Impact of Quality Assurance in Delivering Fourth Industrial Revolution-ready Graduates

Strengthened Quality Assurance (QA) measures in the academe may produce graduates with the relevant fourth industrial revolution (FIRe)-ready skills of technology, language and human skills, cultural readiness, and ethical values. This quantitative, non-experimental study with 198 samples yields an achieved power of .99 for regression analysis of 10 QA areas as predictor variables.

The analysis revealed the re-engineering of the following QA areas: 1. institutional direction and targets, 2. learning facilitators, 3. teaching-learning processes, 4. learning resources, 5. laboratory set-up, 6. physical plant and facilities, 7. services to the learners, 8. community engagement and social actions, 9. organization and administration, and 10. knowledge innovation and management positively correlate to the development of the FIRe skillsets of the graduates. Additionally, the improved QA preparations in the directions and aims, educational resources, learner services, knowledge innovation and management, and greater degrees of external accreditation resulted in the production of graduates that were FIRe-ready. The study recommends restructuring QA blueprints to align with the evolving workforce demands of the FIRe landscape.