Quality Assurance in the Higher Education: Necessities and Challenges

Abstract

This study is going to be qualitative analysis of the challenges to the implementation of quality assurances in higher education in Afghanistan. The study's theoretical framework will be used and the main objective of the study is to analyze the current challenges faced with quality assurance then provide solutions for overcoming the leading challenges in ensuring the quality of the higher education system in Afghanistan. Most of the research’s findings are showing that, in today's complex and rapidly changing world where, most of the government are equipping themselves with the digital technologies, and developed governing methods. The higher education systems also, need to adopt various changes such as, observing academic freedom, distance learning, adopting the social platforms to avoid missing lectures and classes, implementing globalization in the education field, and updating the teaching methods. These wide-ranging advances and functions will enable the university lecturers, students, administrative staff, and graduates to acquire all kinds of academic abilities and skills, taking into account social, economic and cultural aspirations for realizing their responsibilities that will help them to face the existing challenges more easily and to achieve their goals and objective in a timely manner. The challenges in terms of poor quality, changes in the satisfaction in the higher education, unemployed graduates, Lack of communication within the educational institutes and industries, and scientific research against quality assurance by 'key' higher education are located in Afghanistan. Challenges in higher education institutions' administrative and academic domains have been explored in the study for the adjustment of higher education in Afghanistan.