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Reviews of Literature on Accreditation and Quality Assurance
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Emmanuelle, Guernon – Online Submission, 2023
This paper presents a comprehensive review of existing literature concerning the domains of accreditation and quality assurance in various sectors. Accreditation and quality assurance play vital roles in ensuring the credibility, transparency, and effectiveness of educational institutions, healthcare facilities, industries, and other domains. This…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Quality Assurance, Educational Quality, Accountability
Higher Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Responses and Challenges
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Wang, Xuyan; Sun, Xiaoyang – Education as Change, 2022
The COVID-19 outbreak has had a significant influence on all aspects of society, and it is necessary to comprehend the responses of various stakeholders as well as the challenges that higher education has encountered in the aftermath of the outbreak. This study systematically analyses the measures taken by higher education stakeholders in response…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Balancing School Choice and Equity: An International Perspective Based on PISA
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OECD Publishing, 2019
Many countries are struggling to reconcile greater flexibility in school choice with the need to ensure quality, equity and coherence in their school systems. This report provides an international perspective on issues related to school choice, especially how certain aspects of school-choice policies may be associated with sorting students into…
Descriptors: School Choice, Equal Education, School Segregation, Academic Achievement
Prospects for Bilateral Aid to Basic Education Put Students at Risk
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Abetti, Pauline; Beardmore, Sarah; Tapp, Charles, Winthrop, Rebecca – Brookings Institution, 2011
The future of bilateral aid to basic education is at risk, placing the educational opportunities of many of the world's poorest girls and boys on the line. Some donor governments are reducing overall bilateral assistance, others are phasing out long-standing partnerships with particular developing countries and several are abandoning education as…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Opportunities, At Risk Students, Foreign Countries
Preparing Preservice Teachers to Meet the Needs of Hmong Refugee Students
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McCall, Ava L.; Vang, Bee – Multicultural Perspectives, 2012
The United States is home to more than two million refugees since 1975, with over half arriving as children. Refugees are semi-voluntary immigrants fleeing persecution in their home countries and seeking a country willing to resettle them. They may have experienced war, separation from or loss of family, and loss of home and basic needs. One…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Refugees, Hmong People, Social Studies
Globalization and Implementation of an Equity Norm in Higher Education: Admission Processes and Funding Framework under Scrutiny
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Goastellec, Gaele – Peabody Journal of Education, 2008
Most of today's societies are confronted with an increasing necessity to legitimate the organization of their access to higher education. Commonly used as a yardstick to compare societies, the level of access to higher education is often presented as an indicator of the level of development and the capacity to produce knowledge, as well as a…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Equal Education, Higher Education, College Admission