Professor profile

Dr. Karakhanyan holds an M.S.Ed from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in Social Sciences from Radboud University Nijmegen. Her research focuses on education policy, governance, and quality assurance, and she is the lead author of INQAAHE’s flagship publication, Global Trends in Higher Education Quality Assurance- a research project that engages lead QA and TE experts globally and contributes to the body of knowledge on quality assurance on cyclical basis – every five years. Her research background has helped her tremendously in the establishment of new and evaluation/review of existing tertiary education systems in a diversity of contexts at the global level with aim of promoting relevance, efficiency in operations and transformative power of tertiary education.