OPTIMIZATION OF THE QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEM FOR SINO-FOREIGN COOPERATIVE EDUCATION UNDER HIGH-QUALITY DEVELOPMENTt

Abstract

Against the backdrop of high-quality development becoming the core orientation of China’s educational reform, Sino-foreign cooperative education has become an important form of internationalization in higher education. Ensuring the quality of such programs is crucial for maintaining educational standards and enhancing international competitiveness. Based on collaborative governance theory and quality management theory, this study adopts a systematic literature review method to analyze existing research on quality assurance in cross-border higher education and Sino-foreign cooperative education. By reviewing relevant international and Chinese literature, the study identifies key challenges in the current quality assurance system, including insufficient policy coordination, inconsistent quality standards, limited dynamic monitoring mechanisms, and weak international collaboration. On this basis, a four-dimensional collaborative quality assurance framework consisting of policy coordination, internal institutional management, third-party evaluation, and international collaboration is proposed. The framework aims to promote the transformation of Sino-foreign cooperative education from scale expansion to high-quality development and provides theoretical and policy implications for improving quality governance in transnational higher education.