My presentation will attempt to sketch what I think the academia could consider to be a conceptual framework or model for quality assured teaching and learning that incorporates the meaning, purpose and outcome of quality assurance. This framework does not provide all the answers but it opens up the space for greater reflection and experimentation with issues underlying the various aspects of quality assurance. As an integrated model for quality assurance, it will attempt to illuminate the different aspects of the respectable scholarship on quality assurance and education. It is hoped that it will provide a valuable substructure upon which the true nature of quality assurance emerges, and is practiced in higher education teaching and learning.

Theresa Okafor
Theresa Okafor holds a PhD in Education from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Mass Communication from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. She is an international advisory board member of the Integral Economic Development Management (IEDM) programme run by the Catholic University of America. She is a Director of the Quality Assurance and Research Development Agency, Nigeria (QAARDAN) and QAARDAN UK Limited.

She served as a Board member of the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE) from 2009-2011. A founding member of the African Quality Assurance Network (AFRIQAN), Dr. Okafor is currently a graduate entrepreneur and venture member of the Haydn Green Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneur at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. Her research interests are in Quality Assurance, Employability, Teaching and Learning Outcomes.