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McQuarrie, Fiona – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2019
The number of non-native English speakers enrolling in British Columbia's (BC's) post-secondary system has likely increased in recent decades. This has led to concerns about whether such students have adequate English-language proficiency for academic success. Since it is impossible to accurately identify non-native English speakers in BC Transfer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Language Learners, Language Proficiency, Academic Standards
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MacDonald, Jennifer J. – TESL Canada Journal, 2019
The International English Language Testing System (IELTS) standardized English language proficiency (ELP) exam is widely accepted proof of ELP at Canadian universities. The majority of Canadian universities set very similar IELTS cut scores for admission; however, these differ from the IELTS-recommended minimum cut scores. The use of the IELTS…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
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Tamtik, Merli; Guenter, Melissa – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2019
Institutional efforts to address equity, diversity and inclusion in educational settings have been often met with overwhelmingly critical accounts pointing towards well-intentioned attempts that have reinforced exclusion and inequity. A new wave of recent developments among Canadian research-intensive universities (U15) is providing a slightly…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Equal Education, Diversity
American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), 2018
With the continued support of membership, this is the fourth year that American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) has conducted 60-Second Surveys. The purpose of these snapshot surveys is to gather a broad-brush stroke perspective on practice. With that in mind, it is understood that the way the questions are…
Descriptors: College Admission, Public Colleges, Private Colleges, Proprietary Schools
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Weatherby, Chester; Kotsopoulos, Donna; Woolford, Douglas; Khattak, Laaraib – Journal of Teaching and Learning, 2018
In response to international standardized testing, many countries are examining mathematics education at virtually every level of instruction. Canada is no exception. Declines in mathematics scores in some international standardized tests have raised concerns amongst some stakeholders that a crisis may be unfolding with respect to the readiness of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction
American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), 2018
Institutional accreditation is an important factor for U.S. institutions in determining if credit or degrees from another institution will be accepted. However, accreditation as we understand it does not often exist outside the United States. This 60-Second Survey, in partnership with the Association of International Credential Evaluators (AICE)…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Professional Recognition, International Education, Reputation
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Lum, Lillie; Alqazli, Mahmoud; Englander, Karen – TESL Canada Journal, 2018
To succeed in Canadian health professions, university education programs students must initially meet a variety of program-specific and English-language admission requirements. For non-native English-speaking (NNES) students, a major challenge can be the demonstration of profession-specific academic literacy and, in particular, adequate language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Foreign Students, English Language Learners
James, Ted; McMillan, Allan – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2015
This report was commissioned jointly by the British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer (BCCAT) and the British Columbia Registrar's Association (BCRA) to create a background document to further dialogue among stakeholders regarding any proposed changes to the secondary school graduation program in BC. The scope of the report includes only…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Admission, College Applicants, Admission Criteria
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Arbeit, Caren A.; Bentz, Alexander; Cataldi, Emily Forrest; Sanders, Herschel – RTI International, 2019
In recent years, nontraditional workforce training programs have proliferated inside and outside of traditional postsecondary institutions. A subset of these programs, bootcamps, advertise high job placement rates and have been hailed by policymakers as key to training skilled workers. However, few formal data exist on the number, types, prices,…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Training, Online Courses, Conventional Instruction
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Childs, Ruth A.; Ferguson, Amanda K.; Herbert, Monique B.; Broad, Kathryn; Zhang, Jingshun – Higher Education Research and Development, 2016
The effects that admission criteria may have for under-represented groups are an important concern for programs seeking to improve access to post-secondary education. Using data from a large preservice teacher education program in the Canadian province of Ontario, we demonstrate two approaches to evaluating the effects of admission criteria. The…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Disproportionate Representation, Regression (Statistics), Postsecondary Education
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Razack, Saleem; Lessard, David; Hodges, Brian D.; Maguire, Mary H.; Steinert, Yvonne – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2014
Calls to increase the demographic representativeness of medical classes to better reflect the diversity of society are part of a growing international trend. Despite this, entry into medical school remains highly competitive and exclusive of marginalized groups. To address these questions, we conducted a Foucauldian discourse analysis of 15…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Education, Medical Students, Medical Schools
American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), 2015
The purpose of the July 2015 60 Second Survey was to gain a snapshot understanding of a handful of admission practices that were suggested as topics of interest by the membership. Data cleaning resulted in 808 usable responses representing a variety of institutional types, sizes, controls and locations, with the majority representing U.S. and…
Descriptors: College Admission, Public Colleges, Private Colleges, Proprietary Schools
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McCartney, Dale M.; Metcalfe, Amy Scott – Tertiary Education and Management, 2018
Through increased international student tuition revenue, internationalization provides public Canadian higher education institutions opportunities to offset the effects of stagnant provincial operating grants or earmarked governmental allocations. Pathway colleges, institutions that are either operated by host institutions or as private…
Descriptors: Commercialization, Higher Education, International Education, Educational Trends
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Walker, Allan; Bryant, Darren; Lee, Moosung – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2013
This article illuminates major features of high-quality leadership programmes across different education systems. We do so by focusing on capturing commonalities and variations in high-quality pre-service programmes from five differing societies, all of which are high-performing education systems. To this end, we first delineate key profiles of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Profiles, Leadership Training, Administrator Education
DeLuca, Christopher – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2012
To date, research on admission processes has largely focused on either selection trends or on determining the predictive and concurrent validity of admission indicators. Unfortunately, comparatively little research has examined the subjective processes used in the selection of personal dispositions related to inclusivity and the impact of these…
Descriptors: College Admission, Admission Criteria, Teacher Education Programs, Reliability
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