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13 avril 2014

Innovator or Protector of Status Quo?

By Adrianna Kezar. Policy makers and entrepreneurs decry accreditation for slowing innovation on campuses and reinforcing the status quo. For example, the American Enterprise Institute and American Council of Trustees have written papers and held sessions on the problem of accreditation holding back innovation. The Heritage Foundation constantly critiques accreditation. A 2013 Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions focused on questions of how accreditation is blocking innovation. And in blog postings, commentators decry accreditation for closing down for-profit providers such as Altuis Education. Read more...

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5 avril 2014

Accreditation Information and Guidance Event

Date: 29 Jul 2014
Start Time: 10:30 am
Location/venue: University of Gloucestershire
An Information and Guidance Event (IGEs) is run as a support service to subscribing institutions. Attendance is optional, and your choice to attend should be based on the institutional team’s experience and confidence in aligning their provision with the UKPSF. Attendance will be free for up to three individuals from each institution. Book on this event. More...

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9 mars 2014

University of the People gains accreditation

By Chris Parr. An online university established to take higher education to disadvantaged students around the world has received accreditation. The University of the People, which offers undergraduate degrees in computer science and business administration, has been accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council in the US just in time for its first graduating class, which is due to complete its studies in April. Although students pay a registration fee determined by the gross domestic product of their country of residence, along with a $100 (£60) administration fee for each exam they sit, those who cannot afford it can apply for a range of scholarships. More...

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2 mars 2014

Medical-Education Groups Agree to Single Accreditation System

By Nick DeSantis. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the American Osteopathic Association, and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine on Wednesday announced that they had reached an agreement on a unified system of accreditation for graduate medical-education programs in the United States. The agreement builds on a preliminary pact the three groups announced previously, in 2012. More...

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2 mars 2014

Agreement on Accreditation System for Graduate Medical Education

The associations that represent allopathic and osteopathic medical schools announced Wednesday that they had agreed to a common system for accrediting U.S. providers of graduate medical education. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the American Osteopathic Association, and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine. Read more...

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27 février 2014

Functioning higher education accreditation system in Bosnia urgently needed

European and international higher education experts have conducted an in-depth analysis of external quality assurance in the area of education in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). This Analysis of Legal Provisions is the first component of the project “Strengthening Institutional Capacity for Quality Assurance”, which represents a twinning partnership between BiH and Austria and is funded by the European Union under the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA 2011) with 1 million Euro.
The experts recognise the commitment of BiH to implement the Bologna Reforms, in particular to align the quality assurance system with the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG). More...

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23 février 2014

An Innovation Stifler?

By Doug Lederman. The view has been repeated so often that it has become an article of faith in many higher ed policy circles in recent years: Accreditation stifles innovation.
To wit:

"Accreditation is the primary barrier to innovation in American higher education. Accreditation is the biggest barrier to real competition. Accreditation is the biggest barrier to real change." (Charles Miller, former chairman of Margaret Spellings' Commission on the Future of Higher Education, in 2007.). Read more...

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23 février 2014

Tough Love for Accreditation

By Paul Fain. Everyone from politicians to provosts seems to have an opinion on how to “fix” accreditation these days. That’s because the wonky accreditor plays a big role in shaping emerging models of higher education and how they are funded. Paul L. Gaston knows the accreditation process inside and out. A Trustees Professor at Kent State University, Gaston has served as a peer reviewer for regional accrediting agencies and has long been involved in the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. In a recently released book, Gaston tackles big questions about accreditation while also giving plenty of detail about how the agencies work. Read more...

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22 février 2014

Accreditation and innovation not incompatible

By Daniel Kulinski. A major landmark in open education was reached last week when University of the People was finally accredited by the Distance and Education Training Council, a U.S. Department of Education authorized accrediting agency. The online university with 1700 students from 142 countries has been in operation since 2009 with the objective of becoming "the world’s first non-profit, tuition-free, accredited online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally for all qualified individuals, despite financial, geographic or societal constraints." Until now students have not been entitled to academic hard currency in the form of full university credits but with accreditation now in order it is likely that UoP will expand considerably and also demonstrate to the world that this educational model is not incompatible with the academic establishment. Indeed the accreditation of UoP must have raised a host of academic eyebrows and an article in Inside Higher Ed, An Innovation Stifler? sees the decision as evidence that accreditation organisations may not be the barriers to innovation in education that they have often been accused of being. More...

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21 février 2014

Die erste Non-Profit-Uni im Netz ist akkreditiert

Von Anne-Kathrin Gerstlauer. Profs arbeiten ehrenamtlich, Studenten aus aller Welt zahlen keine Studiengebühren. Die Idee der University of the People ist simpel. Nun gilt sie offiziell als Instanz.
A dream. Ein Traum. Ali Patrik Eid sitzt zu Hause in der jordanischen Hauptstadt Amman und spricht per Skype über sein Studium. Er rollt das "r", redet ganz langsam, aber die Floskeln, die sind schon typisch amerikanisch. Der 34-Jährige habe solange gewartet auf irgendetwas, irgendeine Möglichkeit. Any opportunity. In Jordanien, so sagt er, würde ein Semester 2.000 Dollar kosten. Nun zahlt er nur den Internetanschluss und die Stromkosten für seinen Rechner. Mehr...

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