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Carolyn
Campbell
QAA, International Work (UK)
As an agency at the forefront of quality assurance in higher
education, we play an important role in quality assurance
work internationally. This encompasses a range of activities
relating to quality assurance around the world.
Some UK institutions offer programmes in many different countries
through links with other organisations. We review these partnerships
to ensure that the quality and standards offered to students
in UK institutions are equally available in the programmes
available overseas.
We are involved in the Bologna Process which is creating
the European Higher Education Area. Our Chief Executive is
Vice-President of the European Association for Quality Assurance
in Higher Education (ENQA). We are a member of the International
Network of Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education
(INQAAHE), the UNESCO Global Forum Task Force and of the OECD/UNESCO
Working Group established to develop guidelines for quality
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Professor
Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Linguistics and English
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
Internationally recognized for her work in the areas of linguistics,
cognition and literary theory, Nair has taught at the Jawaharlal
Nehru University, the National University of Singapore and
the University of Washington, Seattle. She has delivered plenary
addresses and invited lectures at the Indian Institute of
Advanced Study, as well as at many foreign universities including
Aarhus, Berkeley, Birmingham, Cape Town, Copenhagen, East
Anglia, Hangzhou, Linkoping, Los Angeles, Portsmouth, the
Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen, Saarbrucken, Sorbonne, SOAS,
London, Toronto, Trieste and Xinxiang, China. Her most recent
invitation is as Visiting Professor in the Department of English,
Stanford University, in September 2005.
The year 2000 saw Nair selected as a 'Face of the Millennium'
in a national survey of writers by India Today. From the time
she won, as a student, an Essay Prize in a competition organized
by La Stampa, Le Monde, Die Welt
and The Times in conjunction with the 'First International
Exhibition on Man & his Environment', Turin, Italy. She
has also been the recipient of several awards such as the
J.N. Tata Scholarship, the Hornby and Charles Wallace Awards,
and the Dorothy Leet Grant. She was most recently awared a
CRASSH fellowship (Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities
& Social Sciences) on the theme 'Conversation' at the
University of Cambridge to be taken up in 2006.
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