The Asia-Pacific Quality Network (APQN) has been developed with the purpose of serving the needs of quality assurance agencies in higher education in a region that contains over half the world's population.

This is a fast-growing region, with an increasing appetite for education, and with increasing mobility of students and providers to meet that need. In turn, this makes it a region of growing and developing quality assurance agencies that needs to be able to deal with public and private providers, and with education and students that cross national borders. APQN is already helping to build alliances between agencies, and assisting countries/territories that do not have a quality assurance agency of their own.

Many hands have contributed to the development of the Network, especially the support from World Bank and UNESCO. The devotion and collaboration have brought the continuous expansion and flourish of APQN. So we'd like to take this opportunity to thank all of them.

We welcome any feedback you may have on either the Network or this website. Please send suggestions and feedback to administrator@apqn.org.

Fang Le
APQN Administrator
Shanghai Education Evaluation Institute (SEEI)
Shanghai, CHINA