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Ministry of Advanced Education, 2016
The Ministry of Advanced Education, post secondary institutions, and others require data for a variety of purposes, including research and analysis, as a basis for decision-making, and to satisfy accountability requirements. The Central Data Warehouse (CDW) was developed to serve those purposes by collecting a standard set of data from public…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Public Colleges, Databases
Gong, Wen; Rojewski, Jay W. – Career and Technical Education Research, 2015
A model describing the development of curriculum and coursework for dual certification programs in two-year postsecondary vocational education institutions throughout China is described. Dual certification programs allow students to obtain an academic diploma and a national vocational qualification certificate concurrently. Chinese educators and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dual Enrollment, Educational Certificates, Student Certification
Bradley, Dana Burr; Fitzgerald, Kelly – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2012
Quality assurance and accreditation are closely tied together. This article documents the work toward a unified and comprehensive national accreditation program in health education. By exploring the accreditation journey of another discipline, the field of gerontology should learn valuable lessons. These include an attention to inclusivity, a…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Gerontology, National Programs, Accreditation (Institutions)
Michelsen, Svein; Stensaker, Bjorn – Tertiary Education and Management, 2011
The article discusses the question of student participation in higher education governance at the national and the institutional levels in Norway. Two ideal-type perspectives on governance are developed in order to illuminate the Norwegian case: a democratic perspective and a market perspective. The article provides a brief overview of the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Participation, Governance, Quality Control
Overland, Martha Ann – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
More than 30 years after the U.S. ambassador was airlifted from the embassy rooftop in Saigon with the flag tucked under his arm, a new American flag is going up in the city. This one won't be flying over the embassy. The Stars and Stripes, as well as the Texas state flag, are going up at the Saigon Institute of Technology, the only Vietnamese…
Descriptors: Technical Institutes, Foreign Countries, Faculty, Two Year Colleges
Watters, Kate – Adults Learning, 2008
In April 2007 "new" Ofsted ("old" Ofsted merged with the Adult Learning Inspectorate) became responsible for inspection of a very wide range of provision, including all post-compulsory education and training for adults. Significant changes in inspection processes had already been introduced for local authority adult and…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Community Education, Adult Learning, Inspection
Raffe, David; Gallacher, Jim; Toman, Nuala – European Journal of Vocational Training, 2008
The SCQF is one of the longest-established comprehensive qualifications frameworks and is often perceived as one of the most successful. This article describes the main features of the SCQF and outlines its progress, drawing on recent studies and evaluations by the authors. It draws lessons for the EQF and for further development of national…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Foreign Countries, National Standards, Quality Control
Cowin, Bob – Online Submission, 2009
Traces the development of faith-based postsecondary institutions in British Columbia, Canada, that offer programs of a duration that is equivalent to at least one semester of full-time study. The programs they offer are not restricted to religion, but all institutions bring an explicitly religious perspective to their curriculum. Institutions are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Theological Education, Postsecondary Education, Church Related Colleges
Darandari, Eqbal Z.; Al-Qahtani, Saleh A.; Allen, Ian D.; Al-Yafi, Wafaa A.; Al-Sudairi, Abdulsalam A.; Catapang, Joey – Quality in Higher Education, 2009
The rapid growth in the number of post-secondary institutions in Saudi Arabia over the last few years necessitated the creation of a government agency for accreditation and quality assurance. The National Commission for Academic Accreditation and Assessment was established in 2004 for this purpose. Between 2005 and 2008, it developed a new…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Quality Control, Foreign Countries, Public Agencies
Distance Education and Training Council, 2007
This booklet is designed to help prospective students, counselors, public agencies, and institutions better understand distance education accreditation and how the accreditation procedures of the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC) Accrediting Commission work. It describes distance education and the accreditation process for distance…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Accreditation (Institutions), Public Agencies, Educational Quality
Young, Kenneth E. – Career Training, 1987
The author provides an overview of the types of accreditation available for postsecondary institutions and the organizations that issue accreditation. (CH)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accreditation (Institutions), Accrediting Agencies, Postsecondary Education
Ewell, Peter T. – Assessment Update, 2004
One of the most ambitious and intriguing developments in higher education in the world today is the so-called Bologna process in Europe. An initiative of the European Union, this process began in June 1999 when twenty-nine ministers in charge of higher education met to begin creating a European higher education area within which the comparability…
Descriptors: Credentials, Higher Education, Quality Control, Foreign Countries
Lafon, Valerie, Ed. – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2008
"IMHE-Info" is the newsletter published by the Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) programme of OECD. This issue includes: (1) Tertiary Education for the Knowledge Society; (2) The Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO); and (3) City-Regions in Focus. Publications of interest, IMHE News, and a calendar…
Descriptors: Governance, Educational Quality, Strategic Planning, Institutional Administration
Owen, M.; Clark, I. – 1988
A project was conducted to develop a curriculum and training materials to be used in training industrial operatives in statistical process control (SPC) techniques. During the first phase of the project, questionnaires were sent to 685 companies (215 of which responded) to determine where SPC was being used, what type of SPC firms needed, and how…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Industrial Training, Material Development
Hull, Daniel M. – 1980
A study was conducted to assist two-year postsecondary educational institutions in providing technical specialty courses for preparing nuclear technicians. As a result of project activities, curricula have been developed for five categories of nuclear technicians and operators: (1) radiation protection technician, (2) nuclear instrumentation and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Instrumentation Technicians, Learning Modules, Nuclear Energy