After ANQ Congress 2018, I participated
the general meeting and Quality in Education Think Tank (QiETT) Symposium of
the International Academy for Quality (IAQ) on 21 Sep 2018. IAQ is an independent, self-supported,
non-profit, non-governmental organization that is administered by a collegial
assembly of individuals who have been elected by their peers from among the
most respected, active and experienced protagonists of quality in the world. Before
the meeting, we took a group photo of all participants (IAQ Academician and
Associate Academician).
(Left 2nd row: Mr. Anil Sachdev, Mr. J
Ravikant, Prof. Azat
Abdrakhmanov, Dr. Ngo Van Nhon, Mr. Juhani Anttila and I;
Left 1st row: Mr. Janak K. Mehta, Prof. Noriaki Kano, Ms. Elizabeth M. Keim, Prof. Miroslav
Drljaca and Prof. Mohamed Zairi)
In the beginning, Mr. Janak
Mehta gave welcome speech and appreciated Ms. Elizabeth M. Keim (President, IAQ) to
lead IAQ development.
Then Prof. Noriaki Kano gave greeting remarks on
IAQ.
After that Ms. Elizabeth M. Keim presented
IAQ Founders medal to Mr. Janak Mehta for his contribution and distinguished
service to the Academy.
In Knowledge Sharing Session, Prof.
Miroslav Drijaca (Head of IMS and Consulting Dept., Zagreb Airport, Croatia)
was our new associate academician and his sharing topic entitled “Quality as a
Strategy”.
In the beginning, Prof. Drijaca briefed his country background and his industry. And then he introduced his quality journey both in job and academy.
After that he shared his own
research of TQM model for business excellence based on his practical experience
in Zagreb airport Ltd.
We were all interested on Prof.
Drijaca topic and discussed the implementation on aviation industry.
Ms. Elizabeth M. Keim presented IAQ certificate and pin to Prof. Miroslav Drijaca.
Finally, Ms. Elizabeth M. Keim led the IAQ
General Meeting to discuss the coming strategy.
However, the next IAQ General Meeting date was found overlapping both EOQ and ANQ on 25 Oct 2019.
After the meeting, we had lunch in the Congress Hotel and then went to university for QiETT symposium.
I would like to introduce some history of IAN/ANQ symposium. The 1st IAQ/ANQ Symposium 2012 in
Hong Kong which dealt with the topic of “Quality and Sustainability in Education
of Asia Oceania”, is followed by the 2nd IAQ/ANQ Symposium 2013 Bangkok.
In order to continue to drive successful work done by the IAQ Quality in
Education Think Tank (QiETT), we arranged such symposium during ANQ
Congress. We arrived the al-Farabi
Kazakh National University in Kazakhstan and took a photo in front of the hall.
I took a photo with Prof. Kano
and Prof. Miroslav
Drljaca, as well as Nepal friends.
In the beginning, all representatives were preparing the symposium and
forum. The university representative
gave a welcome speech.
Many teachers and students attended IAQ Symposium by QiETT.
Each guest introduced himself.
Firstly, Prof. Burkitbayev MM
(First Vice Rector) presented topic “Quality Assurance Practice in Kazakhstan:
case of al-Farabi
Kazakh National University”.
He said starting point of quality was “First STUDENTS”. It is process and its output is “Graduates”. They had accreditation for external quality assurance.
Ms. Elizabeth M. Keim introduced IAQ and the role of symposium on education section.
Prof. Mohamed Zairi shared his view and topic named “The Future of
Higher Education: The Disruptive Necessity for Ensuring Survival and Sustainability”.
He mentioned the foundations for
innovation such as “enablers of innovation”, “encouraging team teaching” and “unbundling
faculty roles”. Finally, he concluded
that “The students of tomorrow will need to be prepared for a higher calling. This higher calling will be to pre-empt
crises before they occur, anticipate disasters before they happen, and solve
some of mankind’s greatest problems, starting with the problem of our own
ignorance.”
Mr. Juhani Anttila shared his talk entitled “Current Quality Challenges
of the University”. Firstly, he
mentioned some current quality challenges of the universities below:
1. Problems and difficulties in universities’ quality approach
2. Universities’ challenges in the contemporary society
3. Ontological foundations
4. Internal context and QM in universities
5. Organizational learning towards excellence
6. New possibilities in the university operations, etc.
Mr. Anttila said the 4th
industrial revolution and smart society development would be a big challenge
for the universities that needed to strengths of the multidisciplinary
activities in education, research and societal cooperation with effectively
integration.
Prof. Omirzhanov E. (Director of
Center for Accreditation and Quality of Educational Programmes) gave a
presentation entitled “The quality of higher education: the main trends,
problems and prospects on the example of al-Farabi KazNU”.
He introduced al-Farabi KazNU
positioned as a modern research university with many different program in
bachelor, master and PhD. They also
developed online courses (MOOCs) using National platform MOOCS.kz.
Dr. Ngo Van Nhon was next speaker and his topic was “Educational Reform
for the Digital Era”. He said digital
age could be gradually helping to overcome the challenges students had been
facing from centuries.
He showed the maturity level among the eight principles (ISO 9000) for
the two concepts studied and they were quality management and digital
innovation. It seemed complementary. He said educational quality management in the
digital era would enhance better and open-mind.
I was the last speaker and my
topic named “Introduction of Quality Innovation Education in Guangdong-Hong
Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area”. Firstly, I
briefed the definition of quality innovation and then selected three cities’
education development in GBA and they were Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Macau.
And then I introduced the
original China innovation method named “Extenics” to all participants. It was developed by Prof. Cai Wen in about 40
year ago. Now it was very popular in
China universities and some innovation training centers.
Lastly, Prof. Azat gave closing
remark.
At the end, we had tea break to
share our idea. Prof. Azat said there were about 100 universities in Kazakhstan
but our population was only 17.8 million (2016)! It was too many universities that each
university resource would be too little.
After the symposium, Prof. Azat
drove me back to hotel and we had a short meeting.
I introduced CMA Testing and Certification
Laboratories (CMATCL) to Prof. Azat to seek if any opportunities for future
cooperation. CMATCL is my first job in
1997 and I left in 2000. However, I had
contacted with my first boss Mr. Dominic Lam unit now. I hope that it could be the first project in
Testing and Certification industry in HK under one belt one road initiative.
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