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8 mars 2015

Extra provisions for foreign diplomas

By Safure Cantürk. The Higher Education Board (YÖK) decided to impose added measures to prevent those with foreign diplomas in medicine, law or engineering from automatically receive accreditation to practice their profession in Turkey. Those with diplomas from universities outside the top 500 worldwide will need to get a passing grade in the Higher Education Examination-Undergraduate Placement Examination (YGS- LYS) university entrance examinations. More...

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4 février 2015

Ariel University advanced degrees unaccredited by Israel

By Yarden Skop. The newly-upgraded school and the panel overseeing academic institutions in the West Bank failed to receive an approval for the granting of master's degrees, doctorates and professorships. More...

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18 janvier 2015

Accreditor Grants Extension to CCSF

City College of San Francisco's regional accreditor has granted the college a two-year restoration of its accreditation status. The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) in 2013 moved to revoke the community college's accreditation, citing financial mismanagement and a wide range of other problems. Read more...

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18 janvier 2015

Another Tentative Win for CCSF

A California judge's "tentative" ruling on Friday said City College of San Francisco did not receive a fair hearing from its accreditor, the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, according to KQED News. A final decision is still pending in the lawsuit, which San Francisco's city attorney filed in a local court. Read more...

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21 décembre 2014

Getting Accreditation Right

By Paul Fain. Linda Suskie knows the accreditation process. She has seen it from both sides during her four-decade career in higher education, which has included stints as a university administrator and as a vice president at a regional accrediting agency. Read more...

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14 décembre 2014

Accreditation Panel Issues Higher Ed Act Suggestions

The federal panel tasked with advising the U.S. Department of Education on accreditation issues on Thursday released a draft set of recommendations for changing accreditation during reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. Read more...

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12 novembre 2014

Accreditation is bigger than a chicken-and-egg problem

By Michelle R. Weise. Sylvia Manning, former president of the regional accrediting agency, the Higher Learning Commission, who was also infamously embroiled in the closure of Altius Education, has published a paper with the American Enterprise Institute on—ironically—how to make way for innovation through accreditation. More...

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12 novembre 2014

The dangers of “because we have to” higher education accreditation

By Brad C. Phillips. A pervasive “because we have to” approach to higher education accreditation is contributing to the growing crisis of confidence in the value of college and the degrees it bestows. When faculty and higher education leaders declare “we complied,” it’s probably not good enough. More...

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26 octobre 2014

UNC-Chapel Hill Should Lose Accreditation

By Brian Rosenberg. The revelations from the report on the academic-fraud scandal at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been startling: More than 3,000 students over a period of 18 years were awarded grades and credit for nonexistent courses. More...

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7 septembre 2014

The Accreditation Conundrum

By Matt Reed. Are accrediting bodies toothless jellyfish, or jackbooted thugs?
Reading these two articles next to each other, it’s easy to be confused.
The first, by Andrew Kelly, suggests that accreditation agencies amount to the enforcers for a producers’ cartel. Read more...

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