A preliminary exploration of crisis management  approach on higher education and quality  assurance in Taiwan under COVID-19 pandemic:  relevance to other contexts?

Chi Hou,  Angela Yung; Hill, Christopher; Ince, Martin; Yu Lin, Fang; Chen, Emma

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A preliminary exploration of crisis management approach on higher education and quality assurance in Taiwan under COVID-19 pandemic: relevance to other contexts?

Date

2021-04-27

Authors

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract

In alignment with the Central Epidemic Center (CECC) measures and Ministry of Education (MOE) policy, Taiwan's universities took actions to ensure campus safely and continued quality of learning. At the same time, quality assurance agencies in Taiwan responded to the new mode of online instruction during the pandemic. The aim of this study is to explore the impact of virus pandemic on higher education and quality assurance. Crisis management approach and policies from central government and national accreditor are analyzed first. The actions and responses from three case universities are subsequently discussed at the end of the paper.

Keywords

Higher education; qualityassurance; crisismanagement; COVID-19

Citation

Hou, A.Y.C. et al. (2022) “A preliminary exploration of crisis management approach on higher education and quality assurance in Taiwan under COVID-19 pandemic: relevance to other contexts?,” Journal of Asian Public Policy, 15(3), pp. 374–393.