. National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC)
13. Badan Akreditasi Nasional Perguruan Tinggi (BAN-PT)
14. Japan University Accreditation Association (JUAA)
15. National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation (NIAD-UE)
16. Japan Accreditation Board for Engineering Education (JABEE)
17. National Accreditation Centre of the Republic of Kazakhstan
18. Independent Kazakhstan Quality Assurance Agency in Education
19. Department of Higher, Technical and Vocational Education Ministry of Education Lao PDR
20. Malaysian Qualifications Agency
21. Maldives Accreditation Board
22. Mongolian National Council for Education Accreditation
23. University Grants Commission of Nepal
24. New Zealand Universities Academic Audit Unit
25. New Zealand Qualifications Authority
26. ITP Quality
27. Higher Education Commission
28. Mehran University of Engineering & Technology
29. Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities
30. Accrediting Agency of Chartered Colleges and Universities in the Philippines (AACCUP)
31. National Accreditation Agency of the Russian Federation
32. Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance and Career Development (AQA)
33. Samoa Qualifications Authority
34. Quality Assurance and Accreditation Council of Sri Lanka
35. Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology
36. Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan
37. Office for National Education Standards and Quality Assessment
38. Commission on Higher Education
39. Center for Educational Testing and Quality Assessment
40. Center for Education Quality Assurance & Research Development (CEQARD)
41. General Department of Education, Testing and Accreditation (GDETA)

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