Asia-Pacific Quality Network Annual Conference, Quality Assurance in Higher Education: Expectations and Achievements, Bangalore, India, 2- 4 March 2011, The Commonwealth of Learning, Review and Improvement Model by Dr. Madhulika Kaushik & Sir John Daniel, Commonwealth of Learning // We are grateful to APQN for giving us this opportunity to talk about the Review and Improvement Model (RIM) to quality assurance that we have developed at the Commonwealth of Learning. // Although I am describing it, my former colleague Dr. Willie Clarke-Okah, COL’s Higher Education Specialist until December 2010, must take the credit for developing the model. // Now his successor as COL’s Higher Education Specialist, Dr. Madhulika Kaushik is responsible for guiding the further development and implementation of the model and is the co-author of this short presentation. // First, why did COL develop this Review and Improvement Model?