Enakshi Sengupta serves as Associate Director of the International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association, USA. Patrick Blessinger is Chief Research Scientist of the International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association, USA. Andrew Ssemwanga is the Founder and Executive Director for Family Enterprise Support Initiative (FESI), Uganda. Barbara Cozza is Department Chair and Professor of Education at St. John’s University in New York, New York, USA.

Globally higher education institutions play a very indispensable role in preparing students for the world of work by evaluating and moderating them through external examiners who also act as good reviewers. The book The Role of External Examining in Higher Education: Challenges and Best Practices has brought out the pertinence of external examiners which is a 'must read' for anyone who is allied to the higher education sector.

• PART I. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF EXTERNAL EXAMINERS Introduction to the role of external examining in higher education – challenges and best practices; Enakshi Sengupta, Patrick Blessinger, Andrew Ssemwanga and Barbara Cozza Chapter 1. Acting as external examiners in the UK: going beyond quality assurance; Amudha Poobalan, Padam Simkhada and Edwin van Teijlingen Chapter 2. Promoting access to external examining roles through professional development; Helen Kay and Juliet Hinrichsen Chapter 3. Authentic assessments and the external examiner; Mikhaila Burgess and Helen Phillips Chapter 4. Is there such a thing as ‘comparableness’? The challenges facing the EEs of higher-education courses delivered within further-education institutions; Sarah Cooper and Sara Pearman PART II. CHALLENGES & QUALITY ASSURANCE Chapter 5. A study of the effectiveness of the external examining system of postgraduate (MBA) dissertations and the mismatch between expectations and practice; Deepanjana Varshney Chapter 6. External examining the professional doctorate as distinct from the traditional PhD: differentiating and developing policy and practice; Dionisia Tzavara and Victoria L. O’ Donnell Chapter 7. External examining policies at The University of Mauritius; Fareeda Khodabocus and Henri Li Kam Wah Chapter 8. Benchmarking: a comparative case study analysis of quality assurance across the private and university sector in the UK; Kay Maddox-Daines Chapter 9. Building without a foundation: efforts in higher education to meet external examiners requirements in the absence of statewide data; Megan Schramm-Possinger, Lisa E. Johnson and Beth G. Costner