Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. Le numéro 31 (juin 2015) de Nouvelles de la Sudversion (Franche-Comté) est paru (12 pages).
Chapeau aux rédacteurs pour avoir conçu un exercice hilarant de langue de bois : Blablater sur l’accréditation [de l’offre de formation]. Suite...
This has been a rough week for higher education accreditors. Days after a Wall Street Journal article raised questions about whether the agencies are doing enough to improve (or, alternatively, shut down) institutions that struggle to retain and graduate students, the committee that advises the U.S. education secretary on accreditation took up much the same theme Thursday at its semiannual session to review some accrediting bodies. Read more...
By Meg Bernhard. The unaccredited education programs known as coding boot camps are proliferating, and gaining more students. This year the number of graduates from such programs is expected to hit 16,000, up from 6,740 in 2014, according to a recent survey by Course Report, a business that focuses on the sector. More...
The owner of the defunct Ivy Bridge College has sued the Higher Learning Commission over the institution's demise two years ago. The lawsuit, which Ivy Bridge filed in a federal court last week, alleges that the accreditor unlawfully shut down the college as part of a politically motivated "witch hunt." Read more...
By Arthur E. Levine. At the U.S. Senate prepares for the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA), accreditation stands as one of the most important tools available to strengthen postsecondary education. Accreditation ultimately sets the standard for all colleges and universities to achieve. Underlying this standard, though, is the hope that all institutions of higher education will strive to exceed the standard, seeking the innovation and outcomes that will keep our position of having the strongest higher education system in the world. More...
On the new edition of "This Week," Inside Higher Ed's free news podcast, Harper College's Ken Ender and Patricia Melton of New Haven Promise join Inside Higher Ed editor Scott Jaschik and moderator Casey Green to discuss the nuances of the movement to provide free community college. Read more...
By Bernard Fryshman. First they chopped off our hands. Figuratively, of course. The U.S. Department of Education, over the past decade, has made it clear that it expects accrediting agencies seeking recognition to judge student learning and institutional quality on the basis of rubrics, metrics and measured student learning outcomes. Read more...
By Natalie Marsh. The British Accreditation Council has gained a European accreditation endorsement this month, which new CEO Paul Fear says will help the organisation expand its international projects. More...
By Judith S. Eaton. With all the extensive consultation about the Postsecondary Institutions Ratings System during the past 18 months, all the meetings and the many conversations, we know almost nothing about its likely impact on accreditation, our all-important effort by colleges, universities and accrediting organizations working together to define, judge and improve academic quality. Read more...
By . Roughly forty miles from the bustling, historic city of Fez, a public university in a Moroccan mountain range is seeking American accreditation. With its business school, language center and computer science program already accredited by agencies overseas, Al Akhawayn University, which teaches in English, is pursing an international stamp of approval for the whole institution. More...
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