Effective Leadership in Quality Assurance for Higher Education: A Literature Review

Leadership plays key role in quality assurance effort. Higher education institution needs to be led by leader who can apply his leadership effectively. This paper provides the importance of quality assurance for higher education and the effective leadership role in assuring the quality of higher education institution based on qualitative approach with literature study method. It then introduces previous studies of quality assurance and effective leadership with its attributes for higher education that can be implemented by leaders of higher education. The writer derived the literature publications from many countries especially USA and UK. As a result of the analysis of the studies selected is the identification of effective leadership attributes in assuring the quality of higher education. The findings are 10 attributes of effective leadership in quality assurance for higher education.