Contribution of multiple factors in the Quality of Higher education in Higher Education Institutes of Pakistan

Abstract

The study was conducted to understand the factors including quality assurance practices, stakeholders’ perceptions, institutional governance, and technological integration on the quality of higher education in Pakistan. The study used quantitative methodology and used a close-ended survey to collect the quantitative data and then the data was analyzed through SPSS. It is found ultimately that, there is a significant relationship between quality assurance practices and the quality of higher education in Pakistan as the p-value was found to be less than 0.05 through Pearson and Spearman correlation test. The strength of relationship was found to be moderate in nature. It is also estimated that, there is a positive but weak impact of stakeholder’s perception on the quality of higher education in Pakistan. The nature of relationship is significant in nature. Moreover, there is a significant relationship between technological integration and quality of higher education in Pakistan as the p value was found to be less than 0.05 but, the strength of relationship was observed to be weak in nature as correlation coefficient was below 0.05. Subsequently, it is calculated at the end that, the institutional governance and policy has a significant but positive impact on the quality of higher education in Pakistan but, the impact is strong in moderate as the value of correlation coefficient is above 0.05. Conclusively, it can be asserted at the end that, quality assurance practices, stakeholder’s perception, technological integration and institutional governance and policy, all have positive impact on the quality of higher education in Pakistan.