Xingguo Zhou holds a PhD in Educational Sciences at University of Turku (Finland) and a MA in Pedagogy at Xiamen University (China). Previously, she worked in a transnational comparative research project on the quality assurance and evaluation in Brazil, China and Russia. She co-authored the project book titled Politics of Quality in Education: a comparative study of Brazil, China, and Russia (2018, Routledge). Her research interest is in the Chinese educational policies and practices on quality assurance and evaluation.