Information Provision
NIAD-QE collects and provides useful information on quality assurance in higher education through its website, publications and forums/seminars. Those activities aim to disseminate a quality assurance culture through the higher education sector in Japan, as well as to contribute to further development of internal quality assurance activities in universities and colleges.
Information Package
The Information Package is a comprehensive selection of basic information on quality assurance in Japanese and various nations’ higher education. It contains Glossary of Quality Assurance in Japanese Higher Education, Overviews of Quality Assurance System in Higher Education, NIAD-QE's evaluation and accreditation materials.
The package serves as promoting understanding of higher education and quality assurance in Japan and related countries. It can also help higher education institutions that intend to build and strengthen international activities with overseas partners to understand foreign systems.
Glossary of Quality Assurance in Japanese Higher Education (online version)
Glossary of Quality Assurance in Japanese Higher Education (online version) is now available. The content is continuously updated as needed based on amendments to the related laws. You can browse the glossary using search words.
Online version is created based on Glossary of Quality Assurance in Japanese Higher Education (5th edition) published by NIAD-QE in August 2021. Please note that this online version may differ from the 5th edition, since the content is continuously updated as needed.
Glossary of Quality Assurance in Japanese Higher Education (5th edition) [2021]
NIAD-QE has published the fifth edition of the “Glossary of Quality Assurance in Japanese Higher Education.” It focuses on terms relating to higher education and quality assurance system in Japan. It is a bilingual book written in English and Japanese.
The fifth edition reflects trends in the higher education and quality assurance systems, revisions to the relevant legislation, and relevant stakeholders’ opinions about the glossary since we published the previous edition in 2016. It contains 179 terms (of which 22 are newly added). In addition to terms relating to internal quality assurance—which became important in the 3rd cycle of institutional certified evaluation and accreditation (since 2018)—the establishment of the Japanese official National Information Center (NIC), National Information Center for Academic Recognition Japan (NIC-Japan), within NIAD-QE in September 2019 has prompted us to add terms relating to NIC as well.
Overviews of the Higher Education and Quality Assurance Systems
▼Asia and Pacific
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Japan 2019 3rd edition  |
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Korea 2019 2nd edition (Japanese only) |
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China 2024 2nd edition (Japanese only) |
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Mongolia 2021 1st edition (Japanese only) |
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Nepal 2020 1st edition (Japanese only) |
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Sri Lanka 2020 1st edition (Japanese only) |
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Australia 2015 2nd edition |
▼Europe and North America
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United Kingdom |
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The Netherlands 2018 2nd edition |
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Germany 2014 1st edition |
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France 2017 2nd edition |
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United States 2016 2nd edition  |
Japanese versions are downloadable from HERE 
NIAD-QE's evaluation and accreditation materials
English translations of documents related to the principles, criteria and methods used by NIAD-QE in its evaluations and accreditations.
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Certified Evaluation and Accreditation (CEA) General Principles of Institutional Certified Evaluation and Accreditation: Universities 2019-2026
2018
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Certified Evaluation and Accreditation (CEA) Standards for Evaluation and Accreditation of Universities 2019-2026 2018 |
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Certified Evaluation and Accreditation (CEA) Practical Instructions for Self-Assessment 2015
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Institutional Thematic Assessments (ITA) Internationalization of Higher Education 2013 |
Other resources
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Quality Assurance for Higher Education in Japan 2012 The English translation of part of the 5th volume of ‘University Evaluation Series’ written by Dr. Akihiko Kawaguchi, Former Vice-President of NIAD-QE |
