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Solane S. Duque, Civil Service Commission, PhilippinesNorita E. Manly, Emilio Aguinaldo College, Philippines
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Accreditation, Internationalization, and World University Rankings (WUR) have increasingly shaped the higher education landscape over the last decade. Whilst these three dimensions have been previously examined in isolation, studies have suggested that there is a strong interplay among them. Applying qualitative content analysis using NVivo and QCAmap software, the study identified eight themes and 23 sub-themes related to accreditation across five international standards of the Asean University Network (AUN, ASEAN), Commission on Academic Accreditation (CAA, UAE), Oman Academic Accreditation Authority (OAAA, Oman), Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA, Europe), and Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission of Colleges (SACSCOC,USA); seven WUR themes across the Times Higher Education (THE), Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), and Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU); and seven internationalization themes based on Transnational Higher Education (TNHE) Philippine Republic Act 11448 and common internationalization definitions. The Philippine accreditation standards revealed no connections in the sub-themes of Documentation, Performance, and Funding and Financial Support within the Accreditation themes. Similarly, in the Internationalization themes, there were no connections found in the Strategy and Communication, Facilities and Infrastructure for Internationalization, and Faculty and Staff Development for Internationalization. In the Ranking themes, there were also no connections in Faculty/Staff Quality, Global Outlook and Diversity, Student Success and Graduation, Global Influence, and Income and Investments. To address these identified gaps, the study extracted indicators from the five international standards and proposed a quality assurance framework aimed at enhancing the outcomes of Accreditation, Internationalization, and World University Rankings for Philippine HEIs.
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Conference: ACE2025Stream: Higher education
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Duque S., & Manly N. (2026) Accreditation, Internationalization and World University Rankings: Basis for Quality Assurance (QA) in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the Philippines ISSN: 2186-5892 – The Asian Conference on Education 2025: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 777-794) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-5892.2026.59
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-5892.2026.59
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