A fellow’s success story – Egypt implements new national quality standards for Adult Education and Learning
The Adult Education Authority (AEA) in the Egyptian Ministry of Education has just adopted a roadmap for the implementation of new national adult education quality standards. More...
Special needs students still struggle to access quality education. Here’s how teachers can help.
It is a shared international understanding that access to education is a human right that must be guaranteed for all children. Yet barriers to access and quality have made education elusive for the world’s 93 million students with special needs. More...
Qualité de la formation - 8 350 organismes de formation référencés sur le catalogue du Forco
Edubabble From Ontario
Edubabble From Ontario
Nice commentary from Jay Cross which is, if anything, too kind to the Organization for Quality Education, an organization that is, as he says, "a group of Ontario citizens up in arms over the poor quality of their public schools." Cross quite rightly criticizes this group for reliance on buzzwords, the use of straw man arguments, and unthinking aherence to a dogma. More...
Qualité des paysages : le bonheur est bien dans le pré, affirme un réseau de chercheurs
Quelque 150 géographes, sociologues, historiens, économistes, paysagistes, urbanistes et agronomes, venus de plus de 20 pays, ont débattu du 3 au 9 septembre à Clermont-Ferrand puis à Mende, de l'interaction entre qualité de vie et qualité des paysages, lors la 28e conférence du réseau PECSRL (Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape). Plus...
Arofe - Qualité des formations
Arofe - Qualité de la formation et certification des prestataires
Les financeurs de la formation (Etat, Régions, Pôle emploi, Agefiph, Opca et Opacif) doivent s’assurer, à compter du 1er janvier 2017, de la capacité des prestataires qu'ils financent à dispenser une formation de qualité. Plus...
No easy way to clarify higher education quality
Information Quality, Liability, and Corrections
Information Quality, Liability, and Corrections
Interesting article on the role and nature of quality in online research reports. The author argues that the errors themselves are not the source of any misfortune arising; "problems start when it becomes difficult to discern the intended user of a piece of information, or when users expecting one quality level encounter information built to a different quality level." A primary research paper may contain errors, and so is not intended for the general public. More...