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. The 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, and through continued international collaboration we have seen the APQN expand and flourish. We were fortunate in having World Bank support for capacity-building through the early years.

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

Liesha Northover
APQN Administrator, Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA)