• Pian Leung (Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications)
• Jennifer Law (Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications)
• Kathy Chung (Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications)

Identifying and sharing of good practices has been an effective way to enhance quality. As the only statutory quality assurance agency in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation (HKCAAVQ) envisioned to establish an open platform that allows exchange and sharing of good practices among education and training providers. To this end, it succeeded in bidding government funding via the Quality Enhancement Support Scheme in 2014. The project is comprised of three parts: (a) Forums for higher education operators to share on local good practices as well as international perspectives on quality assurance trends and practices; (b) Workshops to develop HKCAAVQ professional staff’s competency with respect to international developments and practices in quality assurance; and (c) An electronic knowledgebase consolidating good practices identified from forums and workshops for dissemination across the sector.

The forums and workshops held to date cover international perspectives on institutional level issues of quality assurance, student assessment, student engagement, and transnational education; as well as experience-sharing by senior management of local higher education institutes in enhancing governance, QA system evolvement and QA considerations in programme development. The paper will discuss effectiveness and contribution of these forums and workshops with reference to the summary statistics and participants’ comments.

The presentation serves as a sharing of good practices by HKCAAVQ contributing to the wider national and global QA community.

Author Profile(s)
Ms Pian LEUNG, Registrar, Academic Accreditation and Assessment, HKCAAVQ
Dr Jennifer LAW, Registrar, Academic Accreditation and Assessment, HKCAAVQ
Dr Kathy CHUNG, Registrar, Academic Accreditation and Assessment, HKCAAVQ