Dynamics of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Quality Review: A Case of National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) of India

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2019-09Abstract
The new e
ducation agenda, also known as ‘Education 2030’
, is fully captured in Sustainable Development Goal 4
(Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all)
(Statistical
Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific, 2015
)
and its corresponding targets.
Additionally
, the World Education Forum
2015 (WEF 2015) adopted the
Incheon Declaration 1 which calls for “meaningful education and training
opportunities for the large population of out
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of
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school children and adolescents, who require immediate, targeted
and sustained action ensuring that all children are in school and are
learning”.
In line with the
Commonwealth of
Learning (COL)
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intergovernmental organization
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created by Commonwealth Heads of Government in 1987 to
promote the development and sharing of open and distance learning (ODL) knowledge, resources and technolog
ies.
COL has a full
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fledged department to develop open schooling and open basic education (OBE) amongst
commonwealth countries. The peer
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to
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peer (P2P) quality review between regional open schools has been an
essential part of the COL’s mandate. Accordingly
, COL initiated P2P activities in 2018 for development of common
criteria for review of quality between NIOS and OS
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BOU
,
and after that, it organized the visit to allow the review
team to have a chance for the discussion of issues with a wide range of stakeholders thus providing the team with a
variety of perspectives on regional and open schooling development policy in the
South Asia region. After the visit,
the review team prepa
red a Peer Review Report (PRR).
The two institutions, National Institute of Open Schooling
(NIOS), India and Open School, Bangladesh Open University (OS
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BOU), Bangladesh, have agreed to conduct
qual
ity assurance audits based on an inter
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institutional audit framework. In fact, this framework was developed in
the Institutional Peer
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to
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Peer (p2p) Quality Assurance Workshop on May 2
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4, 2017 at NIOS with the members from
two organizations under the techno
logy and financial support from the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), and
subsequently, this was approved by the Academic Council of Bangladesh Open University. In addition, instrument
for quality audit was also developed. This was qualitative rather quanti
t
a
tive. During the workshop two institutes
agreed to continue their p2p activities. It was also agreed to conduct the self
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assessment of the institutes before the
external audit.
The NIOS Team visited BOU from 1
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5 August 2018 and reviewed the quality assur
ance process of
the BOU Open School using the common criteria developed jointly with the BOU team. The audit team had gone
through the self
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assessment report on BOU Open School and finally, validated the report after auditing some
parameters.
Reciprocally,
BOU team visited NIOS from 28 Feb to 1 March 2019 and reviewed the quality of the
NIOS’s open schooling process and validated its self
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assessment report prepared by the NIOS team through
presenting the exit report // Paper ID 131
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