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 (5th edition) [2021]

Overviews of Quality Assurance System in Higher Education

The Overview series provides information on quality assurance systems in Japan, the USA, the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia, China, Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Mongolia. The publication provide basic information on their respective countries’ higher education and quality assurance systems, and serve to promote understanding between Japanese universities and their overseas counterparts.

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.

Other resources

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