... The MEP has been criticised for failing to: match the industry needs (e.g., Abayadeera & Watty, 2016;Borges et al., 2014;Gangaiah & Viswanath, 2014), meet students' expectation (e.g., Mahajan, Agrawal, Sharma, & Nangia, 2014;Nazeer, 2015) and equip graduates with modern competences required in the job market (e.g., Bunney et al., 2015;Sithole, 2015a;Rolla, 2016). These quality concerns are ascribed to several quality assurance factors including poor learning environment, infrastructure facilities and instructional resources (e.g., Arvindbhai, 2012;Oza & Parab, 2012;Mahajan et al., 2014), poor student engagement (e.g., Robinson, & Dostaler, 2016;Haug, Wright, & Huckabee, 2019), outmoded instructional pedagogies and service quality (e.g., Fogarty, 2010;Fouché, 2013;Nazeer, 2015;Rolla, 2016;Bush, & Glover, 2016), static skills and knowledge and theoretical nature of the programme etc (e.g., Albrecht & Sack, 2000;Bunney et al., 2015;Sithole, 2015a;Rolla, 2016). ...